Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Scrittori in carcere nel mondo


Freedom of expression: more than 600 writers in prison in mondo22.10.09 - More than 600 writers are locked up in prison for their works throughout the world. More than 200 of them are under dramatic. The complaint of the 'Writers in Prison Committee', a member of Pen Club International, meeting in the 75th World Congress in Linz, Austria. The situation is particularly difficult for women writers, especially in countries such as China, Turkey, Iran, Eritrea and Vietnam. (Source: RCD)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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Teheran: il pugno duro del regime



rises to three people sentenced to death in Iran after the arrests related to protests over the disputed presidential election. The first convicted in the riots sparked by the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani. According to the official, the defendant admitted on charges of espionage, but Amnesty International has condemned the alleged use of torture to obtain the so-called "confessions" (Stalinist-style). The other two convicts (of which were made public only the initials, AP and NA) were found guilty of links with "illegal organizations". Remain, meanwhile, hundreds of other detainees in the prisons of Tehran, were arrested after the demonstrations of the 'green wave ". Off the spotlight on international level, the machinery of repression in Iran has worked at full capacity. They are events that challenge us. And which, for our part, the activation of a visible solidarity with the courageous Iranian civil society. To save the life of the condemned and to request the release of political prisoners and "prisoners of conscience."

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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La lezione di Anna



October 7, 2006. Killing of Anna Poltikvoskaya. Is removed by force a journalist and a female symbol of human rights, democracy, respect for human dignity in Russia and Chechnya.
Three years later, legally, to the memory of Anna was not given justice (and, as happens in cases like that, who knows if it ever materializes).
is not rhetorical, however, say that the lesson of civil courage and sensitivity Ethics Anna lives in the fight global, compelling and dramatic news for the defense of freedom of press and information at every latitude and in every corner of the world.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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Giornalisti assassinati: il "caso Poveda"

El Salvador: reporter killed the author of a documentary on local drug traffickers.
The lifeless body of the journalist and documentary filmmaker Franco-English Christian Poveda was found with gunshot wounds inside his jeep in a rural district of San Salvador. According to preliminary information provided by the police, Poveda was killed with four blows to the head and chest fired by unknown assailants who would intercept the Tonacatepeque his vehicle in the area, north of the capital, according to witnesses the murders would have vanished without a trace. Poveda, 52, was filming a documentary on The Campanero, an area controlled by the 'maras' or 'gangs', the youth gangs spread throughout Central America. He had achieved some notoriety in 2008 with a previous documentary, 'La Vida Loca', which described the reality of the 'Mara 18', one of the most feared rival, together with the 'Mara Salvatrucha', presented as the result of family break-in Salvadoran society to seventeen years after the war Civil Aviation (1980-'92). Poveda says in the documentary that the "maras bring the terror," but at the same time argues that gangs are the only academic to understand the discomfort of living in the Central American country. "We understand why children of 12-13 years in a mara come and give their lives for it," he said, a few weeks before his death, the reporter in an interview with the online newspaper 'El Faro'. He arrived in El Salvador in 1980 as a correspondent for 'Time Magazine', Poveda had worked as a war photographer in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America since 1990 chose to devote himself to documentaries. (Source: "Information Safety and Freedom").