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Ed Webb

Syria's very special court - International Herald Tribune - 1 views

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syria censorship rights IHT

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  • Syria’s use of a kangaroo court to criminalize even the mildest forms of dissent and free speech
Ed Webb

Pakistan makes a Taliban truce, creating a haven - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09 - Cached
  • the government is handicapped because of its failure to offer good governance, guarantee livelihoods, and restore people's faith in the frayed judicial system
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09
       
      Notice what are seen as the sources of effectiveness and/or legitimacy.
Ed Webb

Pakistan makes a Taliban truce, creating a haven - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

www.iht.com/...17pstan.php

shared by Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09 - Cached
  • "The public will of the population of the Swat region is at the center of all efforts, and it should be taken into account while debating the merits of this agreement." In legislative elections a year ago, the people of Swat, a region that is about the size of Delaware and has 1.3 million residents, voted overwhelmingly for the secular Awami National Party. Since then, the Taliban have singled out elected politicians with suicide bomb attacks and chased virtually all of them from the valley. Several hundred thousand residents have also fled the fighting.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09
       
      Doesn't sound like the will of the people is being enforced...
Manon Latil

Starting at home, Iran's women fight for rights - International Herald Tribune - 1 views

www.iht.com/...13iran.php

Iran Women Rights

shared by Manon Latil on 13 Feb 09 - Cached
  • divorce
  • male supremacy is still enscribed in the legal code
  • Internet and satellite television have opened windows into the lives of women in the West
Manon Latil

Jury acquits defendants in Politkovskaya murder - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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Justice Journalism Russia Politkovskaya

shared by Manon Latil on 19 Feb 09 - Cached
  • in the killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.
  • Politkovskaya's probing reports on atrocities in Chechnya and abuses by Russian authorities angered the Kremlin but won her international acclaim
  • "We're glad," said defense lawyer Murad Musayev. "This is something that happens rarely in Russia. This is what I call justice."
Ed Webb

Muslim scholars decry 'fatwa chaos' - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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fatwa religion internet satellite TV

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Around the world, an explosion in the number of fatwas - pronouncements by religious leaders intended to shape the actions of the faithful on everything from sex to politics - is driving efforts by prominent Muslims to rein in the practice. That's proving a nearly impossible task, given Islam's decentralized nature and the growing number of outlets for the edicts.
  • Muslims in Egypt seeking religious guidance may now turn to satellite television and the Internet for opinions from as far afield as Indonesia - unless they follow the fatwa issued in 2004 by the Dar ul-Ulum, India's largest Islamic seminary, that ruled Muslims shouldn't watch TV. With no pope or patriarch to arbitrate orthodoxy, "it's the nature of Islamic thought to have many options," says Abdel Moti Bayoumi, who heads the Islamic Research Compilation Center in Cairo. "But there are too many unqualified opinions being spread, and this is wrong." The result is what MENA, Egypt's official news agency, calls "fatwa chaos."
  • Mainstream Islamic scholars blame TV and the Web for the proliferation of pronouncements,
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  • On Sept. 28, Al-Azhar University, which is affiliated with the mosque, announced it was setting up its own TV station to issue proper edicts and avoid "fatwa chaos," according to MENA. A week later, the Council of Senior Muslim Clerics in Saudi Arabia said it was creating a Web site to provide quick access to its rulings.
  • Adding to the tension is a rivalry between establishment clerics and a new breed of television preachers, says Amr Khaled, a former accountant turned "tele-imam" who eschews the customary robes of Muslim imams for a coat and tie. His show, "Paradise in Our House," appears on four Middle East satellite stations, and Time magazine picked him as one of its 100 most influential people for 2007.
Ed Webb

Most-wanted Nazi, now dead, found haven in Cairo - Print Version - International Herald... - 0 views

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egypt fugutives nazis

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  • Ed Webb on 06 Feb 09
     
    History haunts the present
Ed Webb

Egypt's critics have a voice, but never the last word - International Herald Tribune - 1 views

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  • For some reason, as yet unexplained, blogging seems to cross the line from speaking to acting.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 18 Feb 09
       
      Why should this be so? Discuss!
  • Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, a young blogger sentenced to four years in prison for criticizing President Hosni Mubarak and the state's religious institutions.
  • "For a second, after the judge said I should be freed, I thought there really were laws in this country,"
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  • security forces operate with impunity
    • Manon Latil
      Manon Latil on 18 Feb 09
       
      Unable to explain the unexplained, I just think that blogging, through writing, can be considered as an alternative means of criticising the government, as were pamphlets. It does not justify censorship, but since newspapers more or less use autocensorship (or is it selfcensorship?), because they are journalists, professionals, belonging to a specific group or sphere, that they have codes and ways of framing the world through their kownledge, blogs and bloggers are dangerous. They are hard to control because now the sphere of people expressing themselves has nothing to do with any writing ability (unlike people who went to a journalism school for example) or knowlegde. Through censorship, they deny the bloggers the right to be considered legitimate sources of information.
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