Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
On December 10 Saudi blogger Fouad Ahmed al-Farhan was detained for still unknown reasons and his laptop confiscated. He could have been arrested because he has written about political prisoners on his blog; he was warned before the arrest. Mr al-Farhan could stay in jail for one month without seeing ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Blogger Abdul Kareem is in prison for one year already. He was arrested in November 2006 and sentenced to four years imprisonment by an Egypt court in February. He was charged of insulting Islam and Egypt president Mubarak (see blog post from February).
Supporters demand his release from prison and will ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
As many of you know the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin conference will be held November 5-8th, presented by O'Reilly Media and CMP. The conference should be quite interesting; just have a look at the keynote speakers and the event folder (PDF). Accompanying the conference will be an unconference, the Web2Open.
I ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I guess most of you who read newspapers, news sites on the internet or watching news on tv have read or heard about demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in Burma, now called Myanmar, over the last couple of weeks.
Protests started in August when the military government raised prices for oil ...
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