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This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests. UPDATE: Razan Ghazzawi was released on Saturday along with her female colleagues. At the time of writing these lines Razan's male colleagues were still in custody. Syrian security forces have arrested Syrian blogger and freedom of speech advocate Razan Ghazzawi on Thursday during a raid [...]

This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011/2012. Syrian Blogger and Freedom of Speech advocate Razan Ghazzawi was released on Saturday along with her female colleagues. The news came via Razan's sister, who tweeted earlier this evening: @NadineGhazzawi: Sister is home but she can't leave the country anymore…they won't allow her. Free [...]

Michael Harris: Should councils be using public money for libel action? THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

~ DEAR BINKY-Minions.. 4 year-old badly-done root canal now super-inflamed. Prayers, please. News-mongering on the back-burner for a day or three, whilst Binks distracts himself to reduce pain. Dentist tomorrer. No, She-Binks will not take me out back of the barn for the “Old Yeller Treatment”, though I occasionally ask at times like these. Pass [...]

One Down, ??? To Go… “A study by the University of Sherbrooke shows there have been 12 honour-killing victims in Canada since 1999 compared with three between 1954 and 1983.” ~ ITEM: Honour killings on the rise in Canada: Study ~ ITEM: Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings; “Honor” Murders – Why the Perps Get off Easy [...]

Reliable sources, including one Iranian journalist, have told Global Voices that several Iranian activists and journalists have received an email threatening that they will be punished according to the “Islamic Punishment” law of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The subject of the email is “warning” [hoshdar in Persian] and the message says they have information [...]

‎~ TOOTH OF EVIL UPDATE, (Rabbi Burns poem below thanks to pre-dead minion Scott Geiger)… The Binks asks prayers now for healing, and for relief of inflamed lymph nodes in my jaw, neck, ear, and elsewhere. Wow. The following is hardly an exaggeration, though minus modern dentistry & antibiotics as below, I can scarce imagine… [...]

Padraig Reidy: Trevor Kavanagh, the Sun and press freedom THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

In China, all conventional media outlets are under the direct leadership of Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A CCP secretary is planted in every media organization to oversee the content and give direction to the editors and reporters what to highlight and what to censor. Same arrangement would be introduced to the governing of micro-blogging platforms [...]

~ AFTERNOON UPDATE– Antibiotics– check. Tooth-pulling appointment in two days– check. Prayers from online buds & fam– check. MMORPG, YouTube, audio books, and non-recreational drugs for buffer between Binks & reality– check. ~ ~ HEY, PRE-DEAD minions.. Binks saw dentist #1, now off to dentist #2.. will know by early afternoon what kinda surgery/ treatment [...]