freedom of expression

As the editor from Boxun, I can tell you that we receive a lot of news that is not covered by official media.

What exactly is happening in China?

Democracy in China affects every corner of the world. For example, with issues in North Korea, Burma, etc., China is playing a strong role, but it could be improved.

Follow these brave bloggers and read about the reaction of the military regime in Burma at Times online:

"Armed with small digital cameras, they have documented the spectacular growth of the demonstrations from crowds of a few hundred to as many as 100,000. On weblogs they have recorded in words and pictures the regime’s bloody crackdown, in a city where only a handful of foreign journalists work undercover. With downloaded software, they have dodged and weaved around the regime’s increasingly desperate attempts to thwart their work. Now the bloggers, too, have been crushed. Having failed to stop the cyber-dissidents broadcasting to the world, the authorities have simply switched off the internet.

Now Ko Latt and his blogging comrades have abandoned their keyboards and gone underground, sleeping in a different place every night, watching and waiting to see if the democracy movement has been truly crushed or is simply on hold. “When things were hot on the streets, we were not the main worry,” Ko Latt says. “But as the situation cools down, they will follow us. They know who we are, they know we are bloggers, and I am afraid.”"

Follow Burmese bloggers and their resistance in Ko Htike's blog as well as on Burmese Bloggers without Borders.

(Picture taken by racoles.)

A court in Egypt has sentenced three journalists and four editors to prison and forced labor.

Al Jazeera reports three journalists were sentenced to two years in jail while Reporters Without Borders speaks of four editors, who have to pay the highest possible fines and have to spend one year in forced labor. The journalists were punished for spreading "untrue information which damaged the reputation of the justice system and the justice ministry".

Find more sources on Google News and related articles in our archive.

Learn more about freedom in Egypt by watching our documentary Egypt: We Are Watching You! about the brave women from Shayfeen.com. Join the global debate in our forum: What would make you start a revolution?