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Another day, another factory closure, another worker protest. That's not new in Guangdong anymore but with the Chinese New Year drawing close, people are desperate to claim their unpaid wages so they can travel home for the annual reunion with their family.
This is an otherwise regular report if not for the footage of the angry crowd pushing policemen back when they tried to stop the NBC crew from doing their work. Outnumbered, the cops could only watch timidly from a distance, quietly video-taping all the goings-on to report back to their higher-ups.Another day, another factory closure, another worker protest. That's not new in... more
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There will be some pretty red faces at work. If they do work.
The list includes names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all members up to September 2008. It also includes some people's ages, especially those under 18 - the BNP offers family membership for £40. Many entries also contain more personal comments about jobs or hobbies. That's how we know that that BNP members include receptionists, district nurses, amateur historians, pagans, line dancers and a male witch.There will be some pretty red faces at work. If they do work.
The list includes... more
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Our free speech is under attack from every possible direction. The ACLU has been relentless in its attempts to restore and protect. No wonder O'Riley and Limbaugh hate them so much.Our free speech is under attack from every possible direction. The ACLU has been... more
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An Egyptian news agency that transmitted footage of protesters tearing down a portrait of the president was fined $27,000 for operating unlicensed equipment, and its owner said Sunday he was targeted as a warning to other media.
A judge on Sunday upheld a complaint by the government against Nader Gohar, head of the Cairo News Company. The complaint came shortly after CNC broadcast footage from Al-Jazeera English in April showing the anti-government protesters.
Journalists have long complained of harassment by Egyptian security, particularly in recent weeks as they have been prevented from covering a series of events, including a deadly rock slide, a fire at the parliament building and the brutal killing of a pop singer.
"We're the largest company in our field," said Gohar. "When they hit on us, the others will behave."
CNC provides filming equipment and personnel to news agencies in Egypt then transmits their footage.
In September, a Cairo appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against a newspaper editor who wrote stories questioning President Hosni Mubarak's health and sentenced him to two months imprisonment.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International had denounced that trial, calling it part of a "pattern" by Egyptian authorities of bringing criminal charges against journalists to "chill" media freedom.
"I see this as stupidity," said Gohar about the crackdown on journalists in Egypt. "The more freedom they give us, the better the government will look. Now the government's image is very bad."
Gohar said he's lost 70 percent of his business because of limitations placed on his work by the government after the complaint was filed.An Egyptian news agency that transmitted footage of protesters tearing down a portrait... more
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President Lech Kaczynski is said to have attacked Monika Olejnik, a famed television reporter, following the conclusion of a heated television interview during last week’s European Union summit in Brussels. “You’re on my blacklist, and you’ll regret it,” he is quoted as saying by Polish media. “I’ll destroy you.” President Lech Kaczynski is said to have attacked Monika Olejnik, a famed television... more
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AFGHANISTAN'S appeal court sentenced an Afghan journalist to 20 years in jail, commuting an earlier death sentence, for distributing an Internet article that said the Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.
AFGHANISTAN'S appeal court sentenced an Afghan journalist to 20 years in jail,... more
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