More than 50,000 18-year-olds have one month to report for service as student protests are blamed for disrupting recruitment Chile has given nearly 57,000 18-year-olds one month to report for potential military duty, saying the government needs to…
The last few weeks have witnessed a new wave of fear in Iran in the form of ‘lashing’. It can be said that it had a been a while since we last heard of lashing for freedom of speech…
Amnesty International today urged Egypt’s military leadership to immediately and unconditionally release a jailed blogger after the military appeals court in Cairo ordered a retrial of his case. Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 26-year-old blogger, is in very poor health…
Much of the criticism of «Occupy Wall Street» and the similar movements taking place — including in Hartford and New Haven — is a lack of leadership and clear goals. Those are actually reasons why this movement will continue…
Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution. It began early one morning in May, when dozens of…
Opposition group ‘Anonymous’, replaces homepages with interactive maps of Syria showing data on people killed in the government’s crackdown since mid-March. Some Syrian government websites were hacked on Monday by the opposition group ‘Anonymous’, who replaced the homepages…
Over the last week, Global Voices reports that there has been a surge in arrests of pro-democracy activists in Morocco, including of blogger and anti-corruption campaigner Mohamed Douas, rapper Moad Belghouat— whose alias is Haked (Arabic for The Vindictive or…
When Leon Panetta, the new United States defense secretary, declared on September 6 that it was only «a matter of time» before an Arab Spring-style revolution came to Iran, it seemed to smack of wishful thinking. Such predictions,…
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of the Mauritian capital on Saturday, demanding an improvement in living standards on the island. About 3,000 people, many of them young, marched peacefully through the capital Port Louis to the…
Jailed Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad, who has been on hunger strike since August 23, has been transferred to a prison infirmary after suffering serious heart problems, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday. It came after Lebanese blogger…
