Hungary: New Laws Curb Media Freedom

Source: Mike Hitchen Online

Source: Human Rights Watch Parliament Ignores European Recommendations (Berlin) – The Hungarian government has ignored recommendations by the Council of Europe to revise controversial laws that limit media freedom, Human ...
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Wide World of Webcomics: Jungle Fun of HOMINIDS

Source: Newsarama

Welcome back to Newsarama’s Wide World of Webcomics, our continuing look at the best of the web! Today, we take a trip back in time for a fantasy story set in a prehistoric world of high adventure. Jordan Kotzebue ...
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Colombians need to debate the conflict, but not as a condition of Langlois' freedom, Massimo Di Ricco

Source: openDemocracy

Almost a week after French journalist Romeo Langlois was captured by the FARC during an anti-drug operation in the south of the country, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez commented on the case in a local radio show. Uribe defined Langlois a ...
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Source: Mansfield News Journal

MANSFIELD -- Downtown landowners and business leaders had mixed reactions Wednesday to the city's...- 6:56 am MANSFIELD -- The director of the Mansfield Art Center said a recent act of self-censorship was...- 6:53 am OXFORD (AP) -- Pittsburgh S ...
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US rights report criticizes Turkey’s judiciary, media freedom

Source: Today's Zaman

Chronicling developments in nearly 200 countries, the rights report said broad laws against terrorism and threats to the state, political pressure, and inadequacies in the judicial system in Turkey limited access to justice, as did lengthy pretrial det ...
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Vow of silence at Blakelock speaks volumes against trans/homophobia

Source: InsideHalton.com

Please respect my silence for those silenced by homophobia — that message was clear and proudly displayed on the chests of Blakelock students, recently. On Friday, April 20, 107 students honoured the Day of Silence, an international event dr ...
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Arch Tait on translating Russian works: Publishing in Russia 2012

Source: Publishers Weekly

Winner of the inaugural English PEN Literature in Translation award in 2010 for Anna Politkovskaya's Putin's Russia (Harvill Press), Arch Tait has worked with many well-known Russian writers including Ludmila Ulitskaya, Vladimir Makanin, Victor Pele ...
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Drifting gods

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position By Tabish Khair , Fourth Estate, Rs 450 Is it possible to like and not like a book at the same time? There is a candour in the way Tabish Khair chooses to tell his story tha ...
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Challenging preconceptions about society

Source: Mail and Guardian

If we ever underestimated the power of art to manifest beyond its material, the events of this past week have certainly convinced us otherwise. Modern and contemporary art has always been controversial; indeed, one might say that modern art was b ...
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