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05/03/2008 > MOROCCO
Moroccans gang together for the release of the "Facebook prisoner"
Fouad Mourtada got three years in a maximum security prison for creating a fake Facebook profile page for a member of the Moroccan royal family. Now, web users all over the world are ganging together to get Fouad out of prison. Read more…
Web-users show support for the Facebook prisoner online
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31/01/2008 > CHINA
What better than to spy on the guards that spy on you
Hu Jia films his jailers passing the time with a game of cards
Last month we publicised the case of blogger Hu Jia, arrested at his home on 27 December for openly criticising the organisation of the Olympic Games. Here we publish an extract from the documentary ‘Prisoners in Freedom City', that he and his wife Jeng filmed in the year before his arrest. This is the direct testimony of a Chinese dissident under 24h supervision by secret police. Read more...
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30/01/2008 > PHILIPPINES
It's time for a jailhouse rock
An amateur
dance routine to the Michael Jackson song Thriller, staged by 1,500
Filipino prison inmates, has been viewed over 11 million times on YouTube. Part of a rehabilitation programme, the prisoners had been practicing several routines
in the hope of participating in the colourful ‘Sinulog' festival that takes
place on the island of Cebu each January. See the videos...
Video published on YouTube by byronfgarcia, 17 July 2007
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