26/03/2013 / CHINA
Stop Photoshopping officials into porn, authorities ask blackmailers
What to do when government officials and company bosses are repeatedly blackmailed by people who have Photoshopped their faces into pornographic pictures? Apparently, put up big billboards to tell them that this isn’t cool. Read more...
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25/03/2013 / SPAIN
Spaniards pushed into ‘economic exile’ tell their stories
The economic crisis has forced many young Spaniards to emigrate to find work. Three of them – one in Morocco, one in the United Kingdom, a third who is planning on leaving Spain soon – tell us their stories. Read more...
25/03/2013 / UKRAINE
Striking videos of Ukraine's snow-hit capital, Kiev
Ukraine is dealing with the aftermath of a massive blizzard, during which a month's worth of snow fell in just 24 hours. Residents of the capital Kiev have been using their cameras and mobile phones to capture the the ensuing chaos. Watch videos…
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22/03/2013 / IRAQ
Prisoners clubbed with batons at Abu Ghraib prison
Baghdad Central Prison, previously known as Abu Ghraib, continues to be rocked by prisoner abuse scandals. An amateur video showing inmates being beaten up has been leaked onto the Internet. These prisoners have been described as Sunnis. This has fed sentiments by Sunnis that they are being discriminated against in a country largely ruled by Shiites, and which continues to be shaken by civil unrest. Read more...
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21/03/2013 / BURMA
Buddhist-Muslim violence continues for third day in Burma
Photos and videos from the central Burmese town of Meikhtila show rioting and attacks against Muslim-owned businesses, in the country’s worst communal violence since last year's clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in the eastern part of the country. The ongoing unrest has has displaced thousands and left at least 20 people dead, according to a member of parliament from Meikhtila District. Read more…
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20/03/2013 / CHINA
China locks Tibetan monks in monastery for 'political re-education'
Since March 17, the Tongkyap monastery, located in northeast Tibet, has been put on lockdown by Chinese authorities. Hundreds of monks have been kept inside in order to undergo “political re-education.” The reason: one of the monks at this monastery wrote a book about the spate of self-immolations by Tibetan monks that started in 2008, and which continues today. Read more...
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19/03/2013 / SYRIA
Tunisian architect turned jihadist talks of holy war in Syria
Abou Ayman is a young Tunisian architect who left everything behind to wage holy war thousands of kilometers from his home. He is one of several thousand foreign jihadists currently fighting against the Syrian regime. Read more...
19/03/2013 / LIBYA
Sarkozy 'still a hero' in Libya
Two years after France’s military intervention in Libya, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is on a visit to Tripoli to meet with the Libyan prime minister. Our Observers on the ground explain how the Libyan population perceives Sarkozy and France today, in a country still scarred by the revolution. Read more…
19/03/2013 / VIETNAM
Vietnamese mourners protest over “impunity” of local elites
Public protests are rare in the authoritarian country of Vietnam, let alone one in which thousands of people take to the streets. Yet amateur videos posted on YouTube and Facebook show that’s exactly what took place on Sunday in the small northern town of Vinh Yen where mourners clashed with riot police during a funeral procession for a man who, his family claims, was killed by the son-in-law of a local official. Read more…
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18/03/2013 / EGYPT - LIBYA
Libyan militia accused of torturing Christian Copts
Egyptian Copts are up in arms following the suspicious death last Monday of a Coptic Christian in a Libyan prison. The man was part of a group of Egyptian Copt shopkeepers who have been living in Libya for the last few years and who were arrested by a Benghazi militia several days prior for allegedly “proselytizing”. Read more…
