Coinciding with Reporters Without Borders release of the Press Freedom Index on October 20, Facebook was blocked in Uzbekistan for a day when the report listed the country as 163rd out of 178 countries. Ranked near countries such as Libya and Cuba, the Eurasian country was placed only slightly above China (171st), Iran (175th), and […]
In light of Muslim unrest in Tajikistan, national government authorities there have restricted access to the three main news providers, avesta.tj, ferghana.ru, and centrasia.ru. When interviewed, Avesta’s editor-in-chief Zafar Abdullayev criticized the political move: “This is a restriction on freedom of speech. We are trying to objectively report on the unrest in the east but […]
Two weeks ago, the site Wikileaks.org released a new batch of over 90,000 documents concerning the US war in Afghanistan that have sparked governmental outrage and increasing discussion on the importance of whistle-blowers and their possible dangers. It is not shocking then to suspect that nations which see Wikileaks as threat to national security may […]
