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• India: Rushdie prevented from attending Kolkata Literary Meet
  1 February 2013, by siawi3

  Salman Rushdie on Friday said he was forced to cancel his trip to Kolkata as he was told that he would be bundled out in the next flight by the police on instructions from chief minister Mamata Banerjee. “I did not get”friendly advice“to stay away from Kolkata. I was told the police would put me on next plane out... The police gave my full itinerary to the press and called Muslim leaders, clearly inciting protests,” he claimed on the micro-blogging site.

• The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
  5 April 2018, by siawi3

  We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. The Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone. As if ensuring his total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release.

• Why can’t women go out for coffee in Libya?
  24 January 2019, by siawi3

  A group of women in Benghazi decided to meet up in a coffee shop called ‘Casa Café’ in Downtown Benghazi, launching an Arabic hashtag with the meaning ‘Twitter Girls Gathering’ to promote it. The next thing they knew, the moral police were raiding the café.

• Palestine - Israël: WOMEN’S BOAT TO GAZA - Report from Ann Wright, co-boat leader, retired Army colonel and former diplomat from the United States
  25 October 2016, by siawi3

  Our mission to focus international attention on the continuing illegal Israeli naval blockade through a 1,715-mile sailing journey from Barcelona, Spain, through Ajaccio, Corsica, France, and Messina, Sicily, Italy, and on to Gaza was highly successful. International media covered our trip extensively, particular media in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. Coverage in the United States was predictably low. With that said, The New York Times has printed five articles about the Women’s Boat to Gaza.

• Palestine-Israel : BATEAU DES FEMMES POUR GAZA - Rapport d’Ann Wright, co-dirigeante du bateau ; colonelle de l’armée àla retraite et ancienne diplomate pour les Etats-Unis
  25 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  Notre mission d’attirer l’attention internationale sur le blocus naval israélien illégal qui se poursuit, par voyage de navigation de 1.750 miles de Barcelone, Espagne, via Ajaccio, Corse et Messine, Sicile et jusqu’àGaza a été très couronné de succès. Des médias internationaux ont couvert notre voyage intensivement, en particulier les médias du Moyen-Orient, d’Asie du sud-est et d’Europe. La couverture aux Etats-Unis a été prévisiblement basse. Ceci dit, le The New York Times a imprimé cinq articles sur le Bateau des femmes pour Gaza.

• USA: Rights groups decry plan to inspect social media of US-bound tourists
  11 February 2017, by siawi3

  Calling it “highly invasive” and “ineffective,” more than two dozen rights groups urged the US Department of Homeland Security on Monday to scrap a proposal asking the millions of tourists entering the country each year to reveal their “online presence,” such as social media identities. It’s a “surveillance program clothed as a customs administration mechanism.”

• Nigeria, Saudi ministers meet to resolve hajj dispute
  3 October 2012, by siawi3

  Nigeria, Saudi ministers meet to resolve hajj dispute Abuja: Nigeria and Saudi Arabia held high level talks on Saturday to resolve diplomatic tensions generated by Riyadh’s decision to deport 1,000 Nigerian women hajj pilgrims who were not accompanied by male guardians. This angered Nigeria which sends a large number of Muslim pilgrims every year and it summoned the Saudi envoy to the country to seek explanation. In the past, Saudi authorities allowed women to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage in groups with male tour operators.

• Iran: Free Baquer Namazi now
  1 March 2017, by siawi3

  Baquer Namazi is an 80 years old children’s rights campaigner. He has been sentenced to ten years in prison by the Islamic regime of Iran.

• Israel Issues Orders to Intercept All-Women Gaza-Bound Flotilla
  3 October 2016, by siawi3

  Amal and Zaytouna, a flotilla of two boats with all-women crews and passengers, set sail from Barcelona en route to besieged Gaza in another maritime attempt to break Israel’s illegitimate blockade on the Palestinian coastal enclave.

• USA : L’historien français Henry Rousso manque d’être refoulé
  26 février 2017, par siawi3

  L’historien français Henry Rousso, né en Egypte, spécialiste de l’Holocauste et de l’Occupation nazie en France, a failli être refoulé récemment des Etats-Unis alors qu’il se rendait dans une université du Texas. « Ma situation n’était rien comparé àcelles de personnes que j’ai vues et qui ne pouvaient être défendues comme je l’ai été ».

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