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Headquarters of the Guinean Broadcasting Corporation; screenshot from Medi1TVAfrique's YouTube channel. In the Republic of Guinea, the media continues to bear the heavy cost of freedom restrictions since the last coup d'état on September 5, 2021. On this date, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya ousted Alpha Condé, the former president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021, who had just started his third term, thereby breaching the constitution's two-term consecutive limit. Guinean authorities initially reassured Reporters Without Borders (RSF) that they would protect and promote press freedom following an RSF mis...
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Image created from Public Domain Pictures by Oiwan Lam. License CC0 Public Domain China issued a set of guidelines for its judiciary on handling crimes related to advocating Taiwan's independence last Friday, June 21 2024. The new guidelines, jointly issued by China’s judicial and security authorities, list out acts of secession and authorize absentia trials and the punishment of “diehard” Taiwan separatists with the death penalty and no statute of limitations. Although the Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, the guidelines state that security authorities can issue global warrants...
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Screenshot of a YouTube video about Yan Dvorkin (on the image) from the YouTube Channel MRR. Fair Use. Newsmaker reported that the founder and head of the Russian Center T (which helps transgender and non-binary people) Yan Dvorkin attended the Pride march in Chișinău on June 16, 2024. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity and published it with permission from Newsmaker. In 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Center T in the registry of “foreign agents.” That same year, the Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow fined Yan Dvorkin RUB 100,000 [1200 USD] for allege...
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Image of the artist Mönza, taken from his song “Ça suffit” (“That's enough”). Screenshot from the video on the artist's YouTube channel. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, musical production is closely tied to the griots who jealously guard their art. Despite this conservative stance, artists venturing into different musical genres and fusing diverse rhythms are enriching the country's musical landscape. Home to more than 4.9 million people and nestled between the Sahara Desert and the Atlantic Ocean, Mauritania boasts a rich cultural heritage. Demographically, around 20 ethnic groups inha...
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Khally Diallo, member of the Mauritanian National Assembly. Photo used with permission. Although the Islamic Republic of Mauritania has mainly been under military rule since gaining its independence on November 28, 1960, Mauritanian politicians are determined to return it to civilian rule in the June 29, 2024, presidential elections. The Sahara desert encompasses the former French colony of Mauritania, and the Atlantic Ocean borders the west of the country, where the climate is less arid. Mauritania has only ever had two democratically-elected civilian presidents. These presidents include Mokt...
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Flags of the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Serbia. Photo by Global Voices (CC BY 3.0). This article was written by Emily Wright, a Fulbright Research Fellow affiliated with civil society organization Partners for Democratic Change Serbia, and first published by Tech Policy Press. An edited version is republished by Global Voices with permission. Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) will have a significant impact on the digital environment, both with the European Union (EU) and beyond. While the impacts are clearer for EU member states, concerns among civil society organizations (CSOs)...
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Screenshot from YouTube video ‘Religion in South Asia’ by Lentera Data. Fair use. This post by V. Priyatharshan, Rohith Upadhyay and Amin Anwar originally appeared on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. An edited and shortened version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. The 2024 Press Freedom Index revealed concerning trends for South Asian countries including India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, indicating a significant decline in press freedom levels. Sri Lanka saw a steep drop from its previous position of 135 in last ye...
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No internet in Gaza. Screenshot from a video “Can Starlink Provide Internet To Gaza?” by Interesting Engineering. Fair use. When the combination of big tech and politics failed the Palestinian people by overlooking the internet disruptions affecting Gaza, grassroots technology known as the “network tree” came to the rescue. Utilizing the humblest of elements such as buckets, smartphones, and e-SIMs, this ingeniously simple technology provided much-needed connectivity to a community fragmented by war, in the face of severely damaged infrastructure. Since the war on Gaza began in the aftermath o...
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Screenshot of Canadian vlogger Christopher Hughes (yellow hat) in Trinidad, May 2024, taken from the video entitled ‘Port of Spain Peace Walk: ‘A Mother's Cry’ Demands End to Gang Violence’ on the Chris Must List YouTube channel. Self-described “world traveller” Christopher Hughes, a Canadian vlogger who goes by the moniker “Chris Must List,” the name of his YouTube channel, is known for visiting “no-go zones” in various countries, most of them in the developing world (and of those, many in the Caribbean). His most recent stop was the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago where, in mid-M...
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A communications tower in Indonesia. Source: Flickr photo by Richard Wasserman, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Media groups, academics, and human rights advocates are opposing a bill containing proposed amendments to Indonesia’s Broadcasting Law, which would restrict the broadcast of investigative reports and LGBTQ+ content. Introduced in 2020, the bill was deliberated at the House of Representatives in 2023 and minor revisions were made on May 16, 2024. Proponents said updating the 2002 law is necessary to develop a “sustainable broadcasting industry” and to address the challenges brought about by the rise ...
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