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Photo from Shutterstock. Free Alexei Navalny! Свободу Алексею Навальному! You may have seen this phrase floating around coupled with pictures of protesters from all around Russia, including gatherings from Siberia’s inhospitable climates for the sake of political voice. Such political action may not seem like anything new to the typical American since the U.S. has a robust and seemingly ever-present history of political activism and protest because of the constitution...

Russian Authorities Put A Target On Journalists As Opposition Protests Continue February 01, 2021 17:02 GMT Share share Print On the eve of a second wave of national mass protests in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, Russian police detained Sergei Smirnov, editor in chief of the independent news outlet Mediazona, outside his Moscow home as he left to take a walk with his small son. In a widely shared video, the boy can be seen watching stoically, even smiling, as Smirnov asks...

HRW Says Response To Protests Show How Rights Standards Have Plummeted In Russia January 25, 2021 13:53 GMT Share share Print Human Rights Watch (HRW) says "extreme" police brutality and "mass" arbitrary detentions during weekend protests across Russia are further evidence of "how low human rights standards have plummeted" in the country. "Ultimately this repression of basic human rights only galvanizes people and deepens their [protesters] grievances," Damelya Aitkhozhina, the Russia researche...

The regional media fraternity is mourning the passing of colleague, George Alleyne.  The Guyanese-born journalist suddenly died at his home in Barbados on Friday, January 22. He was 61 years old.  A noted writer and editor, Alleyne spent over 40 years of his career working in Guyana, Canada, and the Cayman Islands, before finally settling in Barbados.  He served at the Guyana Chronicle until 1989 when he migrated to Canada. George covered politics, sports, and trade while at the Guyana Chron...

Social Share Journalists across the Caribbean are mourning the death of colleague George Alleyne who died suddenly at his home on Friday. Alleyne, 61, who is Guyanese by birth, spent almost 40 years in the profession. The following tribute was paid by the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, with input from Bert Wilkinson and Julius Gittens. Ian George Alleyne started his journalistic career at the Government Information Service in the early 1980s. He then transferred to the state-owned G...

Certainly the incarceration not unfamiliar. remember the atmosphere here, asmany of our viewers who may be watching from elsewhere is a clean can as it were -- as they might expect in their own capitol city. >> we calculate 175 media workers on trumped up charges and be engpunished for the same sort of sent that khashoggi to -- >> and very much informs u.s. turkish relgszs. as weve just been discussing is in germany. hell soon be on his way home. this is a pickerture of brunsons emotional arriva...

Havent just been lashing out at migrants and the government increasingly theyre also attacking the press and not just the w social media can talk us through. so the number of troubling reports of intimidation violence towards the press that you can miss thats right and theyve come from some of our own deutsche avila colleagues and ive seen instances on twitter as well going through my seeds of reporters saying that they have faced verbal and physical attacks and if they havent been attacked in t...

Imperial ideology will be lattimer putins platform but when he runs for president next year he wants to deliver a strong russia to the russians as a mutual source in the present a strong russia is in the offing not another revolution a century later lenins ideology is not in the kremlin inspirational playbook consolidating power certainly is. now gunmen have stormed a private television station in afghanistans capital kabul witnesses say an unknown number of attackers entered at the building aft...

The hospital said the top floors of the hospital were shelled and they were forced to carry out the patients in their arms in stretchers, medical staff, and evacuate them under fire. i also spoke to a journalist working for a tv production company, a local one, where at 7:00 a.m. this morning, there was a triple apache helicopter strike on the eighth floor of the building where 30 of these media workers were sleeping. where they spent 24 hours a day for the past 11 days covering the conflict. mi...

For a particular e-mail address. i went back and found this lengthy, thoughtful e-mail from bradley manning. it was just before the collateral murder video was posted by wikileaks of u.s. forces opening fire on the reuters media workers and civilians in iraq and sparked this whole story. the interaction i had with bradley manning was initially as someone who had given me a tip about something. to be honest, martin, the e-mail really read as an e-mail from a thoughtful person of conscience concer...