Latest posts by Jillian York from June, 2009
Morocco: Human Rights Activist Jailed for Whistleblowing
A human rights activist critical of Moroccan drug policies was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison. Chakib Al Khayari's sentence was called “a stark reminder of Morocco's tenuous and uneven progress on human rights” by Human Rights Watch. As President of the Association for Human Rights in the...
OpenNet Initiative Releases Results on Filtering in Asia
From the Great Firewall to the Myanmar Wide Web, Asia is well-known for its practices in Internet filtering. China has long taken the lead in blocking Web sites, filtering sites across the spectrum – from social to political content, pornography to Internet tools. The OpenNet Initiative (full disclosure: I'm involved)...
