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In fact, Milli and Hajizade were attacked by strangers in a Baku restaurant on 8 July. The defendants went to the police to file a report about the assault, but instead of receiving medical attention, they were interrogated and charged. The trial was...
Tags: Azerbaijani, Emin Milli, Adnan Hajizade, Azerbaijan, Baku, Milli-, Bloggers
He is an Editor at HNN.] Via my old friend Scott Eric Kaufman I learned that President Obama�s visit to Japan was drawing criticism from the American right (I also learned that President Eisenhower bowed in public to a number of heads of state) due to...
Tags: Obama, Japan, Tōkyō, Bloggers, Commentators, Michelle Malkin, Akihito, Barack Obama, Politics, Japanese Imperial Family, Knights of the Garter, Knights of the Golden Fleece, Bowing, Hirohito, Handshake, Emperor of Japan, Gestures, Greetings, Parting traditions
Many international and domestic observers worry that the recent convictions of two youth activist-bloggers in Azerbaijan are sounding the death knell for the democratization process in the South Caucasus country. Twenty-six-year-old Adnan Hajizade, a...
Tags: Azerbaijanis, Yeni Azerbaijan Party, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, eurasia insight, insight archive, Eurasia, European Union, Baku, Human Rights Watch, Thorbjørn Jagland, Azerbaijan, Adnan Hajizade, Bloggers, Emin Milli
Two Azerbaijani bloggers jailed after criticizing the country's government on the internet have been adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.Youth activists Emin Abdullayev (blogger name Emin Milli) and Adnan Hajizade were sentenced...
Tags: Bloggers, prisoners of conscience
The criminal convictions of two young activist bloggers are a step backward for free expression in Azerbaijan, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the Azerbaijani government to ensure that the appeal against their conviction...
Tags: HRW, Bloggers, Young Bloggers, Human Rights Watch, Law Crime, Emin Milli
At a distinctive and stable growth rate of Blog users at an average of more than 100% within a researched 190 day cycle, the Internet should be ready for a “Blog Boom” anytime soon. Microsoft announced more than 4.5 million weblog spaces were...
Tags: Blog, Bloggers, Blogging, Microsoft, MSN, Technorati, Web Logs
“I'd like to think that everyone and everything is connected in someway. Thoughts, emotions, energy, space and time. And all those are as one primary entity and all are in a constant motion of momentum and change.” I read that on a description...
Tags: circle of entity, momentum, internet, bloggers, blogs, blog, entity, smart
Brooklyn-born great-grandmother is a proud Italian American Elvira S. Oliver, aged 99, who grew up in New York's Brooklyn, has burst into the cybersphere as probably the oldest of the world's 100 million bloggers. ...
Tags: blogs, bloggers, old age, seniors, media, internet, italian heritage, italian american, elvira oliver, new york, brooklyn
When Obama appointed Cass Sustein to be in his Shadow Government to control the White House Office of Information, was it one more step in his effort to close down free speech on the Internet? Sustein thinks that bloggers have been rampaging...
Tags: internet, bloggers, free speech, censorship, obama, information czar
In response to the increased violence, arrests, crackdowns and media blackouts due to the recent presidential election in Iran, Bloggers Unite is urging tens of thousands of bloggers from all over the world to unite for a free Iran. BloggersUnite.org,...
Tags: iran, iran elections, bloggers, iran bloggers, iran bloggers unite