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Blog: In China, real people vs. Internet minders – CPJ

In the next three months, users of China’s microblog weibo.com — “weibo” is the generic Chinese term for Twitter-like platforms — run by the huge sina.com ( the English site is here ) news portal, entertainment and blogging site, will have to start providing their real-world identities to the site, instead of simply being able to register.

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Russia – Free expression activist gunned down on Memorial Day for slain journalists

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: On 15 December - a day to commemorate assassinated journalists in Russia - a newspaper publisher and free expression activist was shot

Russia – Meeting highlights common challenges faced by journalists, civil society activists

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: ARTICLE 19 and the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) held their first one-day meeting to share experiences of addressing violence against journalists,

BBG Governor Amb. Victor Ashe Raises Employee Morale Issues

U.S. official Victor Ashe calls for keeping a radio facility capable of reaching China

This is an exclusive report by BBG Watch (BBGWatch.com). Republication is permitted with attribution. BBGWatch.com - December 20, 2011 - Victor Ashe, a member

Chen Guangcheng with his family

Human rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn welcomes attempt by Christian Bale to visit Chen Guangcheng

The president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, who is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), said

Killing of Chernovik founder in Dagestan must be investigated – CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

New York, December 15, 2011--Today's murder of Gadzhimurad Kamalov, founder of the independent newspaper Chernovik in the southern Russian republic of

Putin’s ‘Ceausescu moment’? Maybe not, but …… – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian premier Vladimir Putin today disparaged his critics as pawns of the United States in his first public

Blog: Impunity still reigns in beating of Oleg Kashin

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Oleg Kashin, a correspondent for the Russian business daily Kommersant, by his home on a central Moscow street, a 10-minute

Ukraine – Former president must be prosecuted in Gongadze murder, says CPJ

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: A court ruling to scrap the case after former president Leonid Kuchma for allegedly ordering journalist Georgy Gongadze's murder is a blow

Russia – Global journalists’ community joins IFJ to mark memorial day for dead colleagues

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: As the Russian Union of Journalists prepares to host its annual commemoration of journalists who have died in the course of their

Ted Lipien and Reggie Littlejohn at the Victims of Communism Memorial

CUSIB members honor victims of human rights abuses in China, stress importance of VOA and RFA broadcasts

The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) members paid tribute to victims of human rights abuses in China by placing flowers Wednesday, December 7, in Washington, D.C. at

Re-run election, says Gorbachev; support Russia’s democrats, says bipartisan group – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The United States must speak and act in support of Russia’s pro-democracy forces, a bipartisan group insisted today.

A year on from Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: China still ‘under shadow of the future’ – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): One year after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia (above) to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, Carl

Liu Xiaobo – analytic calm, activist diligence – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): China’s rulers are right to see imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo as a subversive, writes Perry Link. They fully

Can US show same ‘moral leadership’ as Liu Xiaobo? – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo still languishes in prison, while China’s government is

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