Canadians are die here every week and this is what we are dieing for:
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| Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? |
| from the that's-a-bit-harsh-i-think dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday February 02, @15:21 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/02/1915253 |
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mrogers writes "A journalism student in Afghanistan has been [0]sentenced
to death by a Sharia court for downloading and sharing a report
criticizing the treatment of women in some Islamic countries. The student
was accused of blasphemy and tried without representation. According to
Reporters Without Borders, [1]sixty people are currently in jail
worldwide for criticizing governments online, fifty of them in China, but
this may be the first time someone has been sentenced to death for using
the internet. Internet censorship [2]is on the rise worldwide, according
to [3]The OpenNet Initiative."

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Links:
0. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sentenced-to-death-afghan-who-dared-to-read-about-womens-rights-775972.html
1. http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=675
2. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1dbb5faa-d268-11db-a7c0-000b5df10621.html
3. http://opennet.net/