The Declaration of Internet Freedom: how the net’s minutemen plan to protect the future From Global Voices: “Five days before his arrest in September last year, a prominent Ethiopian dissident blogger, Eskinder Nega, wrote, ‘Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. […]
By now, it’s pretty apparent that the Syrian regime listens to no one. And yet, as the friends I know who have spent time in Syrian prisons tell me, international attention does matter: it might help a blogger get better treatment, evade torture. Hussein Ghrer has been held for nearly five months. A campaign, launched […]
Update 12/21: Some of the comments from donors below this post are worth reading. Also, I’ve added UNICEF to the list of organizations at a reader’s recommendation. Happy holidays, and thank you for giving to Syrians in need. Recently, a friend from Latin America expressed her difficulty in following along with what’s happening in Syria, and […]