The Melted Pen

Source: BBC News

Zimbabwean police have banned political rallies “with immediate effect”, amid growing tension over the country’s disputed presidential election. (Continue Reading)

By Monica Cruz
Source: The Daily O’ Collegian
Spanish newspaper El Pais awards the Pulitzer Prize equivalent for Spanish speaking journalists. The Ortega and Gasset prize in the digital category was awarded to independent blogger Yoani Sanchez. Her merit goes beyond good writing and the blog’s popularity, which registered 1.2 million hits in February. (Continue reading)

To read the winning blog click here

Source: The Korean Times
By Park Si-soo

A group of professors opposing President Lee Myung-bak’s cross-country canal project condemned the government for putting what they call clandestine censorship on anti-canal campaigners. (Continued)

BEIJING (AP) — Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular American video Web site. (Continued)

Source: Reporters Without Borders

Blogger Abed Tavancheh released on bail
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on bail, on 11 July 2006, of blogger Abed Tavancheh. Bail was set at 50 millions tomans (about 50,000 euros). He is due to go on trial shortly, but the date of the hearing has yet to be fixed. The blogger was arrested on 26 May at Teheran University where he is a student, during demonstrations which led to clashes between young democrats and the Basij militia - students who are controlled by the authorities. (Continued)

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Source: AFP

An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said. (Continued)