Devu Chodankar, a 31 year-old resident of Goa, could land himself in jail after posting comments critical of India's newest Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook. The case highlights a trend towards curbing online free expression in the country following Modi's widely-celebrated victory.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Australia announces a controversial surveillance bill, Iraqi netizens find a way around internet blockages, and Russia targets extremism on Twitter.
Six members of the Ethiopian blogging collective Zone Nine have been imprisoned for 63 days.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Twitter frees up "blasphemous" tweets in Pakistan, an Internet shutdown in Iraq, and one of the largest DDoS attacks ever in Hong Kong.
Alexander Sodiqov, a Tajik-born PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto, was recently detained by Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security (GKNB) when he traveled to Khorog, a remote town in a politically unstable region of the country. Sodiqov, the former Central Asia Editor for Global Voices, was in Khorog to conduct fieldwork for a project on the role of international actors, states, and civil society in Central Asian conflict management.
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In this week's #IMWeekly: how the NSA hacked the Mexican President's email address, the Moroccan government increases Internet controls, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: a new move for Internet governance, Brazil's new "secure" e-mail system, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: 30-month sentence for Vietnamese blogger Quan, Iranian president Rouhani chats online with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Sudan under an Internet blackout; arrests under China's new anti-rumor laws; and more.