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Bloggers advocating democratic reform suffer oppression

donal brown October 31, 2011

Despite the promise of the Arab Spring, bloggers world-wide are seen as threats to public order and  arrested and imprisoned for speaking out for democratic reform. Bloggers are in danger in many countries including Syria, Egypt, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. -db From a commentary by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 27, 2011, by Jillian C. York. Full story

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Cook County prosecutors claim Innocence Project journalism students paid witness to make a case

donal brown November 12, 2009

Prosecutors looking into the conduct of student journalists investigating a murder conviction for Northwestern University’s Innocence Project say they  subpoenaed students’ grades, e-mail messages and records because they believed students paid a witness to achieve a result supporting innocence. -DB The New York Times November 10, 2009 By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons CHICAGO — Prosecutors on Tuesday accused former journalism students at Northwestern University of paying a witness to record a video statement to help them

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