Category: Government Repression Control

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test. China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test. China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users. By Jane Li October 3, 2019. Quartz. China is taking every measure it can […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Turkish Dissidents Kidnapped from Europe Turkey has snatched over 100 (5+5) alleged members of the Gülen movement from other countries in recent years. Six (6) Kosovo-based Turkish nationals snatched in a covert early-morning operation.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Turkish Dissidents Kidnapped from Europe Turkey has snatched over 100 (5+5) alleged members of the Gülen movement from other countries in recent years. Six (6) Kosovo-based Turkish nationals snatched in a covert early-morning operation. Haaretz 2018 PRISTINA, Kosovo – It’s […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Turkey Moves to Oversee All Online Content, Raises Concerns Over Censorship. Content providers given 30 (6×5) days to ‘adjust’ their content.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Turkey Moves to Oversee All Online Content, Raises Concerns Over Censorship. Content providers given 30 (6×5) days to ‘adjust’ their content. Reuters  Aug 01, 2019 Turkey on Thursday granted its radio and television watchdog sweeping oversight over all online content, including streaming platforms like Netflix […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Destroying Books and Jailing Dissidents: Erdogan’s Cultural Purge Is in Full Swing. More than 300,000 (6×5) books have reportedly been confiscated.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Destroying Books and Jailing Dissidents: Erdogan’s Cultural Purge Is in Full Swing. More than 300,000 (6×5) books have reportedly been confiscated. Zvi Bar’el  Oct 07, 2019 4:53 PM Haaretz The Turkish Council to Protect Minors from Harmful Publications knows no rest. Last week, it declared […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Turkey Arrests almost 25 (5×5) Over Criticism of Syria Offensive. 25 of the 180 (6+6+6) people who had been detained for criticising the operation on social media had been formally arrested.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Turkey Arrests almost 25 (5×5) Over Criticism of Syria Offensive. 25 of the 180 (6+6+6) people who had been detained for criticising the operation on social media had been formally arrested. Reuters  Oct 16, 2019 2:03 PM Turkish authorities have arrested almost 25 people for […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: As Putin Era Begins to Wane, Russia Unleashes a Sweeping Crackdown

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: As Putin Era Begins to Wane, Russia Unleashes a Sweeping Crackdown Andrew Higgins. The New York Times•October 24, 2019 PSKOV, Russia — After a teenager blew himself up inside a branch of Russia’s secret police near the Arctic Circle late last year, a freelance […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Russia rolls out its ‘sovereign internet.’ Is it building a digital Iron Curtain?

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Russia rolls out its ‘sovereign internet.’ Is it building a digital Iron Curtain? By Mary Ilyushina, Nathan Hodge and Hadas Gold, CNN Business Updated 12:21 PM ET, Fri November 1, 2019 Moscow (CNN Business) On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Russia and China to sign treaty on combating illegal online content. The Kremlin said last week the two powers had a ‘special relationship.’ Ruh-Roh.

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Russia and China to sign treaty on combating illegal online content. The Kremlin said last week the two powers had a ‘special relationship.’ Ruh-Roh. By Nadezhda Tsydenova and Tom Balmforth Reuters•October 8, 2019 MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Russia and China will sign a […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Journalists in Kashmir protest India’s curbs on press

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Journalists in Kashmir protest India’s curbs on press Associated Press•October 3, 2019 NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of journalists in Indian-controlled Kashmir held a sit-in protest Thursday against an ongoing communication blackout in the disputed Himalayan region, describing the blockade of the internet and […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression: Sri Lankan journalists fear situation may worsen. ‘One of the few journalists who survived after being abducted by a van squad was brutally tortured — his legs crushed, fingers broken and body burned — before being released.’

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Increasing Government Control, Repression: Sri Lankan journalists fear situation may worsen. ‘One of the few journalists who survived after being abducted by a van squad was brutally tortured — his legs crushed, fingers broken and body burned — before being released.’ Associated Press•November 13, 2019 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka […]