My Chicago associate here Wafaa Bilal's been doing a residency at RPI. As an Iraqi-born political artist, his work attracts a fair amount of attention. But his most recent project, a videogame called Virtual Jihad, was shut down TWICE (the second time got our friends at the Sancutary for Independent Media cited for specious code violations, that you can hear if you visit their site.; they've also had a hand in a wiki which gives a fairly balanced account of how things have been going.)
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Cambodian journalist assaulted for criticising courts
From the THIS JUST IN department:
I've become a bit obsessed with Cambodia lately—more to follow on that, I'm sure—and it's incredibly wonky press. So this caught my eye. Please send a letter: I'm going there this winter and don't want to get beat up too.
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13 August 2007
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UA-252-2007: CAMBODIA: An alleged assault of a journalist by the military police officer in Posat Province
CAMBODIA: Assault to journalist; freedom of expression; illegal shooting
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