India: American tourist gang-raped by 3 men
NEW DELHI, 4 Jun: An American tourist was allegedly gang-raped by a truck driver and two of his accomplices in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. "The 30-year-old was raped by men in a truck on Monday night. They offered her a lift and she accepted it," police inspector Abhimanyu Kumar told AFP. The incident took place...
Jordan blocks local access to 300 online sites
(3 Jun) - The Jordanian government has blocked local access to about 300 news Web sites under a new law that the sites’ editors and international journalism experts have derided as dangerous censorship aimed at quelling criticism of King Abdullah II The law, enacted in September as the opposition to King Abdullah grew more...
Laws already exists to regulate news websites
The Media Development Authority (MDA) now requires annual licensing of news websites that fit certain criteria and a performance bond of $50,000 ("MDA rolls out licence scheme for news websites"; last Wednesday). We note that this approach to regulating information and discussion in cyberspace is similar to what has already...
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