Ahmed ZidanVerified account

@zidanism

Homo digitalis . Digital journalist, platforms/FoE. Champion of black humor & white wine. Forever a migrant. DM for Signal no. مُستقصٍ وقاصٍ ورحّال

anarchist jurisdiction, east
Joined March 2009
Born May 24

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    24 Oct 2019

    . and I studied all publicly available legal demands made by the Indian authorities to Twitter since 2017 and we found an alarming pattern of silencing Kashmir-related content that escalated with the recent communications blackout.

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    طبعاً, يجب ان يكون هناك نساء دين كما رجال دين. لكن وجود نساء دين لا يضمن أبدا تحقيق المساواة. هذه كأن تقول ان تمثيل النساء في البرلمانات يضمن تحقيق المساواة بين المرأة والرجل. يمكن ان تكون المرأة بهيّة الحريري أو سارة بيلن مثلا.

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    🚨🚨🚨 Facebook just announced Trump will be suspended until AT LEAST January 2023.

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    “We are a very polarized country, and there is limited (administration ) bandwidth, so the question we are waiting to get answered is: Is press freedom going to be a high enough priority and recognized as critical or is it going to fall a bit by the wayside?”

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    "I’ll kill you if you ever step foot into Montenegro. A bullet to the head and greetings!" reads a May 26 Facebook message sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina columnist Dragan Bursać.

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    For all my study,"I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans"

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    Mandarin hashtags trending on Weibo brought to you by my colleague : #北迁野象自助餐备食现场# (northbound wild elephants’ buffet site) #大象去哪儿# (where are the elephants going?) Thanks for the uplifting story, .

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    Since late May, Nicaraguan authorities have summoned at least 16 journalists to give witness testimony relating to a money laundering investigation into , a prospective candidate in the Nov. presidential elections.

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    With the Supreme Court's recent Computer Fraud and Abuse Act decision, check out CPJ's Q&A with 's from earlier this year about the way this ruling might impact reporters.

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    “These criminals wanted to send a message: that we should shut up. They don’t want us to write about what is happening in the Arab community, but I am not afraid of anyone. I will keep working as usual,” Arab Israeli journalist Hassan Shelan tells

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    Guatemalan ex-official’s family members sue 2 journalists under violence against women law, except that they did not specify which articles caused those alleged psychological injuries. CC:

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    Children in northern Ethiopia are in dire need of protection and assistance, says UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore . reports. 📸Nariman El-Mofty/​AP

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    Mandarin hashtags trending on Weibo brought to you by my colleague : #北迁野象自助餐备食现场# (northbound wild elephants’ buffet site) #大象去哪儿# (where are the elephants going?) Thanks for the uplifting story, .

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    Breaking: Hong Kong's Victoria Park empty for first time in 32 years on Tiananmen anniversary as police cordon off venue --

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    “They have gotten into stores of grains left over from fermentation, leading to reports of at least one drunken elephant.” This story can’t get any better.

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    15 Chinese “elephants have roamed 300 miles across southern China [for more than a year], in the longest movement recorded in the country by the animals. Researchers are mystified.” “Maybe they’re just adventurous and having a good time.”

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  19. 3 hours ago

    😂 “I didn’t hang with but he seemed like a normal person,” his photographer Tom Copi tells . Wait for the “mighty amusement” paragraph. Full disclosure: I have this picture framed in my Brooklyn apartment.

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  20. 4 hours ago

    “During the Stooges’ set, Iggy dived off the stage into the crowd, where he was lifted up by his fans and stood above them in triumph. I had a good vantage point on the right of the stage, so when he rose up out of the crowd, I just kept shooting.”

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