The front page of the launch issue of Qaumi Salamati (National Security), the Urdu newspaper re-launched by S.M.A. Kazmi, the journalist who was arrested and jailed last year for his alleged involvement in a plot to blow up an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi. He is currently out on bail after eight months of…
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Let the record show: Kazmi is not forgotten
The arrest of the journalist S.M.A. Kazmi by the Delhi police in connection with the attack on an Israeli embassy car in the capital’s diplomatic enclave has been all but forgotten by members of his fraternity. In Bangalore on Sunday, members of Quds Freedom Movement staged a dharna demanding his release. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Iran to China, Newsweek has the story covered
More wisdom from the all-seeing, all-knowing editors of Newsweek*. On the left, the cover of the June 1, 2009 issue. Coverline: “Everything you think you know about Iran is wrong“. On the right, the cover of the October 26, 2009 issue. Coverline: “Everything you know about China is wrong“. Also read: Who, why, when, how,…
Speak out. Sign the petition. Free Maziar Bahari.
Newsweek contributor Maziar Bahari, a 42-year-old awaiting the birth of his first child, has just spent his 81st night in solitary confinement in Iran. Ahead of Iranian President Ahmadinejad‘s visit to the United States, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham makes a plea for Bahari’s freedom in The New York Times: “If Iran wants to be taken…
The top-15 media stories (& viral videos) of ’08
The strange thing about the so-called Global Village is that it has turned us all provincial. We relate to, are interested in, connect with, and remember news events with an insularity that would befuddle Marshall McLuhan. And in the process, we forget that stuff happens outside of the bubble we inhabit. The Listening Post, the…
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