It doesn’t pay to have a voice in Baku. I learnt on Twitter that an Azerbaijani blogger was arrested today. I found that 50 had been arrested but later released. This article from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says that the youth were protesting against the annual Flower Festival, saying that it was inappropriate given the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'justice'
Global Voice author detained then released.
May 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Azerbaijan · justice
A Journalist in Georgia
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
“You must draw a white-hot iron over this Georgian land!…You will have to break the wings of this Georgia! Let the blood of the petit bourgeois flow until they give up all their resistance! Impale them! Tear them apart!” – Vladimir Lenin
So commences an article from freelance journalist Michael J. Totten who is in [...]
SOS Georgia
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
SOS Georgia is a site that tells the Georgian story in the conflict with Russia. You have to wonder what Russia has in mind.
This is an interactive map of the conflict and here are some images they’ve put together.
Tags: justice
M2’s excursion to Gobustan
June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
The M2 students went on a trip to Gobustan in the last week of school. The reasons for going are to see some petroglyphs (this is just one of many) (check out Flickr)
some graffiti engraved by a Roman soldier (Azerbaijan was the outer reaches of the Roman Empire) and the mud volcanoes. The mud volcanoes [...]
Tags: Azerbaijan · Freedom of the Press · justice
The Beirut
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Last night Chee Wan (early childhood teacher), Gillian (MYP co-ordinator) and I had tea at the Lebanese Restaurant, Beirut. It had great ambience, friendly waiters with good English and a large TV screen showing Arab pop videos that were modelled on western videos. e.g. woman singing song, showing her anger at a male who [...]
