Showing posts with label Algeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algeria. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

New Law gags Algeria's bloggers

This came in from Politics on Line:

Algerian Bloggers Feel Threatened by Proposed Law (NYT) By day, he writes for a pro-government newspaper. After work, he becomes El Mouhtarem, author of one of the most popular political blogs in Algeria. Until now, El Mouhtarem, who keeps his real name secret to avoid retaliation by the authorities, and his readers have been free to comment on issues that few in the mainstream Algerian media would touch. While he has received anonymous death threats, there have been no attempts by the government to censor his blog, "Algérie-politique." Full Story