Archive for the ‘ Human Rights ’ Category

Being An Activist

If the last three years of my life taught me something, it would be the toughness of being firm in what I believe in and standing up for this as long as it’s needed. During recent events in Egypt many people around would ask me and my friends why we cared about it so much [ READ MORE ]

Corrupted No More

One of the good things about living in small communities is that rumors usually turn out to be true. No, not the gossiping-about-people-and-their-sex-lives kind of rumors, but the ones about important news. Right after Tunisia held the revolution and in the middle of the Egyptian one, the air in Baku started to change. A wave [ READ MORE ]

A Teenage Convict

On April 30th, 2010 I was taken to the police station for participating in a peaceful protest action along with a number of other people. It was my second time (the first one was also for peaceful protest) and I knew exactly what they were going to ask me. “What were you doing there?” “Who [ READ MORE ]

Sandmonkey Arrested! You – next.

DPDRBPA3BKH6 The most famous Egyptian English-speaking blogger Sandmonkey, the one I made an interview for RFE/RL two days ago with was arrested today. First the message was spread on Twitter, saying his father tried to call him, but someone else picked up the phone and said “You are next”. I’ve also tried to call, the [ READ MORE ]

“5 years ago I was a minority opposition, today – I am the people.”

He was the first person I called when I saw news from Egypt. “I can’t talk, dear, I’m pretty teargased right now”, he said. I met him in Berlin. It was a blogger conference with participants coming from all around the world. For him it wasn’t the first official international event he was invited to [ READ MORE ]

Быть египтянином сегодня…

My interview with Egyptian blogger and my friend Sandmonkey for Radio Liberty in Russian. Soon to be published in English. Sandmonkey – никнейм, который выбрал для себя один египетский блоггер и активист, начавший вести свой блог в 2004-м году. Он взял себе ник и скрывает свое настоящее имя из соображений безопасности. На сегодняшний день sandmonkey является [ READ MORE ]

Democracy Freedom and Dignity

As the resistance in Egypt continues today, these are today’s updates. Egypt in Tweets: @alfredoboca: If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government. @hasanalikhattak: women expected to take active role in protests today after men spent the night protecting neighborhoods #Egypt #Jan25 @samihtoukan Arab people are not extremist nor terrorists.Our time has [ READ MORE ]

R-Evolution

In May 2010 I took my first trip to Berlin to join Bloggertour 2010 organized by the Foreign Office of Germany. It was 16 of us from all around the world – from Costa Rica to China. It was a group of very special people, who, despite the racial and ethnical differences, were speaking the same [ READ MORE ]

Emin and Adnan: 17 months that changed things

This post is not about me. It’s about two people, worth love and respect who had to go to prison. And came back. And their friends and close ones, who stayed on the other side and didn’t give up. *** Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade were arrested on July 8th, 2009 with the [ READ MORE ]

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