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/ 22 July 2005

Censored, but not silenced

When Nigerian reporter Isioma Daniel heard that a <i>fatwa</i>, or Islamic ruling, had been issued against her, she "felt calm … then realised that there was no going back". "Was I scared? I didn’t sleep too well that night," she wrote in a February 2003 article published by <i>The Guardian</i> about her case.

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/ 14 January 2005

Upcoming summit blotted out by US polls, bullets

Activists from the United States are heading to Brazil for the upcoming World Social Forum, determined to refute the widespread belief that their country has "gone Republican". They’re also in search of fresh inspiration for the fight against the exploitation of people, and natural resources. "With the re-election of Bush, a lot of people around the world washed their hands of the United States," said a member of Global Trade Watch.