1 year ago
Does this guy look like he fears for his safety?
“Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis (by terrydatiger)”
1 year ago
Egyptian Blogger Continues Prison Hunger Strike
Maikel Nabil Sanad was sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing Egypt’s military. Today he enters the 42nd day of a hunger strike.
Via Index on Censorship:
It’s Maikel Nabil Sanad’s 26th birthday but he is in no celebratory mood. When I arrive at El Marg prison north of Cairo during visiting hours on Saturday 1 October, I can barely hide my shock at seeing his bony physique. Maikel is wearing a wrinkled blue track suit and on his head is a baseball cap worn backwards in a sign of rebellion. It is clear that Maikel is in extremely frail health. He attempts to stand up to greet me but almost immediately falls back into his chair in sheer exhaustion. That’s because today, Maikel tells me, is also the 40 day of his hunger strike — one that he had hoped would draw public attention to his plight and force the ruling military council to reconsider what he describes as the military’s “discriminatory “policies.
Sanad’s crime was accusing the military of submitting female protestors to “virginity tests”, a charge a senior military general later admitted was true, according to CNN.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
1 year ago
Moving photo of a captured loyalist soldier in #Libya (via http://yfrog.com/g0zg9cej and @bencnn)
1 year ago
EXPLOSION at a French NUCLEAR power station!
After an explosion there is an imminent risk that nuclear material can leave the station.
According to French fire houses and international press agencies the explosion happened in Marcoule, which is 30km north of Avignon. All 3 reactors were already shut down in the 80s. The explosion happened in an incinerator for low-radioactive material. This is an interim stage along the way of nuclear recycling. It is currently unknown how much nuclear material left the area. Different rumours say, that up to 4 people were injured and maybe one man killed.
There is also the unofficial warning that radioactive material could leave the area!
France is with 58 reactors the biggest atomic power producer in Europe. Even after the happenings in Fokushima, the government still wants to keep to their nuclear plans.
1 year ago
The 911 Tribute of Light Short Film (by @f9photo)
1 year ago
"For the fallen. Remember." by @IAmNeedCreative
1 year ago
9/11 reports by NYTimes
Here are some of the best New York Times Reports about the 10-year 9/11 happenings:
- ‘Smoke Signals’ - A report by volunteer, who helped people at ground zero: http://nyti.ms/oPNKBw
- 9/11 by numbers: http://nyti.ms/oPCHU1
- ‘Dear firefighter…’ - A story about a firehouse that lost eight people: http://nyti.ms/o0jOE3
- ‘the Seeds of the Infinite Grapevine’ - journalism and media, then and now: http://nyti.ms/ruLCmu
Remember all victims of 9/11 in peace.
R.I.P.
(Source: The New York Times)
2 years ago
Kein AKW-Brand
Nein es ist nicht das AKW Philipsburg das brennt, sondern eine Bitumenfabrik in Rheinsheim. Alle Bilder&Co auf https://twitter.com/FreytagNews/favorites
Es geht keine Gesundheitsgefährdung aus, dennoch fordert die Polizei in einer Presseerstmeldung dazu auf Fenster+Türen geschlossen zu halten. Wind weht SW, also könnte die Wolke knapp an Karlsruhe vorbeiziehen
2 years ago
@FreytagNews on Twitter
Visit my twitter NEWS-profile http://twitter.com/FreytagNews
2 years ago
Every minute I was there, I wanted to flee.
I did not want to see this.
Would I cut and run, or would I deal with
the responsibility of being there with a camera
(Source: war-photographer.com)
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