Tunisians flocked to voting stations yesterday in the country’s first-ever free elections, but only the cultivation of an independent media will safeguard democracy and free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera
Rohan Jayasekera
Wikileaks whistleblowers need care as well as attention
Rohan Jayasekera: Wikileaks whistleblowers need care as well as attention
More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook "thought criminals"
Rohan Jayasekera: More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook “thought criminals”
More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook "thought criminals"
Rohan Jayasekera: More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook “thought criminals”
When speculation has its place
Rohan Jayasekera: Even in the midst of horror, speculation can still have a place
Georgia out of its mind?
Rohan Jayasekera:Saakashvili’s hunt for Russian spies could be cover for darker ambitions of his own
Making a courtroom drama out of a media crisis
News International’s Hackgate scandal does not justify state press regulation, argues Rohan Jayasekera
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Birth, death and rebirth of Sri Lanka's habit of atrocity
Rohan Jayasekera: Birth, death and rebirth of Sri Lanka’s habit of atrocity
Tunisian policeman blows whistle on bad lieutenants Ben Ali left behind
Rohan Jayasekera: Blowing the whistle on Tunisia’s Bad Lieutenants
Bahraini ban fails to silence courageous free speech activist
Rohan Jayasekera: Courageous Bahraini human rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab dials into IFEX conference
Open politics will stretch Tunisian Islamists
Rohan Jayasekera asks if the return of Tunisia’s Islamists help or hinder the national democratic project
Tunisians will not be easily unplugged again
Discreet coup or “Jasmine Revolution”, the departure of Tunisia’s despot Zine el Abidene Ben Ali will not end his networked citizens’ calls for reform. Rohan Jayasekera reports