Iran’s new president: What’s next for the country’s media?
President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s track record is largely off limits for discussion among Iranians. Plus, the Cuban rappers demanding freedom of expression.
Iran’s new president-elect is heading into the job carrying some baggage from the past that neither he nor the country’s state-friendly news outlets care to talk about.
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The struggle for freedom of expression in post-Castro Cuba
From protests to viral videos, Cuban activists test the limits of dissent as they demand greater cultural freedoms.
Contributors:
Amaury Pacheco – Poet and activist, Movimiento San Isidro
Fernando Ravsberg – Journalist; former correspondent, BBC
Fernando Rojas – Cuban Deputy Minister of Culture
Marta Maria Ramirez – Independent journalist
Published On 26 Jun 2021