7pm
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street, W1H 5BW
Free
Artist in residence Marwan Rechmaoui will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist discussing the artist’s practice.
Former TV presenter Sayed Hamid Noori was murderedat his home in Kabul on 5 September. He had been stabbed and his throat had been cut. The motives are unknown but he was an active member of the National Union of Afghan Journalists.
The director of a news programme for Mundo Villa TV was murdered in Buenos Airies on 4 September. Adam Ledezma was stabbed after he left his house at 4.45 am to help with a neighbour’s electricity problem, and was found dead half an hour later.
The US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned today that a Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Quran on 11 September could endanger troops.
A journalist charged with treason will remain in pre-trial detention, a court ruled on 6 September. Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested on 17 July after he wrote an article about the possibility of Burundi being the target for a terrorist attack.
A free speech defender and lawyer who has represented imprisoned journalists, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested on 5 September on charges of anti-government propaganda and conspiring against the regime after responding to a summons from a revolutionary court prosecutor’s office located inside Tehran’s Evin prison.
Playing Away
Classified ad site Craigslist has closed its “Adult Services” section, after a campaign by 17 states to have it removed.
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 26 June – 19 September 2010.
£19.50
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A witness in the case of missing journalist Vasyl Klymentyev has also gone missing. According to deputy editor Petro Matvienko, the key witness disappeared last week.