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Writing Prompts Pick a restrictive country
1-Describe where the country is (continent, 2 border counties)?
2- Who is in charge, and why he may be responsible, for the abuses?
3-What rights do they not have, compared to the US Bill of Rights?
Use GOOGLE to Search the country, and Leader for information.
When Complete
Country –Saudi Arabiv Leader- King Abdullah,. Age 82. In power since 1995.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Abdullah did not become king until 2005, he has ruled Saudi Arabia since his half-brother, Fahd, suffered a stroke 10 years earlier. In Saudi Arabia, phone calls are recorded and mobile phones with cameras are banned. It is illegal for public employees “to engage in dialogue with local and foreign media.” By law, all Saudi citizens must be Muslims. According to Amnesty International, police in Saudi Arabia routinely use torture to extract “confessions.” Saudi women may not appear in public with a man who isn’t a relative, must cover their bodies and faces in public and may not drive. The strict suppression of women is not voluntary, and Saudi women who would like to live a freer life are not allowed to do so.
Country- Zimbabwe. Leader- Robert Mugabe,Age 81. In power since 1980.
Life in Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse: It has the world’s highest inflation rate, 80% unemployment and an HIV/AIDS rate of more than 20%. Life expectancy has declined since 1988 from 62 to 38 years. Farming has collapsed since 2000, when Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms, giving most of them to political allies with no background in agriculture. In 2005, Mugabe launched Operation Murambatsvina (Clean the Filth), the forcible eviction of some 700,000 people from their homes or businesses—“to restore order and sanity,” says the government. But locals say the reason was to forestall demonstrations as the economy deteriorates.
Also ther e are some thing about Saduia Arabia that are good. also there are the bad thing s like babbed cell phones with cameras???
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Iran,Continents Asia. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and TurkeyIran all border Iran Leader Is Seyed Ali Khamane’I, Hes 66 been in power since 1989. Over the past four years, the rulers of Iran have undone the reforms that were emerging in the nation. The hardliners completed this reversal by winning the parliamentary elections in 2004 —after disqualifying 44% of the candidates—and with the presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2005. Ultimately, however, the country is run by the 12-man Guardian Council, overseen by the Ayatollah Khamane’i, which has the right to veto any law that the elected government passes. Khamane’i has shut down the free press, tortured journalists and ordered the execution of homosexual males.
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The continent of China is Asia . The two border Countrys of China is Afghanistan and Bhutan. Hu Jintao is in charge of China. He mighht be responiable for the abuse because he monitors everything that you would do. For an example they monitor your phonecalls and read your text. China does not have the right of privacy.
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Cuba - Below the united states Locatedin the north american Continent to the right in the Pacific Ocean. Raul Castro Is in control Of Cuba. He took over Cuba in 1951, new years eve. He's something they call a Communist and hes the reason, not the country itself. The local access to the Internet is so controlled, and the punishment to dissent so severe, that they managed to create a state of self-censorship, where people don’t even try to access prohibited material out of fear.
ReplyDeleteIn the united states we are able to get on the internet no matter what site you go on no metter if its going against “religion” or our country we have the bill of rights were we have freeedom of speech were as if they go against any law or anything that they believe in or is a “law” its Major Punishment so they don’t do things in fear…
Cuban Law limits freedom of expression, association, assembly, movement, and the press. After coming to power in 1959, Fidel Castro's government built a highly effective machinery of repression, according to Human Rights Watch.
As early as September 1959, Valdim Kotchergin (or Kochergin), a KGB agent, was seen in Cuba. Jorge Luis Vasquez, a Cuban who was imprisoned in East Germany, states that the East German secret police Stasi trained the personnel of the Cuban Interior Ministry (MINIT.
Victoria F 6/29/11
North Korea- 1.) Located on the continent of Asia. Bordering Countries-South Korea and China.
ReplyDelete2.) Kim Jong-il has power over North Korea. While the outside world focuses on Kim Jong-il’s nuclear weapons program, domestically he runs the world’s most tightly controlled society. North Korea continues to rank last in the index of press freedom compiled by Reporters Without Borders, and for the 34th straight year it earned the worst possible score on political rights and civil liberties from Freedom House. An estimated 250,000 people are confined in “reeducation camps.” Malnourishment is widespread: According to the United Nations World Food Program, the average 7-year-old boy in North Korea is almost 8 inches shorter than a South Korean boy the same age and more than 20 pounds lighter.
3.) Basically there is no Internet in North Korea. No servers. No service providers. Nothing. Zip.Only a handful elite members of the government have an Internet connection, and they have it via a satellite link that is connected with German servers. Part of the population is trying to escape this iron curtain by using 3G mobile phones and Chinese connections. This is not an effective solution, though, and even when it works the users would be subject to the Chinese censorship on the other end.
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Lacey W.
ReplyDeleteNavajo
1.) Iran Is located in the Middle East and is found on the continent of Asia. Iran has seven countries which border it. Here are two of them: Pakistan, Iraq.
2.) President Mohammed Khatami, has shown no tolerance for peaceful protests and gatherings."
3.) U.S. Courts cannot punish you by beating you or flogging you. In Iran you can get the death penalty for protesting against you Country. In U.S. we have freedom of speech.
North Korea is located in East Asia, which Asia is its continent. China and Australia are the two that border East Asia. Only certain people in the government of North Korea are aloud to use the internet because, they don’t want the information to get out, but in the USA we are aloud.
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Saudi Arabia is located in the north east. Abdullah did not become king until 2005; he has ruled Saudi Arabia since his half-brother, Fahd, suffered a stroke 10 years earlier. Most of their rules to me are ridiculous. Some of their rules consist of a woman cannot go out in public without a male by a her side. Females cannot drive, and they also can not show skin. To me that is ridiculous, I mean I could get over the driving thing but in our country we as females have the right to drive, wear what we want, and go out in public alone. We have the same equal rights as the males. I believe that this should happen in all countries. We are all humans and we all disserve the same thing, nobody is better then anyone that’s why we should have the same rights.
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ReplyDelete1-Describe where the country is (continent, 2 border counties)?
Iran is a continent of asia and the 2 counties that border it is IRAQ , Pakistan
2- Who is in charge, and why he may be responsible, for the abuses?
Ayatollah Khamane’i, which has the right to veto any law that the elected government passes. Khamane’i has shut down the free press, tortured journalists and ordered the execution of homosexual males.
3-What rights do they not have, compared to the US Bill of Rights?