JO GLANVILLE Editorial

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REVIEW OF THE YEAR MALU HALASA Iran uncut

Why Iran censors images as much as words

MELISSA GOODMAN Keeping it secret

Barack Obama has already broken his promises

JOEL SIMON Stopping the killers

Impunity remains a number one issue

DMITRY MURATOV Living dangerously

An interview with the editor of Novaya Gazeta

DUNCAN HEWITT Net effects

A year of contradictions in China

AI WEIWEI Conspiracy of silence

China’s most famous artist speaks out

JYTTE KLAUSEN See no evil

The continuing fallout from the Danish cartoons

HTEIN LIN Burmese days

The unpredictable tactics of the junta

MARTIN ROWSON Stripsearch

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ROBERT FARIS & JONATHAN ZITTRAIN Web tactics

The highs and lows of the year online

BIBI VAN DER ZEE Twitter triumphs

How technology changed the face of protest

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STANLEY KWENDA In the shadow of Mugabe 103 The coalition government has failed to deliver