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Lead Stories developer of the Richard W. Hamming Medal Dennis in 1990, the National Ritchie died at home on Medal of Technology and Dennis Ritchie, October 8 after an Innovation in 1998, and programming language extended illness, at the the in 2011. creator, dies aged 70 age of 70. Former Eyewitnesses challenge colleague first Egyptian state media publicly announced the Eyewitnesses challenge impartiality in fatal death, which Alcatel- Egyptian state media protests then confirmed. impartiality in fatal protests Ritchie, born in Bronxville, Iran continues to lash out New York on September 9, at film industry 1941, joined in With at least 24 dead, eye- 1967. There, with Ken witnesses to Sunday Thompson, he helped night's protests in Egypt Dennis Ritchie, C develop Unix, an operating assert state-run media programming language system on which are based broadcast unreliable creator, dies aged 70 many modern systems like information, and and Mac OS X. Unix incorrectly claimed Coptic provided the infrastructure protesters provoked that led the creation of the military action. Internet. Between 1969 and 1973 he developed the Challenging the official C, one of the most used narrative provided by programming languages, Egyptian state media that influenced many channels, including languages like C++, Java, Channel One and Nile and PHP. After Unix was News, blog reports and rewritten, C was key to its other social media portability. In 2007 he coverage dispute early reports on Channel One Dennis Ritchie (right) being retired from his post as Bell that those protesting threw awarded the Japan Prize Labs' hd of systems software research. stones, and fired live Image: Denise Panyik-Dale. ammunition, at military Ritchie and Thompson The C programming personnel. Further were awarded the Turing allegations assert coverage language creator and co- Award in 1983, the IEEE

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en.wikinews.org was selective, with footage demonstration turned For Sale, directed by of military vehicles violent. Iranian-Australian Granaz pursuing and running over Moussavi. The film is about protesters not aired. Iran continues to lash a young Tehrani actress Nile News conducted out at film industry whose work is banned by the government. interviews with injured on An Iranian court in Tehran each side of the clash. yesterday confirmed film HAVE YOUR SAY Military and security barred director Jafar Panahi's protestors from reaching sentence to six years in their building. Nile News jail, and a twenty-year ban Is government censorship anchor Hesham Assy said: on filmmaking. Charges of the arts ever " We did the best we could, against the award-winning acceptable? given the circumstances, director were summarised as it was very difficult to by state media as, "[...] leave the building last acting against national night." security and propaganda Despite this, journalist Mai against the regime". Elwakil writing for Almasry In September, before the Alyoum claims "the original sentence was coverage [overall] seems handed down, Panahi to have led viewers to lamented, "[w]hen a film- believe that Coptic maker does not make films Iranian commentators protesters caused the it is as if he is jailed. Even violence." heavily criticised the film, when he is freed from the which is being distributed Challenging the stance of small jail, he finds himself illegally in Iran, and in July state media, it is claimed wandering in a larger jail". Vafamehr was arrested. the military fired upon With the ban now in-place, Producers Julie Ryan and protesters, and the filmmaker's This is not Kate Croser state they "did deliberately attacked them a Film, which premièred at not set out to produce a using excessive force. Canne Film festival, may political film." Stressing, Members of the state be his last work for two "[w]e definitely didn't set media also question the decades. The handheld- out to make a film that coverage; state TV worker shot documentary covers criticised the government". Taghreed al-Dossouky Panahi' struggle with The role played by announced via her Twitter censorship whilst being Vafemehr shows her with a account, "I reject the prosecuted. shaved head, and without Egyptian state media's Panahi's is the second a hijab. coverage because it incites high-profile case this week; sectarianism, and I Australian Foreign Minister actress Marzieh Vafamehr Kevin Rudd's office issued condemn all those who was sentenced to 90 partake in it." a statement condemning lashes and one year in jail Vafemehr's sentence. At least 24 people were for starring in the killed and over 200 controversial Australian- Puzzle of the day wounded as the produced film My Tehran

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