July, 2007

Stories from July, 2007

Popular Malaysian blogger interrogated

  28 July 2007

The dirt-busting blogger and editor of popular news and politics blog Malaysia Today Raja Petra was brought in for questioning by police on July 26 ostensibly in connection to a complaint filed against him regarding comments left on his posts. Petra and others are saying this is part of a...

European study on legal frameworks for censorship released

  28 July 2007

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has issued a lengthy report looking at the legal and constitutional frameworks on which state governments are basing practices of internet censorship. For Kazakhstan, the report finds, domestic threats to information security are defined as widely as “unlawful activities of political and...

Malaysian blogger arrested for comment published on his blog

  14 July 2007

Malaysian blogger Nat Tan has been arrested for a comment published on one of his blog posts last year. His Laptop and desktop were seized. Tan has been remanded for four days, until Tuesday, to facilitate investigation under the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

Blog of Tunisian journalist and blogger hacked

  14 July 2007

The blog of the Tunisian journalist and blogger Slim Boukhdhir has been hacked and deleted. The work seems to be done by the same group of hackers who are targeting Tunisian opposition websites and blogs. Last weeks, the website of the Progressive Democratic Party (a legal opposition political party) has...

Israel: the censorship bill unanimously approved

  13 July 2007

The censorship bill for internet porn and violence proposed by Amnon Cohen of the ultra-orthodox Shas party has been unanimously approved by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation and will be brought to the Israeli Knesset.

China: Internet control after Xiamen protest

  6 July 2007

“Under a new city regulation, online users would have to use their real names when posting messages on more than 100,000 Web sites registered in Xiamen”, a Southern Chinese city where citizens used blogs, chatrooms and SMS to organize a protest against a planned construction of a toxic chemical plant.

Intimidation and threats to Blogger Wael Abbas

  2 July 2007

Blogger Ahmad Sherif has posted an English translation of Egyptian police intimidation targeting Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and threatening him to stop publishing articles and videos criticizing President Mubarak and his son Gamal. “These are certainly not the ways of a nation sitting at the United Nation’s Council for Human...