2009 September

September, 2009

Monthly archive · 22 posts

Stories from September, 2009

29 September 2009

Egypt: Another journalist to be deported

To continue the series of harassing or deporting journalists in Egypt, like Travis Randall, Philip Rizk and Wael Abbas; Per Bjorklund, a Swedish journalist and blogger has been detained in...

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Egypt: Bargaining Bloggers to stop opposing the Government

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

“You will be behind the sun” was the expression used by the Dean Abdul Hadi, General Inspector of State Security at Fayoum (Egyptian Province), while he was interrogating the Egyptian...

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Egypt: Blogger warned by state security if he goes on writing on the internet

Written by Noha Atef · Egypt

The Egyptian blogger Abdel Rahman Fares was summoned to State Security headquarters, where he was blamed for his online writings. Fares was warned that he would be arrested if he...

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25 September 2009

Egypt: Detained blogger assaulted and asked to convert to Islam in exchange for his freedom

Written by Noha Atef · Egypt

The lawyer of the arrested blogger Hani Nazeer still not allowed to visit his client. However, the Christian blogger Nazeer managed to contact The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information...

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24 September 2009

China: Be aware of QQ!

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The Chinese IT company Tencent, operator of the popular QQIM service, will start an international version of QQIM application soon. Fons Tuinstra from China Herald will help to moderate its...

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21 September 2009

Yemen: Editor of an opposition website kidnapped

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Yemen

On the night of Friday, September 18th, 2009, the Yemeni Editor of the opposition Socialist Party's website, Al Eshteraki, Mohammed al Maqaleh has been kidnapped in the capital Sana'a by...

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The Power of 140 Characters: Twitter in the Middle East

Written by Tal Pavel · Egypt, Syria

The massive, sustained protests in Iran this past month against the regime’s apparent falsification of the presidential election results was enabled by widespread employment of new communication technologies. Among them...

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