2011 May

May, 2011

Monthly archive · 13 posts

Stories from May, 2011

7 May 2011

Egypt: how companies help the government spy on activists

Few weeks ago when authorities didn’t respond immediately to people’s demand, many Egyptians stormed the State Security Investigations (SSI) headquarters to protect the evidences against SSI offices (including torture equipments and documents). Among those documents where communications between SSI units related to censorship, monitoring online content, controlling computes/ laptops, as well as shutting down communications services.

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5 May 2011

Azerbaijan: Youth Activist Sentenced

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Azerbaijan

Jabbar Savalan, a 20-year-old opposition youth activist, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on drug possession charges. However, others maintain that Javalan was detained because of calls made on Facebook for demonstrations to be held in Azerbaijan following popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

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Did Syria replace Facebook's security certificate with a forged one?

Written by Anas Qtiesh · Syria

Ana Souri [I'm Syrian in Arabic] tumblr user is claiming that Syrian Telecom Ministry has replaced Facebook's security certificate with a forged one that makes it easy to spy on users, record their passwords, and view their private content.

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4 May 2011

China: Political Spam in Twitter

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The tag system in Twitter is an effective way in distributing information beyond a user's social network. However, the system can easily be contaminated by spam messages. In western countries,...

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In Bahrain, World Press Non-Freedom Day

Written by Solana Larsen · Bahrain, Middle East & North Africa

Today is World Press Freedom Day, a day that is being commiserated more than celebrated in many nations, including Bahrain, where journalists and bloggers are currently under siege by government.

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2 May 2011

China: Exposing Internet Surveillance Abroad

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The U.S-China Human Rights Dialogue did not have any concrete consensus last week. While the U.S government questioned Chinese government's crackdown on dissent, oppression of religion and expression freedom, Chinese...

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