News Archive
Two Egyptian Bloggers to Stay in Jail
Two separate orders were issued last week to prolong the detention of two Egyptian bloggers. The first is yet another arrest order for Mus'ad Abu Fagr, who has been arrested since December 2008. Abu Fagr had a number of court decisions allowing his release, but unfortunately each one of them ...
Vietnam: Blogger and democracy activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy beaten and arrested
Vietnamese authorities have arrested another blogger after sending nine internet activists to prison on two to six years terms for expressing their views on the internet. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was arrested on the evening of October 8, 2009 after the police sent plain-clothes officers to her house to harass her, her husband, and their 13-year-old daughte
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launch 40 IRGC’s blogs
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that more than forty blogs have been created to struggle against IRGC’s enemies on cyber space. This action has taken place in the township of Arak,in the southwest of the Markazi province.
Video: How Police & Customs Officers deal with Bloggers at Cairo Airport?
Today, 21 October 2009, Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was stopped by security officers at Cairo airport while his coming back to Cairo. From his last two experiences, Abbas didn’t travel with his laptop or CDs, flash memories and camera memory cards, since they were confiscated earlier this year. So nothing ...
Macau: Political filtering
Netizens from Macau discovered that the largest forum in Macau, cyberctm, has activated keyword filtering mechanism and filtered away the term "Chief Executive" as well as its substitution "Chief Thief".
The so called "Chief Executive" or C.E (in Chinese 特首）is the head of the Macau Special Administrative Region and the ...
United States:Aftermath of G20 protest suppression
Pittsburgh hosted G20 summit last month (September 22-25), which was marred by protests and the controversial way in which authorities went about suppressing dissent through Twitter.
Activist Elliot Madison who works with People's Law Collective, his home was raided by authorities, he and another man were accused of
" using Twitter ...
Morocco: Press Freedoms Backsliding
2009 has not been a good year for press freedom in Morocco, and over the past few months, actions against journalists seem to be escalating. Although journalists are aware of the country's press law - which forbids criticism of the royal family, Islam, and the Western Sahara - many choose ...
Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide in Persian
The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in Persian thanks to this translation by an Iranian blogger and friend who wants to remain anonymous.
The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.
Egypt: Security beats Blogger badly
Today, Friday 16th October, the Egyptian blogger Demagh Mak and his brother had been stopped for "ID check" in Tanta (Egyptian Province) by a police officer named Mohamed El-Dahrawy.
For no reason, the police agent beat blogger Mak on his back, while asking for IDs. Andd when Mak asked him to ...
China’s Internet: Two Media Declarations
As if to complement one another, two like-minded media declarations were posted on the internet only two days apart from each other, one on Oct. 8 by a group of 15 Chinese intellectuals, another by the Chinese government’s Xinhua News Agency during a World Media Summit in Beijing on Oct. ...
