Noha Atef

Contributor profile · 38 posts · joined 8 September 2008

RSS feed for  » Noha Atef RSS feed for » Noha Atef
View all contributors »

An Egyptian journalist and editor of Tortureinegypt.net blog, I'm interested in human rights causes. My joy is to learn something new and to help others. I love Egypt and have been living in it, but i fell that my home country is the whole world!

Email Noha Atef

Latest posts by Noha Atef

26 October 2009

Two Egyptian Bloggers to Stay in Jail

Read this post.

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...

29 September 2009

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

Read this post.

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...

25 September 2009

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

Read this post.

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...

1 August 2009

Egypt: 2 Bloggers Released and Another Still Disappeared (podcast)

Read this post.

Two out of the three bloggers who were arrested on July 22, 2009 are now free. Abdel Rahman Ayyash and Magdy Saad were released after six days of arrest at...

22 July 2009

Egypt: Three Bloggers Arrested On the Same Day

Read this post.

Today, July 22, 2009, seems to be a start of a series of crackdown on bloggers in Egypt, as 3 young bloggers were arrested separately. The first blogger is Ahmad...

22 June 2009

Egypt: A Week of ‘Bad News' for bloggers

Read this post.

Last week ended up with a number of bad news for some Egyptian bloggers. Diaa Eddin Gad from Sawt Ghadeb (Angry Voice), is harassed by State Security police. Diaa, who was released last March after being arrested and ill-treated, told Global Voices in a phone call, that a force of State Security raided his house two weeks ago, and searched his apartment, and the whole building where he is living. He said:

11 June 2009

Egypt: Police Asks For Information about visitors of ‘Political Websites'

Read this post.

After detaining more than 100 blogger in 2008 alone, Egypt is now using a new technique in controlling the internet freedom, as police officers asked an internet café owner to spy on his customers.