Ramy Raoof

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I work for human rights. Interested in online media, digital activism and digital security. Editor of Egyptian Blog for Human Rights

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4 January 2010

Egypt: E-mail Monitor officially recognized

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt, Middle East & North Africa

While the local and international media are getting more concerned about the Egyptian government's policy in restricting convoys to Gaza Strip, there isn't much information concerning the active monitoring of...

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23 December 2009

Social Media in the Arab World, Snowball heading to Democracy

Written by Ramy Raoof · Middle East & North Africa

On its website, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Arabic network that promotes freedom of speech, announced: The internet has a snowball effect on the process of democracy...

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21 October 2009

Video: How Police & Customs Officers deal with Bloggers at Cairo Airport?

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

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...

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16 October 2009

Egypt: Security beats Blogger badly

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

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...

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29 September 2009

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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9 September 2009

Egypt Interrogating Netizen for a Blog Comment

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

On September the 3rd, 2009, Khaled elBalshy, the Editor-In-Chief of the Al-Badeel newspaper, who maintains a personal blog at http://elbalshy.blogspot.com, was interrogated by the Interior Ministry's Internet Crimes department for...

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2 September 2009

Egypt: American blogger and activist detained,Laptop Confiscated

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

Last night, Tuesday 1st September 09, the American activist and blogger Travis Randall, who participated in a small march supporting Gaza earlier this year, was detained by security officers for tow hours upon his arrival at Cairo International Airport. Security officers gave no explanation for the detention. Furthermore, they confiscated Randall's laptop and cell phone.

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