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13 June 2007

“Beat the Censors!”, a gift of freedom for Thai Internet users

(Photo Credit - sivanelle: Anti-censorship protestors gathered outside Pantip Plaza, a popular IT mall. June 9th, 2007 ) To date, Thailand’s ICT Minister, Dr Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, has not kept his...

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23 May 2007

Fijian Freedom bloggers and the military junta

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Fiji

It seems that the persecution faced by the anti-military Fijian Freedom Bloggers - who are using blogs to protest against the coup of December 5th, 2006- has subsided following a...

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4 May 2007

Abdel-Monem Mahmoud: the Egyptian totalitarian regime is the problem

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Egypt

As I promised in my last article “Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting”, I’m publishing here the translation of the interview I did with the jailed Egyptian blogger...

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22 March 2007

Part Two: Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Egypt

Source: original image from Baheyya (photoshopped), text in Arabic from Misr Digital (Read Part One of this article here) In order to better understand this highly organized Egyptian blogosphere and...

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23 February 2007

Pakistan: Online freedom of speech as collateral damage?

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Pakistan

This flash animation is converted from the Powerpoint Presentation made by Dr Awab Alvi for “The Battle for the Internet.” conference (His presentation can be viewed here-original file .ppt) ...

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14 February 2007

Iran: Flickr users vs. The State

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Iran, United Arab Emirates

One of the censorship nightmares experienced by web-connected citizens living in countries engaging in Internet filtering is to find out that they can no longer access their favorite sites. Unfortunately,...

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