Press Release - 9 Feb 2013:
Virtual Activism, the Center for Knowledge Society, would like to express deep concern regarding the Egyptian Administrative Court's decision today to ban Youtube and 'other sites' posting material deemed 'insulting to the Prophet', for 30 days. Virtual Activism sees this as a new way to censor the internet and curb freedom of speech and expression. We also view this as an open road to empower an already autocratic and repressive government as manifested in other decisions.
While Virtual Activism realizes the technical difficulty of "banning for 30 days", we view this matter with great concern because it opens the door for further censorship of the internet related to any opposing views. We believe that the '30 day ban' is a test of the technical abilities of the Egyptian government to censor websites, and therefore expect many more to come.
Once again Virtual Activism would like to stress that banning is not and has never been a solution. People with some technical skills will be able to bypass the ban. We would like to stress that only an honest and open discussion of the issues and civilized responses to offending videos/sites will be helpful.
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8 November 2012 Egypt - Blocking internet websites a new step towards suppression of freedom of expression Virtual Activism has learnt with great concern of the Egyptian public prosecutor’s decision on November 7th 2012, to “block internet porn sites” and any images or visuals that “threaten the values and morals of the Egyptian family and national security”. Several issues need to be taken into consideration:
الثورة الثانية - 25 يناير 2013 وحتى اليوم.
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قامت منظمات ممثلة عن المجتمع المدنى العراقى بإرسال خطابا مفتوحا للحكومة العراقية إستعرضت فيه تاريخ المجتمع المدنى العراقى ويناشد الحكومة بإيقاف الإنتهاكات الدستورية وتسهيل قدرة المجتمع المدنى على القيام بدوره الفعال لخدمة الوطن. ومرفق بأسفل نص الخطاب Iraqi civil society organizations have sent an open letter to the Iraqi government explaining the history of civil society and asking the government to stop its violations of the Iraqi constitution and to begin facilitating instead of obstructing civil society's role to serve the Iraqi people. Below is the text of the letter.
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Mapping human rights abuses and religious freedoms in ME
خرائط إنتهاكات حقوق الإنسان وإنتهاك الحريات الدينية فى الشرق الأوسط
| Conclusions of the civil society press conference December 30, 2011 02/01/2012 The undersigned organizations condemn the broad, ongoing attack on human rights organizations and civil society, which today included raids on sever [ ... ] |
| تجارة الأسلحة مع الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا تبين عدم فاعلية القيود على التصدير 01/11/2011 أصدرت منظمة العفو الدولية تقريرا بعنوان عمليات نقل الأسلحة إلى الشرق الأوسط وشما [ ... ] |
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