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The undersigned organisations, express our deep concern about the possibility of prison sentences being handed down on 4 September 2010 to prominent Egyptian hu..


	Joint action
	The undersigned organisations, express our deep concern about the possibility of prison sentences being handed down on 4 September 2010 to prominent Egyptian human rights activists Gamal Eid, director


	Blogging And Tweeting, Egyptians Push For Change
	Young Egyptians are using social media to fight police brutality and urge a more open government. Critics say that not a single Arab dictator has been overthrown by protests on the Web. But young acti


	The Loss Of Popularity Of Egyptian Blogging
	The active blogs of a few years ago, which scrutinised social violence and confrontations between the opposition and the police, seem to have waned in popularity today. Their success was attained neit


	Blog of the week: Amonsito & State Violence
	The morning started with escalations by the workers of the Amonsito factory.


	More abuse for Egypt Sinai writer, blogger
	Reports circulated on Tuesday that the Egyptian interior ministry had escalated its torture of prisoner of conscience Mossad Abu Fagr, a prominent Egyptian blogger who has been jailed since 2007.


	North African bloggers get creative to evade censorship
	When confronted with free speech as an act of self-expression, authoritarian powers throughout history have tried to assert their legitimacy and remove threats to their rule through censorship.


	Wasla – Egypt's Magazine for Bloggers without Blogs
	Internet blogs are today taking on increasing importance in Egypt. But many readers simply don't have the time to do so much reading online. The new blog magazine "Wasla" is setting out to change that


	Banning Skype rumors in Egypt
	Blogger Israa el-Sakka wrote that she was unable to log into to Skype and when she called Vodafone they told her that Telecom Egypt had told the company to bar users from using Skype.


	Blogger apologizes for
	Egypt has arrested a string of prominent bloggers in the past who criticized security repression or were accused of insulting Islam and the president.


	Electronic Day against IOF's blockade of Gaza March 9
	Internet activists have agreed to change their profile photo on the popular social networking site "Facebook"


	Threat to Social Media in Middle East
	Internet Service Provider (ISP) plays an important role in blocking/filtering websites. In its role as a licensed ISP and in response to customer requests, ISPs have a clear policy that aims to preve


	Blogging Truth to Power in the Middle East
	I had the honor today of moderating a panel on elections and new media co-sponsored by Google and Freedom House. What made it particularly interesting was the participation of a group of eleven blogge


	MB launches Facebook campaign calling for solidarity
	Activists call for solidarity and expose violations to MB human rights


	Egypt: Calls for solidarity with Egyptian anti-torture blogger Wael Abbas
	Egyptian activists and bloggers are gearing up for today’s showdown between the government and leading blogger Wael Abbas, who was sentenced last fall to 6 months in prison.


	Youth activists arrested in Egypt
	The arrest and detention of two young democracy activists is a further indication of the closing of political space in Egypt, as the World Movement for Democracy notes in this emergency alert:


	Egypt: Top blogger found not guilty, no jail time
	One of Egypt’s top bloggers and anti-torture activist, Wael Abbas, has been found not guilty by a Cairo court on Thursday. The ruling means the blogger will avoid what could have been 6 months in p


	HRW to Libya: Stop blocking websites
	Libya’s moves in late January, 2010, to block access to at least seven independent and opposition Libyan web sites based abroad and to YouTube is a disturbing step away from press freedom, Human Rig


	Upholding the Imprisonment Sentence of Blogger Wael Abbas, Six Months In Jail
	The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information demanded the Egyptian government to discontinue persecuting Abbas and to stop devising methods to inhibit him from exposing the Egyptian government scan


	In a workshop on the internet and its role in the movement for democracy
	The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) hosted a workshop on the role of the internet in the movement of democracy in Egypt and the Arab world. The workshop took place at the Journalis


	A Bad Weekend for ME Bloggers and Social Networkers
	It's a three day weekend in the US. But first the Muslim Brotherhood, and now various censors and security services, keep making me blog instead of catching up on my reading.