2009-08-27
ليست المرة الأولى...ضباط الأمن يقوموا بمصادرة أجهزة كمبيوتر
2009-08-26
الحكومة العراقية تعلن عن حجب مواقع الكترونية

2009-08-20
Saudi Arabia: Blocks Activists' Twitter Pages المملكة السعودية تراقب وتحجب صفحات مستخدمي التويتر

Saudi Arabia: Blocks Activists' Twitter Pages
Saudi Arabia has begun blocking the Twitter pages of Saudi activists. The human rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair and businessman Khaled al Nasser said their Twitter pages have been blocked since about Monday (17 Aug 09) by the official government Internet censor, the Communications and Information Technology Commission.It should be mentioned both Abulkhair and Nasser usually tweets messages about the situation of human rights in Saudi
2009-08-19
Egypt: the Influence of Facebook Events and Groups
Within the dynamic and expansive electronic media landscape in Egypt, Facebook became widely used by Egyptian citizens for different reasons and in several occasions, especially when it comes to shape the public opinion in opposition to the Egyptian government.
For exa
mple, the Egyptian government recently announced, through the ministry of communication, a “Fair Usage Policy (FUB)” to be implemented in Egypt, aiming to limit the bandwidth consumed by internet users and determine specific downloadable amount. This policy sparked a heated protest from internet users and bloggers in Egypt causing several reactions, which were captured earlier at Global Voices Online by Tarek Amr and Marwa Rakha.

This protest was reflected in the amount of initiatives launched on the social networking website Facebook asking to stop the policy, raise court cases against ISPs, stop paying for internet fees and to protest in front of ISP offices in Egypt.
All these initiatives where launched through Facebook Events and Groups, as well as on the Egyptian blogosphere.
All these initiatives where launched through Facebook Events and Groups, as well as on the Egyptian blogosphere.
Following the protest of Egyptian Internet users and bloggers, the minister of communication was “forced” to reverse its plan. As a result, the Fair Usage Policy (FUB) will only be applied to new internet users and for only two months. Which is considered as a positive step for the netizens in general.
It should also be mentioned that one of the most successful story of the Egyptian online activism was achieved during the case of Emad Al Kabir, a microbus driver, who was tortured and sodomised by police - who videotaped the scene on tape. After the release of the video of torture on blogs and video sharing websites and due to public opinion and press media pressure, the officer responsible for torturing Emad Al Kabir was sentenced to three years in prison.
Although the Egyptian government is striving to control online media and arrest internet users based on their web activism, the Egyptian netizens, however, are able to achieve their demands and shape the public opinion.
* Published on Global Voices Online
Passwords: 8 Tips for Creating & Using them
Most of internet users underestimate the importance of a password, and usually internet users come-up with weak passwords, easy to guess and consequently subjecting their accounts to be hacked, stolen, exploring sensitive information and sometimes blackmailed!.

Here are important tips you need to know while creating a password:
1. Make the password lengthy: long passwords provide more protection than short ones. Your password should be 8 or more characters, 14 or more will be the best.
2. Always Combine: it’s highly recommended to use combined characters in your password, the greater variety of characters that you have in your password, the harder to guess. Always combine uppercase letters (A, B, C, D, E), lowercase letters (a, b, c, d, e), numbers (0, 1, 2, 3) and symbols (! , # $ % ^ & ?)
3. Avoid sequences and repeated characters: try not to use the same character more than one time in your password, and don’t use sequences (1234, abcde)
4. Avoid personal information: your name, birthday, place of birth, ID number, or similar information will be a bad choice. It will be easy to guess and the hacker will first try them.
5. Don’t repeat your passwords: if you are having more than an e-mail account, never use the same password for all accounts.
6. Keep your passwords secret: never keep your password on any document, and don’t email yourself with the password. Never share your passwords with others.
7. Memorable keywords: try to use memorable keywords/phrases in your password. And make sure to be difficult to guess.
8. Regular Change: it will better to change your password every 40 day.
# Password Strength: the strength of any password is always determined by its length and complexity (combined characters). Always have long and combined password.
# Secure Login: whenever you are about to enter your password, always remember to add the letter “s” after the “http” in the URL address bar, refresh the page and enter the password:
Default: http://www.hotmail.com
Secure: https://www.hotmail.com
# Examples for a password:
1*eXaMpLe*7
>e.x.a.m.p.l.e
28$example%15
^-ex-am-ple^
2. Always Combine: it’s highly recommended to use combined characters in your password, the greater variety of characters that you have in your password, the harder to guess. Always combine uppercase letters (A, B, C, D, E), lowercase letters (a, b, c, d, e), numbers (0, 1, 2, 3) and symbols (! , # $ % ^ & ?)
3. Avoid sequences and repeated characters: try not to use the same character more than one time in your password, and don’t use sequences (1234, abcde)
4. Avoid personal information: your name, birthday, place of birth, ID number, or similar information will be a bad choice. It will be easy to guess and the hacker will first try them.
5. Don’t repeat your passwords: if you are having more than an e-mail account, never use the same password for all accounts.
6. Keep your passwords secret: never keep your password on any document, and don’t email yourself with the password. Never share your passwords with others.
7. Memorable keywords: try to use memorable keywords/phrases in your password. And make sure to be difficult to guess.
8. Regular Change: it will better to change your password every 40 day.
# Password Strength: the strength of any password is always determined by its length and complexity (combined characters). Always have long and combined password.
# Secure Login: whenever you are about to enter your password, always remember to add the letter “s” after the “http” in the URL address bar, refresh the page and enter the password:
Default: http://www.hotmail.com
Secure: https://www.hotmail.com
# Examples for a password:
1*eXaMpLe*7
>e.x.a.m.p.l.e
28$example%15
^-ex-am-ple^
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2009-08-17
تعذيب وقتل واختطاف المثليين جنسياً في العراق

Iraq: Killings for Homosexual Conduct
Iraqi militias are carrying out a spreading campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual conduct, or of not being "manly" enough, and Iraq authorities have done nothing to stop the killing, Human Rights Watch said in a report entitled: "They Want Us Exterminated". To download the report click here.
2009-08-16
حرية التعبير بالفيوم: التنكيل بالصحفيين والتحرش واختطاف المدونين

تناول التقرير اعتقال واختطاف أجهزة الأمن للمدونين و التنكيل بالصحفيين، والاستعانة بالبلطجية ضد الطلاب، وكشف التقرير أن وتيرة تكميم الأفواه قد تصاعدت في النصف الأول من هذا العام على يد بضعة ضباط أغلبهم ينتمون لجهاز مباحث امن الدولة .
وتوصل التقرير الصادر عن الشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق الإنسان ومؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير، أن استمرار سيطرة الحرس الجامعي -التابع لوزارة الداخلية- على الجامعات المصرية قد أتاح الفرصة لاتساع رقعة الانتهاكات التي تمارس ضد الطلاب واعتقالهم لحد الاعتداء عليهم داخل حرم الجامعة. للاطلاع علي التقرير أضغط هنا
وتوصل التقرير الصادر عن الشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق الإنسان ومؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير، أن استمرار سيطرة الحرس الجامعي -التابع لوزارة الداخلية- على الجامعات المصرية قد أتاح الفرصة لاتساع رقعة الانتهاكات التي تمارس ضد الطلاب واعتقالهم لحد الاعتداء عليهم داخل حرم الجامعة. للاطلاع علي التقرير أضغط هنا
2009-08-15
EBfHR on RWW-France - ترجمة تدوينة للفرنسية
اليوم 15 أغسطس2009، قام د.عبد اللاي باه وهو مسئول سابق بالأمم المتحدة، بترجمة تدوينة "الحكوم
ة المصرية والملاحقات الالكترونية" إلي اللغة الفرنسية وتم نشرها علي آر-دبليو-دبليو الفرنسية، جدير بالذكر أنه تم نشر النسخة الانجليزية لهذه التدوينة علي أصوات عالمية
Today, 15 Aug 09, the blog post entitled “The Egyptian Government and the detention of Internet activists” which was published by EBfHR on 4th August 09, was translated into French by Dr. Abdoulay Bah, a former U.N official and published on RWW-France. It should be mentioned this post was published in English on Global Voices Advocacy.
2009-08-14
EBfHR on alArabiya TV - علي قناة العربية

Today 14 August 09, EBfHR editor was a guest at alArabiya TV to discuss the situation of electronic media, web-activism and the Egyptian government conduct towards bloggers and internet activists.
2009-08-13
تقرير: رؤساء التحرير يقوموا بدور الرقيب...إخضاع الأعمال الإبداعية لمعايير دينية...استمرار قضايا الحسبة

2009-08-12
بالتوازي...الحكومة المصرية تهاجم وتوظف الإعلام الالكتروني

السيد جمال مبارك، أمين لجنة السياسات بالحزب الحاكم (الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي)، بادر في إطلاق حاور مفتوح مع شباب مصر تحت شعار "شارك" والذي سيعقد في 12 أغسطس 2009 وهو أيضاً تاريخ اليوم العالمي للشباب، لمناقشة قضايا تتعلق بمصر وللإجابة علي تساؤلات الشباب الذي سيشترك في الحوار، في محاولة منه لكسب تأيد الشباب المصري وليكون هذا الحوار إَضافة لرصيده السياسي في حالة تقدمه للترشح في الانتخابات الرئاسية القادمة.
قام السيد جمال مبارك أثناء حملة الترويج للحوار بتوظيف عدد من أدوات الإعلام الالكتروني، فلقد تم إنشاء صفحة للمعجبين بـ"ِشارك" علي موقع الفيس بوك، كما تم إطلاق موقع لتغطية "شارك"، وسوف يتم إطلاق قناة علي موقع اليو-تيوب وحساب علي موقع الفليكر. كما سيتم إذاعة الحوار مباشرة علي الموقع.
من الواضح أن الحكومة المصرية بدأت في إدراك قوة الإعلام الالكتروني وتوظيفه ولكن بالطبع لخدمة مصالحها فقط، وهذا بالتوازي مع احتجاز وتفتيش المدونين وأيضاُ مصادرة متعلقاتهم الشخصية، علماً أن الغالبية الكاسحة للمدونين ومستخدمين الانترنت هم الشباب.
من الواضح أن الحكومة المصرية بدأت في إدراك قوة الإعلام الالكتروني وتوظيفه ولكن بالطبع لخدمة مصالحها فقط، وهذا بالتوازي مع احتجاز وتفتيش المدونين وأيضاُ مصادرة متعلقاتهم الشخصية، علماً أن الغالبية الكاسحة للمدونين ومستخدمين الانترنت هم الشباب.
Egyptian Government utilizes Electronic Media
Despite its attacks on online activists, especially on bloggers, in an attempt to combat utilizing electronic media for human rights and politics, the Egyptian government has begun using the same electronic tools, but for its own interests.
Despite its attacks on online activists, especially on bloggers, in an attempt to combat utilizing electronic media for human rights and politics, the Egyptian government has begun using the same electronic tools, but for its own interests.
Mr. Gamal Mubarak, sun of current President Hosni Mubarak and the General Secretary of the Policy Committee of the National Democratic Party (NDP), is about to launch an online forum named “Sharek” (means participate in Arabic) today, 12 August 09. The new forum will target Egyptian youth by answering their questions and engaging in a dialog with them in his attempt to win credit for his candidature for the upcoming Presidential elections.
Mr. Gamal, while campaigning for the forum, utilized several electronic media tools by launching a Facebook fan-page, a website, and will launch a YouTube channel and a Flicker account as mentioned on his website, as well as broadcasting the forum live on the website.
It’s very clear the Egyptian government realized the power of electronic media and will continue in utilizing it but only in its favor, in parallel with detaining and frisking Bloggers and confiscating their belongings.
2009-08-08
التحرش بالمدونين: أمن مطار القاهرة يصادر متعلقات المدونين

Egypt: Security Officers continuous confiscating Digital Device:
The Security Officers escalates their attacks on online activists, specifically bloggers. Today 08 August 2009, the Egyptian Blogger Wael Abbas was stopped while his coming back from Beirut, and confiscated his CDs, flash memories and camera memory cards. It should be mentioned that this is the second time for Abbas to be stopped by the security officers, from almost one month Abbas was detained at the airport and his laptop was confiscated.
* By EBfHR Editor, published on Global Voices Online.
2009-08-04
The Egyptian Government and the Detention of Internet Activists
Many reasons and factors helped the emergence of electronic media in Egypt. For example, suppressing different media outlets, such as newspapers, TV channels and radio-stations, difficult procedures for founding new media bodies, censoring media content prior to publishing, different forms of repression targeting journalists, very narrow margin for freedoms and many other different reasons.
Although its continuous attempts to control offline media in Egypt, the Egyptian government didn’t take into account the rise of electronic media and didn’t predict that these might be used by Egyptian citizens. And for sure, the government wasn’t ready to deal with such tools, until the young activists, specifically bloggers, started addressing all kind of abuses, detentions, repressions and torture cases on their personal blogs and twitter accounts, raising awareness about the Human rights violations by the Egyptian government, creating a wide debate and attracting the attention of international communities.
Hence, the government started to expand its crackdown not only on civil society activists, but also on online activists by targeting bloggers.
Till now, the government didn’t clearly censor or deface any Egyptian blog, but has arrested number of bloggers because their online activism. The following are examples for people detained because of their online activities:
- Mus'ad Abu Fagr, blogger – 2007.
- Karim El Beheiry, blogger – 2008.
- Esraa Abdel Fatah, 6th of April movement – 2008.
- Ahmed Maher, 6th of April movement – 2008.
- Mohamed Adel, blogger – 2008.
- Diaa Gad, blogger – 2009.
The Egyptian government is also sophisticating its battle against online activists by detaining Egyptian bloggers at Cairo International Airport like what happened with bloggers Abdel Rahman Ayyash and Magdy Saad who were arrested during six days at Cairo International airport. Sometimes security services confiscate bloggers' personal devices, like the case with blogger Wael Abbas (June 30, 2009) when security forces confiscated his laptop.
It should be mentioned that a report issued by the prominent Egyptian NGO Hisham Mubarak Center for Law (HMCL) documented the detention and harassment of 43 internet users throughout 2008.
It is very obvious that the Egyptian government is hardly trying to control both the online and the offline media.
* By EBfHR Editor, Published on Global Voices Online.
* French translation by Dr. Abdoulay Bah, a former UN official at RWW-France
- Karim El Beheiry, blogger – 2008.
- Esraa Abdel Fatah, 6th of April movement – 2008.
- Ahmed Maher, 6th of April movement – 2008.
- Mohamed Adel, blogger – 2008.
- Diaa Gad, blogger – 2009.
The Egyptian government is also sophisticating its battle against online activists by detaining Egyptian bloggers at Cairo International Airport like what happened with bloggers Abdel Rahman Ayyash and Magdy Saad who were arrested during six days at Cairo International airport. Sometimes security services confiscate bloggers' personal devices, like the case with blogger Wael Abbas (June 30, 2009) when security forces confiscated his laptop.
It should be mentioned that a report issued by the prominent Egyptian NGO Hisham Mubarak Center for Law (HMCL) documented the detention and harassment of 43 internet users throughout 2008.
It is very obvious that the Egyptian government is hardly trying to control both the online and the offline media.
* By EBfHR Editor, Published on Global Voices Online.
* French translation by Dr. Abdoulay Bah, a former UN official at RWW-France
2009-08-03
الحكومة المصرية والملاحقات الالكترونية
تتنوع الأسباب حول مقومات الإعلام الالكتروني في مصر، فمنها قمع الحكومة المصرية لوسائل الإعلام، وجود إجراءات تعجيزية لاستخراج التصريحات، الرقابة الأمنية قبل النشر، تعرض الصحفيين لأشكال قمع مختلفة، هامش ضيق للحريات الصحفية وأسباب أخرى كثيرة. لم تكن تتوقع الحكومة المصرية بعد محاولتها الدائمة للسيطرة علي وسائل الإعلام المختلفة من صحافة وتلفزيون وإذاعة، أن تظهر وسائل آخري من خلال الفضاء الالكتروني، ولم تكن أيضا الحكومة في استعداد للتعامل معها. ولكن في ظل توظيف نشطاء الانترنت للوسائل الالكترونية المختلفة في كشف الانتهاكات التي تقوم بها الحكومة من قمع واحتجاز وتعذيب، بدأت الحكومة في توسيع هجمتها للفاعلين ونشطاء المجتمع المدني لتشمل النشطاء علي الفضاء الالكتروني وتحديداً المدونين. لم تصل الحكومة –إلي الآن- لمستوي ملحوظ من حجب وغلق المدونات، ولكن مما لا شك فيه هو وجود ملاحقات أمنية للمدونين بناء علي ما يدونوه. فيما يلي أمثلة لضحايا الملاحقات الالكترونية بمصر
- مسعد فجر، مدون - 2007.
- كريم البحيري، مدون - 2008.
- إسراء عبد الفتاح، شباب 6 إبريل - 2008.
- أحمد ماهر، شباب 6 إبريل - 2008.
- محمد عادل، مدون - 2008.
- ضياء جاد، مدون - 2009.
- مسعد فجر، مدون - 2007.
- كريم البحيري، مدون - 2008.
- إسراء عبد الفتاح، شباب 6 إبريل - 2008.
- أحمد ماهر، شباب 6 إبريل - 2008.
- محمد عادل، مدون - 2008.
- ضياء جاد، مدون - 2009.
وبدأت الحكومة المصرية في تطوير حربها الالكترونية حيث تقوم باحتجاز المدونين المصريين بمطار القاهرة وأحيانا مصادرة الأجهزة الشخصية، مثل ما حدث مع المدون وائل عباس (مدونة الوعي المصري) في 30 يونيو 2009، حيث صادر الأمن الاب-توب الخاص بوائل. وأيضا احتجاز المدون مجدي سعد (مدونة يلا مش مهم) والدون عبد الرحمن عياش (مدونة غريب). ولقد رصد مركز هشام مبارك للقانون في تقرير سنوي عن أوضاع حرية الرأي والتعبير، ملاحقة 43 من نشطاء الانترنت بمصر في عام 2008
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