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A Snapshot of Digital Rights Coverage in the MENA Region
Introduction One day in early 2015, Habib Battah, an investigative journalist who operates the website Beirut Report, noticed new construction…
Ministry of Information Application Threatens Citizens’ Privacy
Feature image via national news agency, June 2018: Minister of information Melham Riachy launching the Eye Police Application . Eye…
New Elections Study Shows Less than 2% of Overall Electoral Speech on Social Media Was Negative
Feature image April 2018: A screenshot of the API used to track social media posts. SMEX and LADE collaborated to…
Do New Sudanese Laws Regulate Digital Space or Limit Freedom of Expression?
Feature image via Bora S. Kamel, Flickr, July 8, 2012: Censorship has gone beyond print publications to electronic publications. The…
Iraqi Government Shuts Down the Internet Amidst Protests
Last week, protests broke out in Basra and quickly spread across southern Iraq. On Saturday, the Iraqi government began intermittently shutting…
Digital Rights Roundup: Lebanese woman gets eights years in Egypt for video, Twitter bans 35 accounts at Israel’s request, and a 15 year old detained in Lebanon for WhatsApp story
Feature image Egypt today, July 2018: A screenshot from Mona el-Mazbouh’s apology video. A Lebanese tourist was sentenced to eight…
Press Release: Beware of Unverified WhatsApp Applications
Many websites and hyperlinks to unverified WhatsApp applications–marketed as “WhatsApp Plus” and promising its users additional features for free–are being…