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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…
Egyptian Parliament Passes Cybercrimes Law to Legitimize its Efforts to Curb Free Speech
Last week, the Egyptian parliament approved a draconian also known as the Cybercrimes law, which compels Internet Service Providers (ISPs)…
Lebanese WhatsApp Users Report Their Accounts Have Been Compromised
According to a statement from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF), several WhatsApp users have complained that their accounts have…
“Youtube Will Be the Biggest Website Banned in Egypt, But Not the First”
Feature image via Youtube: The image Youtube presents when a video is no longer available. On Saturday, Egypt’s Supreme Administrative…