Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations have called for a freeze on the recently publicized cybercrime law that was approved by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on June 24, 2017. In a press statement released by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), the new law[...]
Feature image via Monasosh Flickr. The Committee of Suggestions and Complaints in the Egyptian parliament accepted and referred the contentious draft cybercrime law to the joint Legislative Affairs – Communication and Information Technology Committee last week. The draft law, which is expected to be adopted soon, has[...]
Feature image by thierry ehrmann, CC BY 2.0 Digital Citizen has been re-published from digcit.org Digital Citizen is a biweekly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World. In the face of regular suspensions from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, supporters of Daesh[...]
