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SMEX • 28 Apr 2023

Sudan: Internet Shutdowns Fuel Human Rights Abuses

Internet in Sudan has been shut down intermittently amid armed clashes between the Sudanese army, led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan,…

#KeepItOn
Digital Rights
Human Rights

SMEX • 22 Feb 2023

Digital Safety Helpdesk Expands beyond West Asia and North Africa

For the second year in a row, Facebook ranked first as the platform where users faced the highest number of…

Digital Rights
Digital Safety Helpdesk
Facebook

Zeinab Ismail • 27 Oct 2022

Lebanon: Telecom Devices Confiscated in Syrian Refugee Camps

Digital Rights
internet cutoff
Lebanon

SMEX • 13 Sep 2022

Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating During Exams: The Impact on Society and Economy in the MENA Region

Censorship
Cheating
Digital Rights

SMEX • 09 Sep 2022

Amazon Launches Data Region in the UAE

Amazon
Digital Authoritarianism
Digital Rights

SMEX • 29 Aug 2022

Saudi authorities must release women’s rights activist Salma al-Shehab

We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the international community to press Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release women’s…

Digital Rights
Freedom Of Speech
Human Rights

SMEX • 24 Jan 2022

YEMEN: Internet and Telecommunications are NOT Military Targets!

YEMEN is currently plunged in a nationwide internet blackout after Saudi-led airstrikes targeted a telecommunications building in the Houthi-held city…

Connectivity
Digital Rights
Human Rights