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A Weeklong Crackdown on Freedom of Expression in the Arab World

May 25, 2018 News
Feature image via Pixel. This week, authorities arrested journalists, bloggers, and human rights activists in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Early Wednesday morning, Egyptian police raided the home of journalist and blogger Wael Abbas and arrested him. His whereabouts are still unknown but authorities confiscated his personal computer, phones, and books,[...]
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Omani Activist Hassan al-Basham Passes Away in Prison

May 4, 2018 News
Feature image via Omani Coalition for Human Right:  Hassan al-Basham. Social media activists are mourning the death of Hassan al-Basham, an Omani activist who died in Oman’s Samail Central Prison on April 28 after his health deteriorated. Al-Basham “defended prisoners of conscience…and carried out activities on the social in humanitarian[...]
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The unwritten laws of the Arab Internet

December 25, 2015 Uncategorized
Feature image: Panel of workshop “Freedom of Expression on the Internet in the Arab Region and Their Impact on Human Development”      “70% of opinion prisoners in the Arab world are imprisoned on charges of unlawful Internet use. 70% of those are prosecuted because of social media content.” 55%[...]
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Digital Citizen – Volume 2.6

April 1, 2015 Uncategorized
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[...]
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