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Andrea López Pastor • 09 Sep 2022

Netflix content censored for violating “social and religious values”

  • Censorship
  • Human Rights
  • LGTBI+
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 • 02 Aug 2022

Statement to condemn the continued blocking of Al-Manassa’s website

  • Al-Manassa
  • blocking
  • Censorship
SMEX • 21 Apr 2022

Egypt’s jailed activist Alaa Abdelfatah brings up second nationality for the first time as patience runs dry

He has British citizenship through his mother, Laila Soueif, a mathematics professor at Cairo University who was born in London while her…

  • Activists
  • Alaa Abdel Fattah
  • Egypt
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
SMEX • 17 Dec 2021

Global Legal Community Stands in Solidarity with Egyptian Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer

We, the undersigned members of the global legal community, stand in solidarity with Egyptian lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer as he awaits…

  • Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms
  • Egypt
  • Human Rights
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