DR Lab • 08 May 2023

Internet and Telecom Shutdowns in Sudan: Who is responsible?

On May 5, MTN Sudan announced that all its relay stations in Khartoum were down due to power outages and…

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  • Internet Shutdown
  • Rapid Support Forces
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,…

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  • Digital Rights
  • Human Rights
Abed Kataya • 18 Apr 2023

Lebanon: Is the Government Purposefully Damaging the Telecom Sector?

Amid the real risk of the collapse of Lebanon’s telecommunications services, serious reports have recently emerged about massive squandering and…

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  • Bids
Abed Kataya • 10 Mar 2023

Mauritania: The drawbacks of disrupting mobile internet after prisoners escape

Authorities in Mauritania have cut off mobile internet services since March 6, 2023, after four prisoners—classified as “terrorists” by the…

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  • Internet Shutdown
  • Internet Shutdown
Ali Sibai • 03 Jun 2021

Another internet blackout in Syria during exams

In recent years, internet outages in Syria have become a familiar, dystopian tradition during the Official High School Exams. The…

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  • Exam Shutdown
SMEX • 15 Oct 2019

Iraqi lawyer sues the Minister of Telecommunications for Shutting Down the Internet During Protests

On Wednesday, October 9, Iraqi lawyer Mohammed Joumaa filed a lawsuit against the Iraqi minister of telecommunications for disrupting and shutting…

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  • Digital Rights
  • Human Rights
SMEX • 10 Jun 2019

Sudan junta shuts down Internet to cover-up horrific human rights violations

Following the massacre of peaceful protesters at a sit-in near the Army Headquarters in Khartoum on June 2nd, Sudan’s Transitional…

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  • Human Rights
  • Internet access
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