Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Removing blogs: a new form of Web censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
In addition to blocking blogs and arresting bloggers, a new form of censorship has started to emerge in the Middle East and North Africa: blog-hosting services removing blogs from their servers.
Arab bloggers complain that the major blog-hosting services, Maktoob Blog and...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2008; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance
ONI Blog: Insurgency against Internet filtering: Yemen's electronic media's reaction to crackdown on Web sites
Yemen's major news aggregator and portal calls for "insurgency against Internet filtering" after the government of Yemen blocked the portal and at least 7 other news Web sites. The portal, yemenportal.net, warned in a press release (Arabic) that, unless the government...
- Posted on 26/Jan/2008; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Testing for Internet filtering during parliamentary elections in Jordan
ONI found no evidence of Internet tampering in Jordan during the November 20 parliamentary elections despite claims by the main opposition party that the polls were marred by vote-rigging and electoral fraud. ONI, through in-country testers, monitored online activities and accessibility...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2007; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Elections
ONI Blog: Iran seals offices of news Web site critical of president
Iran is reported to have sealed off the office of the popular news Web site baztab.com. The last item on the Web site carried the headline: "The wish of the presidential office was realised and Baztab's offices were sealed off", Reuters reported....
- Posted on 24/Sep/2007; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: LA Times: Jordan scholar imprisoned for e-mails
A Jordanian scholar has been held in prison since May 2007 for violating Jordan's e-mail laws, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 62-year-old former parliamentarian "wrote e-mails decrying alleged corruption and human rights violations in Jordan to officials and newspapers," the...
- Posted on 15/Aug/2007; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Egyptian lawsuit to block ONI's Web site
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) reported in a press release issued May 10 that an Egyptian judge demanded in a lawsuit blocking access to 50 Web sites, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) Web site is among them.
According...
- Posted on 11/May/2007; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Concern about online censorship in Yemen
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about growing political censorship of the Internet in Yemen after the authorities blocked access to the opposition website www.al-shora.net on 24 February. The site regularly carries articles about corruption, human rights and the need for political...
- Posted on 08/Mar/2007; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Yemen blocks local newspaper's Web site
Al-Shora.net, the Web site of a local Yemeni newspaper has been blocked in Yemen after it published reports critical of the government, the site reported (Arabic). Some local newspapers condemned the blocking and publicized (Nass Press and al-Wahdawi...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2007; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Tunisia bans two issues of French publications and blocks the Web site of the daily Libération
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the action of the Tunisian authorities in banning issues of two French publications, the daily Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, and blocking the website of a third, the daily Libération, because of articles by...
- Posted on 28/Feb/2007; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: BBC: Egypt blogger jailed for "insult"
An Egyptian court has sentenced a 22-year old blogger to four years in prison for insulting Islam and the president on his blog, BBC reported.
The blogger had criticized the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar University and President Hosni Mubarak, whom...
- Posted on 22/Feb/2007; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
