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21-02-2010
Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.De unoxmutsen hebben een echte taalrel!
Ho ho ho, Olland heeft een fikse taalrel! Gedaan mat te grinniken over ons Belgistanen en ons eeuwige gekissebis over taalgebruik, beste unoxmutsjes... nu is het jullie beurt en wat blijkt? Jullie nemen heel wat van onze meest gebruikte argumenten over. Nou nou nou. Wij Belgistanen hebben nu toch een voorbeeldfunctie! En zoals we al eerder beweerden, beste Ollanders, Europa zal lijken op Belgistan of niet bestaan. Simpeler kan het niet als redenering maar geef toe jullie komen al aardig in de buurt. Groot-Nederland zal eigenlijk Groot-Belgistan zijn. Het mooiste bewijs vonden we op het uitstekende blog waarover we ons al eerder lovend hebben uitgelaten (wierook wierook) :
http://religionresearch.org/martijn/2010/02/17/hizmetinizde-voor-al-uw-verkiezingsposters/

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Hizmetinizde – Voor al uw verkiezingsposters

17 February 2010 57 views No Comment

Nederlands is één van de kenmerken van Nederland en figureert dan ook prominent in allerlei utopische en idealistische bespiegelingen over de Nederlandse cultuur en identiteit. Dat het huidige standaardnnederlands gebaseerd is op twee dialecten (de Frankische dialecten van Holland en Brabant) met wat Saksische elementen wordt vaak vergeten; Nederlands is vanzelfsprekend en dat de talen van de noordelijke inwoners (in het bijzonder de Friezen en in mindere mate dus de Nedersaksen) daar nauwelijks een rol in hebben gespeeld weten we niet meer. Enige jaren terug kwam Pim Fortuyn met de keurige Nederlandstalige slogan: At your service!

Weinig ophef over deze Engelstalige slogan destijds. Nu is dat een andere zaak. Dat gaat niet zozeer om VVD-posters in het Chinees of een VVD campagne pagina in het Engels speciaal voor expats. Maar het gaat om verkiezingsposters en flyers (!) in het Turks en Arabisch. Als service voor u kunt u er hier ook enkele bekijken:

Elsevier zegt in een artikel hierover:
Elsevier.nl – Nederland – PvdA-lijsttrekker Amsterdam voert campagne in het Turks

Ook de Nederlandse Moslim Partij heeft Arabische en Turkse flyers, terwijl de partij zegt vooral de kloof tussen moslims en niet-moslims te willen dichten en zich in te zetten voor participatie en integratie.

Het idee is daarbij dus dat het verspreiden van posters in Arabisch en Turks niet goed is voor participatie en integratie. Daarnaast is er het idee dat autochtone mensen zich ontheemd voelen doordat ze dergelijke teksten zien en wellicht ook omdat ze de teksten niet kunnen begrijpen hetgeen een vervreemdend effect kan geven. Ook één van de redenen waarom het Nederlands nu in de Grondwet zou moeten worden opgenomen. Een ander aspect dat een rol speelt (en dat met bovenstaande samenhangt) is natuurlijk dat er mensen zijn die vinden dat we in Nederland nu eenmaal Nederlands spreken; een verkiezingsposter in Arabisch en Turks gaat dan in tegen het idee van Nederlandse identiteit of cultuur die men heeft. Een aardige cartooneske illustratie ervan is die op LWH van Conan. Op een grappige manier wordt getoond welke stereotypen er zijn over Turkse Nederlanders en wat ‘wij’ Nederlanders natuurlijk niet willen en wat ook niet past bij het utopische idee van de Nederlandse cultuur.

In dat idee van cultuur en identiteit past kennelijk geen item in Turkse of Arabische taal; andere wereldtalen lijken minder problematisch te zijn net als andere dialecten in Nederland en het Fries.

Verder lijken deze Arabischtalige en Turkstalige posters vooral een symbolische verwijzing naar etnische identiteit. Het is een poging om een relatie te leggen met de etnische achterban via taal als symbool. Laten zien dat men toch echt dicht bij de etnische achtergrond staat door het gebruik van de ‘juiste’ taal. Denk maar niet dat alle Marokkaanse Nederlanders de Arabische tekst op de poster van de PvdA kunnen lezen. Het is de vraag of de partijen die dergelijke posters gebruiken zich wel realiseren wat de tegenreacties kunnen zijn en of zich dat uiteindelijk niet tegen henzelf keert. De nadruk op Nederlands heeft denk ik ook te maken met een toenemende druk om de openbare ruimte te controleren: van camera’s tot boerka-verboden en nu dus ook de druk om geen posters in vreemde talen op te hangen. De openbare ruimte moet gecontroleerd en gehomogeniseerd worden en uitingen van alteriteit verbannen.

Wat ik u verder vooral niet wil onthouden…zoek de taalfout: Copytijgers.


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20-02-2010
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Het is al een tijdje geleden dat we het nog hadden over IJsland maar we hebben dus nieuws uit het hoge Noorden:
http://www.cadtm.org/Les-Islandais-n-ont-pas-dit-leur


les Islandais n’ont pas dit leur dernier mot…

19 février par Jérome Duval, Olivier Bonfond


Après avoir plongé dans la misère les peuples du Sud en endettant leurs Etats, le FMI (Fond Monétaire International) s’attaque maintenant aux peuples européens, frappés de plein fouet par la crise capitaliste internationale. Les Agences de notations, outils au service de l’oligarchie financière, jouent quant à elles pleinement leur rôle dans la course à la rentabilité sur le marché de la dette, en n’hésitant pas à sanctionner financièrement les moindres faux-pas des pays affaiblis par la crise. Mais les islandais, en imposant un referendum sur une loi irresponsable et dangereuse, ne comptent pas se soumettre aussi facilement. Le combat est certes déséquilibré, mais il n’est pas fini …

Un modèle néolibéral qui s’écroule

Comme beaucoup de pays dits «riches», l’Islande a joué et a perdu au grand jeu du néolibéralisme. Considéré comme l’un des plus riches pays de l’OCDE, l’Islande a vu son taux de chômage passer de 2% avant l’effondrement du secteur financier en octobre 2008 à 8,2% de la population active en décembre 2009. Aujourd’hui, ce petit pays de 320.000 habitants sans armée, subit de plein fouet la crise financière, avec notamment une dette qui a explosé à près de 320 % du PIB en 2009 |1| .

Après les avoir privatisé en 2003, les trois principales banques (Kaupthing, Landbanski et Glitnir) ont dû être renationalisées de toute urgence en octobre 2008 à la suite de l’implosion du système bancaire. Les échanges sur les marchés d’actions ont même été suspendus plusieurs jours à la Bourse de Reykjavik. L’Etat, qui a déboursé des millions d’euros pour la reprise en main de ces banque |2|, est au bord de la faillite et prévient qu’il ne pourra garantir que les dépôts réalisés en Islande. Pris de panique, les épargnants étrangers réclament leur argent placé dans les succursales à Londres, Berlin, La Haye ou Bruxelles. Après avoir réglé le cas des 34.000 investisseurs allemands auprès de Kaupthing Bank, la plus importante banque du pays, Londres et La Haye indemnisent leurs ressortissants lésés par la faillite de la banque en ligne Icesave, filiale de Landsbanki. Ainsi, quelques 320.000 épargnants néerlandais et britanniques récupèrent en partie leurs placements grâce à la contribution de leur Etat. Quelle belle opération pour le secteur privé : d’une part les responsabilités des banquiers islandais et de leurs succursales à l’étranger s’évaporent via la nationalisation de leurs dettes, c’est-à-dire la reprise de celles-ci par les contribuables islandais, et, d’autre part, les spéculateurs britanniques et hollandais voient leurs placements risqués garantis par leurs Etats respectifs…

Althingi, Parlement Islandais, manifestation
Manifestation devant Althingi, le Parlement Islandais à Reykjavík

Une question se pose : comment l’Etat Islandais, vu l’état de son endettement, peut-il rembourser la Grande-Bretagne et les Pays-Bas sans mettre en péril sa population ? C’est pourtant ce que réclament avec insistance l’Union Européenne, le FMI et les pays concernés : l’Islande doit rembourser quel qu’en soit le coût humain. Le Royaume-Uni et les Pays-Bas qui insistent pour être prioritaires par rapport à d’autres créanciers, refusent tout compromis au sujet du montant à recouvrer.

Une loi imposée en catimini et qui fait insulte au peuple islandais

Austérité budgétaire, chômage en explosion, attitude agressive du FMI et de l’UE, … ces éléments provoquent une sorte d’électrochoc chez les citoyens islandais. Pendant plusieurs mois, des manifestations comme on en avait plus vu depuis plus de cinquante ans dans ce pays s’enchaînent. Tout comme celui de nombreux mouvements sociaux qui font face à la crise dans le monde, le message des islandais est relativement clair : « la crise, qu’ils la payent eux », « eux » ce sont bien entendu les responsables.

Althingi, à vendre / vendu au FMI
À vendre - Vendu au FMI

C’est suite à cette pression populaire que le Premier Ministre, Geir Haarde, déclarait fin 2008 qu’« il y a beaucoup d’arguments légaux qui justifient de ne pas payer». Dans le même temps, le Parlement adoptait une résolution annonçant que le remboursement serait conditionné aux «capacités de paiement» |3| du pays. De quoi préoccuper, pour ne pas dire angoisser, les bailleurs de fonds, dont le FMI. Ceux-ci agissent alors de tout leur poids en coulisse et renversent rapidement et subrepticement la situation : une loi d’indemnisation, dite loi Icesave |4|, a été approuvée dans la nuit du 30 au 31 décembre 2009 à une très courte majorité (33 voix pour et 30 contre) par le Parlement en pleine fête de fin d’année. Suivant les conseils du FMI, cette loi prévoit l’ouverture aux aides internationales, le rapprochement avec l’Union Européenne en vue d’une future adhésion et la restitution par l’Etat des 3,8 milliards d’euros d’argent public aux gouvernements néerlandais et britanniques (1,3 milliard d’euros aux Pays-Bas et 2,5 milliards d’euros au Royaume-Uni). Le fait que l’Islande puisse, par cette loi, rembourser une dette représentant près de 12.000 euros par citoyen, soit l’équivalent de près de 40% du Produit intérieur brut de l’île en 2009, rassure aussitôt les marchés et l’agence de notation Standard & Poor’s s’empresse de relever la perspective de la note de l’Islande de négative à stable. |5| Rappelons que les agences de notation exercent un vrai pouvoir discrétionnaire sur les finances des gouvernements en influant directement sur les primes de risque et taux d’intérêt : les plus «riches» et les plus solvables se voient récompensés par de bonnes notes (AAA, par exemple), agissant à la baisse sur les taux et donc sur la somme à rembourser. A contrario, les pays dit «pauvres», présentant un risque élevé d’insolvabilité, reçoivent de mauvaises notes et doivent rembourser plus d’intérêt en contrepartie d’un placement jugé «risqué».

Le peuple exige un referendum

Le président Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, après avoir reporté la signature de cette loi en soutenant avoir besoin de temps pour la promulguer, a reçu le 2 janvier 2010 une pétition de plus de 56.000 signatures, soit près du quart des électeurs du pays, demandant de rejeter cette loi et de la soumettre à un référendum. Magnus Arni Skulason, responsable du mouvement de contestation, explique lors de la remise des signatures : “c’est ainsi qu’on lui a remis cette pétition, pour lui demander de rejeter le projet de loi Icesave. Rien que le taux d’intérêt lié au remboursement permettrait de faire tourner notre système de santé pendant six mois.” |6|. Il semble que la pression populaire ait porté ses fruits puisque mardi 5 janvier 2010, le président annonce : "J’ai décidé, sur la base de l’article 26 de la Constitution, de soumettre la nouvelle loi à la nation". Ainsi, comme le prévoit la Constitution en cas de refus du président de promulguer une loi, celle-ci sera soumise à une consultation populaire. Consultation qui aura lieu le 6 mars 2010.

Les sanctions sont immédiates

Il s’agirait de laisser les citoyens décider de leur sort, alors qu’il y a de grande chance pour que cette loi injuste soit refusée ? Les marchés financiers, toujours aux aguets, réagissent au quart de tour et Standard & Poor’s menace, cette fois-ci, de rabaisser la note du pays, tandis que Fitch, l’une des trois autres grandes agences de notation, la dégrade (de BBB- à BB+) avec les conséquences que l’on sait : augmentation des sommes à rembourser pour un pays en difficulté de paiement, incitation à faire de nouveaux emprunts pour rembourser les anciens, pour, in fine, provoquer une accélération de «l’effet boule de neige» de l’endettement.
De la même manière qu’il impose ses ajustements structurels aux pays du Sud depuis la crise de la dette de 1982, le FMI dicte maintenant ses conditions ou «mesures d’austérité» aux gouvernements européens, afin de rendre prioritaire le remboursement aux créanciers quitte à amputer les budgets sociaux destinés à l’éducation, la santé, aux subventions aux produits de première nécessité, etc.

FMI et Union Européenne, même combat

Face à la situation périlleuse de l’Islande, le FMI et l’Union Européenne jouent de tout leur poids. Le FMI du « socialiste » Dominique Strauss Kahn, qui n’a jamais eu autant à sa disposition pour prêter aux pays en difficulté, attend d’être assuré du remboursement pour débloquer une tranche de prêt faisant partie d’un plan de sauvetage de 5 milliards de dollars monté en octobre 2009. Déjà bien avant l’adoption de la loi par le parlement, l’ultra libérale Union Européenne prévient qu’elle n’ouvrira ses portes de plus en plus hermétiques qu’en cas de soumission via le remboursement aux créanciers. «La Commission européenne a clairement pris fait et cause pour le Royaume-Uni, puisque son Président a indiqué dès le mois de novembre [2009] qu’il n’y aurait pas d’aide européenne tant que le cas Icesave ne serait pas résolu» (…) «l’Europe et le FMI s’apprêtent donc à accomplir un véritable exploit : ravaler un pays dont l’IDH (Indice de développement humain) s’était hissé en quelques décennies au plus haut niveau mondial au rang de pays pauvre… Conséquence : les Islandais, pour la plupart hautement qualifiés et polyglottes et travaillant beaucoup avec les pays nordiques, où ils sont très facilement assimilables, commencent déjà à émigrer (8.000 d’entre eux sont d’ors et déjà partis, ce qui est loin d’être négligeable)» |7|. L’Islande qui avait déposé en juillet 2009, une demande de candidature à l’UE, voit son processus d’adhésion compromis. Début janvier, le ministre espagnol des Affaires étrangères, Miguel Angel Moratinos, dont le pays vient de prendre la présidence tournante de l’U.E, martèle : "J’espère que les Islandais voient dans l’UE leur projet futur." |8|

La poursuite d’une ligne de crédit du FMI et l’adhésion à l’ultralibérale Union Européenne dépendent donc du remboursement d’une dette impayable pour la population, dette qui, une fois de plus, ne la concerne pas puisqu’il s’agit d’une dette privée devenue publique à la suite d’une faillite bancaire. Comme toujours, socialisation des pertes et privatisations des bénéfices est un leitmotiv du capitalisme. On remarquera d’ailleurs qu’il n’y a jamais autant eu de nationalisation totale ou partielle dans le secteur bancaire mondial depuis que celles-ci sont en difficulté…

La manipulation médiatique se met en marche

Dans un tel contexte de crise, on se doute de l’issue d’un référendum populaire : les islandais dont le quart des électeurs a déjà dit qu’il refusait le paiement d’une dette immorale et injuste rejetteront probablement le texte. Pour les dissuader, la machine médiatique s’est enclenchée : l’éloignement du FMI ou la non-adhésion à l’UE est impensable, un danger que le quotidien « de référence » français Le Monde écarte, « Car Reykjavik veut rembourser» et «le plan de sauvetage du FMI est crucial. Il reconstituerait les réserves de devises et fournirait les liquidités nécessaires au service de la dette envers l’étranger. Par ailleurs, l’adhésion à l’UE permettrait d’obtenir de meilleures conditions d’emprunt». S’il était besoin de rassurer le lecteur libéral en cas «de victoire du non», le quotidien ajoute : «De toute façon, l’Islande devra respecter les engagements approuvés en août 2009, tant par le Parlement que par la présidence : le remboursement débutera en 2017…» |9|

Les islandais n’ont pas dit leur dernier mot

Les islandais sauront-ils faire face à la déferlante médiatique qui s’annonce et rejeter comme lors du Traité Constitutionnel Européen en Irlande ou en France un projet néolibéral néfaste pour les peuples concernés ? Le FMI et l’U.E reviendront-ils à la charge malgré tout ? Quoi qu’il en soit, une chose est sûre : les citoyens sont en droit d’exiger un audit de la dette et de refuser de payer. L’Islande peut et doit refuser les conditionnalités imposées par le FMI qui s’empoche au passage les intérêts d’une dette illégale. L’intégration à une Union européenne qui est tout sauf au service des peuples, ne doit pas être une condition de plus à la négociation en cours ; elle doit être soumise à référendum. Nous soutenons le peuple islandais dans la répudiation de cette dette et insistons pour la mise en place d’autres mesures, telles que la saisie des bonus et autres avantages fiscaux de la classe capitaliste, pour rembourser les petits investisseurs. Ces derniers ont été trompés par des banquiers qui proposaient d’alléchants taux d’intérêts dans des montages financiers risqués. Pour les autres, spéculateurs en tout genre, ils doivent tout simplement assumer. Ils ont joué et perdu aux jeux hasardeux des marchés, et leurs pertes ne doivent en aucun cas être portées par les contribuables islandais. L’impôt des contribuables islandais doit au contraire servir des politiques visant la justice sociale et le respect de la nature. Par ailleurs, Gordon Brown doit sortir l’Islande de la liste des pays terroristes à laquelle il l’a inclus en octobre 2008 et présenter ses excuses au peuple d’Islande. |10|

Les Islandais n’ont pas dit leur dernier mot…

Notes

|1| Interview de Mark Flanagan, chef de la mission du FMI pour l’Islande : http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft...

|2| s A titre d’exemple, l’Etat islandais a déboursé 600 millions d’euros pour s’adjuger 75 % du capital de Glitnir, le 29 septembre 2009, avant d’en prendre l’entier contrôle quelques jours plus tard.

|3| Lire Olivier Bonfond, Islande : « si la dette ne peut pas être payée elle ne le sera pas » http://www.cadtm.org/Islande-Si-la-...

|4| Les islandais parlent avec cynisme de « Iceslave », slave signifiant esclave en anglais, avec l’idée qu’ils se rendent esclave de cette dette bancaire.

|5| http://www.investir.fr/infos-consei...

|6| Un quart des électeurs islandais signe une pétition contre la loi Icesave, Euronews 03/01/10 : http://fr.euronews.net/2010/01/03/u... Et Pétition contre la loi islandaise sur les dépôts étrangers, Reuters, samedi 2 janvier 2010.

|7| Eva Joly, députée européenne Verts et conseillère pour le gouvernement islandais dans l’enquête pénale sur les causes de la défaillance des banques : http://www.mondialisation.ca/index....

|8| Le Figaro, 8 janvier 2010, http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2...

|9| Londres et La Haye doivent faire preuve de clémence envers l’Islande, Le Monde, 7 janvier 2010, http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/arti...

|10| Le 8 octobre, Gordon Brown a invoqué la législation anti-terroriste de 2001 pour geler les actifs de Landsbanki en Grande-Bretagne et placer l’Islande sur la liste officielle des pays terroristes, aux côtés de la Corée du Nord et de l’Iran afin de mettre le gouvernement sous pression pour l’inciter à rembourser. Offusqués, les islandais ont lancé une pétition « Les Islandais ne sont pas des terroristes »; elle est signé par plus de 80.000 personnes (http://lisa.indefence.is/?PageID=1505)


20-02-2010 om 22:54 geschreven door Vorser-Raadgever  

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18-02-2010
Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Chernobyl, zegt u dat iets?
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Vandaag houden we het wreed simpel met de nadruk op wreed. We nodigen jullie uit om de de website van Magnum te bezoeken. Je weet wel die fotografen die overal prijzen halen enz enz...niet nadenken gewoon klikken...het is een reeks foto's die aanzetten tot enig denkwerk...het gaat over Chernobyl ...kijk dus mee...

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl

Dank voor de moeite, beste lezertjes,

18-02-2010 om 23:21 geschreven door Vorser-Raadgever  

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17-02-2010
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Beste lezertjes, we melden jullie dat onze Ollandse vrienden onze vriendelijke maar toch enigszins dwingende oproep tot steun aan de Egyptische blogster Amira Al Tahawi beginnen op te vangen.
Hier een mooi en degelijk blog dat al meteen tot daden is overgegaan en contact heeft gezocht met radio Netherlands:

http://religionresearch.org/martijn/2010/02/17/de-nederlandse-wereldomroep-maagdenvlies-en-een-ontslagen-egyptische-blogger-2/


De Nederlandse Wereldomroep, maagdenvlies en een ontslagen Egyptische blogger

17 February 2010 7 views No Comment

Enige tijd terug liet de Nederlandse Wereldomroep een Arabische vertaling zien van een Chinese advertentie voor de Artificial Virginity Hymen kit. Amira al Tahawi, werkzaam voor de Wereldomroep, liet echter op haar blog zien dat dit verhaal niet helemaal klopt. Het is een oud product, beschikbaar in Japan vanaf 1993 en niet speciaal gefabriceerd voor de Arabische markt. Het verhaal van de Wereldomroep bevatte volgens haar niet alleen onjuistheden, maar was haar ook kwetsend vanwege de verwijzing naar de ’schizofrenische situatie’ waarin veel moslima’s en Arabische vrouwen zouden verkeren als gevolg van het feit dat ze geen maagd meer zouden zijn (en dat zou het gat in de markt zijn waar de producenten van dit product in zouden zijn gesprongen). Haar kritiek is dus vooral dat hier op denigrerende wijze zou worden gesuggereerd dat dit product speciaal voor het Midden-Oosten is gemaakt waarbij het allerlei stereotypische veronderstellingen over Arabische en moslimvrouwen naar boven zou brengen en versterken.

Vervolgens vroeg zij naar eigen zeggen aan de Wereldomroep om het verhaal te corrigeren en werd daarna, ogenschijnlijk vanwege haar verhaal op haar blog, ontslagen.
Global Voices Online » Egypt: Blogger loses job for uncovering fake virginity story

Yes! I was fired over a blog post I published last December! On 26 January, 2010, I received a termination letter putting an end to my job as a Cairo correspondent for Radio Netherlands. In my post I proved that that station published false unverified information on 22 August, 2009, regarding the penetration of the Chinese “Artificial Hymen” in the Arab world. The information broadcast on the Radio said that the fake hymen is manufactured specially for Arab and Muslim women ignoring the fact that the product has been available in Japan since 1993 and it was not specially produced by the Chinese who realized the schizophrenic condition of Arab women who need to fake their virginity. I asked the station to correct the factual errors with that piece of fabricated news in an email dated 14 September. My request fell on deaf ears and many Egyptian news portals further spread the lie without bothering to investigate the facts or the sources quoted.

Inmiddels zijn er diverse steunbetuigingen voor haar, onder meer op Dr. Mostafa el Nagaar’s blog, Nawara Negm, Eman Hashim, Mostafa Fathi op Facebook, Karim El Beheiry en het Belgische Kitokojungle.

Nu staat de Wereldomroep bij mij niet bekend als een wereldwijde spitsnieuws online, dus heb ik de Wereldomroep twee keer om een reactie gevraagd. De Wereldomroep ontkent dat Amira El Tahawi is ontslagen omdat zij onjuistheden in de berichtgeving van de Wereldomroep zou hebben aangetoond. De Wereldomroep geeft aan dat zij altijd bereid zijn om onjuistheden te rectificeren, maar dat zij geen meningen gaan rectificeren die in een column op de site of een radio-uitzending worden geuit.




Dus volgens de radio is ze niet ontslagen omdat ze onjuistheden in de berichtgeving had aangetoond ...tja we hebben haar ontslagbrief hier al eerder gepubliceerd en daar staat inderdaad als ontslagreden in: "we have no other choice but to stop our cooperation. After a column on the RNW website you did not agree with, you started a 'campaign' against RNW on Facebook and in Egyptian newspapers. In those publications we see a total lack of commitment to RNW on your part, and that has resulted in a lack of trust on our part."
Concreet betekent dat dus dat je als journalist geen kritiek mag uitoefenen op verkeerde informatie van je eigen krant via een ander medium. Nou moe, bij de Ollandse wereldomroep hebben ze waarschijnlijk allemaal gestudeerd aan de Zimbawaanse universiteit en werden ze daar jarenlang gehersenspoeld. Want als buitenlandse medewerkers al nergens anders enige kritiek mogen spuien op onwaarheden zelfs wanneer die onwaarheden gedrukt staan in een medium dat hen soms tewerkstelt dan staan we wel erg zwak om als westerling nog de les te spellen aan allerlei dictaturen op andere continenten.
We moeten trouwens al eens beginnen met een onderzoekje naar de zogenaamde politieke blogs hier in Belgistan en Olland. We kunnen dan enkel vaststellen dat de meeste politieke blogs gewoon haatspuiende toogfilosofen zijn punt uit. Simplisme en eigen kerktoren troef...solidariteit ...nul. Alleen het eigen grote gelijk telt .... In de Arabische wereld en ook elders gaat het er toch wel wat kritischer aan toe. Hoogst eigenaardig want dat brengt ons wereldbeeld waarin vooral een zeer zelfgenoegzame eigendunk over het eigen westerse kritisch vermogen centraal staan fel aan het wankelen. Eerlijk gezegd en gezwegen is het niveau van de politieke blogs hier in vergelijking met wat we in de zogenaamde "ontwikkelingsgebieden mogen lezen, doodgewoon ondermaats. En dat terwijl hier toch een veel grotere vrijheid zou moeten bestaan.
We gaan er hier niet langer over filosoferen maar het aantal emoblogs in de zin van kankerpatiëntjes, zogenaamde relatietherapieën en andere gezever van de bovenste plank (zonder het onderliggende leed te willen minimaliseren) zegt ons al veel over het gebruik van het internet hier in het "rijke" Westen.
Maar het mag ons niet beletten om toch maar een dringende opropep te doen tot alle Ollandse blogs om hun solidariteit te betuigen met Amira!

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Hopelijk zijn de meesten onder onze Belgistaanse lezertjes veilig thuis gekomen. Speciaal diegenen die vandaag met de trein zijn vertrokken maar die enkel met een paar schaarse treinen deze namiddag zijn thuis geraakt. Een deel van het spoorwegpersoneel was spontaan in staking na het zware ongeval in Buizingen. Dit riep nogal wat wrevel op bij de reizigers wat begrijpelijk is maar we willen hier toch veel begrip opbrengen voor deze spontane acties. Kan iemend ons hier en aan deze stakers even komen uitleggen war de prioriteiten zijn in dit wondere landje? Want wij zien enkel dat er maasa's geld worden gestoken in stupoiede prestigeprojecten zoals het station te Luik maar dat er voor de veiligheid van het rijdend personeel en de reizigers nauwelijks nog een budget bestaat. Een fractie van de kostprijs van Calatrava's Luikse station zouden volstaan hebben om het ongeval van gisteren te voorkomen. Helaas is noch de politieke wereld noch een deel van het mangement geïnteresseerd in het omdraaien van enkele prioriteiten. Behalve in de officiële verklaringen; De werkelijkheid toont ons echter dat na het ongeval in Pecrot wel een aantal beslissingen werden genomen maar dat wegens te krappe budgetten de implementering werd uitgesmeerd over vele jaren. En zoals nu blijkt over minstens één jaar te veel! Wij begrijpen dus de frustratie van het personeel dat evenmin als wij, blind en stom is. Maar we gaan er hier verder over zwijgen en terug gaan naar ons eigenlijke onderwerp.

http://www.openarab.net/en/node/1615



The internet in the Arab world has a snowball effect; now that the snowball is rolling, it can no longer be stopped. Getting bigger and stronger, it is bound to crush down all obstacles.
In addition, to the stress caused by the Arab bloggers, a new forum was opened for Aran activists; Facebook. Arab activists have been using Facebook in the utmost creative way to support the democracy movement in the region, a region that has one of the highest rates of repression in the world. Unlike other regions where oppressive countries (like China, Iran and Burma) represent the exception, oppression can be found everywhere in the Arab world.
The number of Arab internet users interested in political affairs does not exceed a few thousands, mainly represented by internet activists and bloggers, out of 58 million internet users in the Arab world. As few as they are, they have succeeded in shedding some light on the corruption and repression of the Arab governments and dictatorships. The Arab governments have tried numerous ways to silence those activists with no success. So, now these governments stand helplessly in front of the power of these activists and the support they have gained from the public.

Getting Back at Journalists and Bloggers
Arab governments and their security agencies have been censoring and cracking down on traditional mass media such as newspapers (TV stations and satellite channels) seizing newspapers’ issues and stopping the emissions of TV channels. However, it’s hard to have the same control over the internet. The Arab governments can only ban or block a website after its content has been published, usually through RSS feature. Even if the website is bloc, governments cannot block its information; it can be found on other websites or blogs. For these frustrated governments, the only way to stop bloggers or activists is to punish and prosecute them. In fact, the number of the prosecuted and assaulted bloggers and internet activists largely outnumbered journalists, who also face the government’s repression. The difference between these two forms of repression is that journalists are penalized prior to publishing or airing their material, by simply seizing publications or not airing TV show, while bloggers and internet activists face repression after posting their work on the internet. Internet activists represent the largest number of prisoners of conscience in many countries, like Egypt, Syria and Tunisia.

Substantial Profits and Development Losses
It is very rare to find an Arab government without a ministry for communications and information. There is always a ministry that monitors this sector that includes internet and telephone services, both landlines and mobiles. This sector represents to the Arab governments a profitable business and whatever side affects it has, the citizens using to express their opinions and protest politically, it can be dealt with by the security agencies. The security agencies filter web content, block websites, tap phone lines and punish any rebels to the rule of the government.
Regardless of the statements issues or the conferences organized by the ministries of communications, Arab governments do not have a genuine interest in using this new technological revolution to create and develop a diversified, documented and reliable Arab content on the internet.
For example, Telecom Egypt’s revenue for the first nine months of 2009, ending in 30/9/2009, is 7742 million Egyptian pounds achieving a 3 % increase from the same period last year. The gross profit was 4175 million Egyptian pounds making a net profit of 2576 million Egyptian pounds in only nine months . At the same time, the Ministry of Communications threatened to take penal measures against mobile phone companies trying to offer cheaper service for its clients . In addition, there were around 100 cases of abduction and torture, and rape against internet activists in 2008. Therefore, Arab states don’t develop or participate in making technology but rather consume it.
In a study issued by one of the leading centers in political and strategic research in the United States, RAND Institute, it was stated that "the information revolution is real, and there is a small chance that this revolution would reach non-democratic communities. In these communities, this technology faces dictatorship that either abandons information technology and communication in their countries lagging behind, or allows this technology putting their regimes at the risk of withering away. In fact, the autocratic regimes have no choice but to give in and make way for the technology wave” .
A few Arab governments are striving to catch up with this technological revolution and become associated with it, such as the UAE and Kuwait. However, the aspiration of these governments is to increase the number of websites or increase their content. They miss that the technological revolution is measured by the change induced in society at cultural, and political, social and economic level. Nevertheless, this objective was achieved successfully by Arab internet activists.
This was stated in RAND Institute study: "The information revolution is not a game where you can pick and choose. All countries, nations, cults and cultures should be able to gain the fruits of this revolution. The fundamental part of the information revolution, the indispensable part, is freedom of expression, exchange of information and a universal access to information.”
Of course, the greatest hypocrite would not claim that the Arab governments respect or support freedom of expression or the right to access and circulate information. Consequently,
the gap between Arab governments and internet activist s is widening day after day. Governments are satisfied by taking the role of a policeman after these activists, while the activists are striving, through the use of the internet, for a democratic life.




een voorbeeld van akties van en door Egyptische bloggers naar aanleiding van het sectarische geweld dat een paar dagen geleden het leven kostte aan een aantal Koptische Christenen ....


http://egyptcorruption.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html



urgant:The Egyptian police arrested the activists during their visit to Nagaa Hammadi

The Egyptian police arrested today bloggers and activists during their visit to Nagaa Hammadi to offer condolences to the families of the recent events that happened there, and they arrested them as soon as they arrived to Nagaa Hammadi station,and they have also been beaten and verbally abused

The detainees were transferred In security cars and they took their IDs and phons

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They arrested

Ahmad badawy from al ghad part _ 6 April youth

Mostafa Al Nagar

Wael Abaas : Blogger - Misrdigital
Shahinaz Abdel Salam : Blogger - Wa7da Masria
Mohammed Khlaed: blogger - Demagh mak
Amira Al Tahawi
Ismail Alexandrani - Manasat
Marian Nagy Hana –Reuters - New generation
Basem Samir - Egyptian Democratic Academy
Basem Fathi - Egyptian Democratic Academy
Israa Abdul-Fattah - Egyptian Democratic Academy
Naser Abdel-Hamid - Democratic Front Party
Salma Akl – Democratic Front Party

Bola Abdo _ Democratic Front Party
Roaey Ibrahim
Hanan ( We Unknown her second name)
Ahmed Abo Zekry
Sherif Abd-Alaziz

The Egyptian government does not want national unity and wants to ignite the fire of sectarian sedition




Zoals de aandachtige lezertjes al hebben opgemerkt is ook Amira Al Tahawi bij de gevangenen. Amira Al Tahawi heeft reeds in 2008 een artikel over het sluimerend conflict tussen Koptische Christelijke en Islamitische Egyptenaren gepubliceerd op een Koptische blog:



Egyptian weekly accused of 'inciting sectarian war' PDF Print E-mail
Written by By AMIRA AL TAHAWI - menassat.com
Thursday, 03 April 2008

An Egyptian Coptic doctor is suing the prominent Islamic weekly Sawt al-Ummah for publishing a series of articles which he says inspire sectarian hatred between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities.

By AMIRA AL TAHAWI - menassat.com

Sawt Al Umma

CAIRO, APRIL 3, 2008 (MENASSAT) – Siti Zeki Shenouda, a Coptic doctor in Cairo, has brought a legal case against the chairman and editor in chief of the Islamic weekly Sawt al-Ummah (Voice of the Nation) for publishing a series of articles by two Islamist journalists that supposedly scorn Christianity. The complaint has been presented to the Public Prosecutor in Cairo under the heading, "Egyptian media and creating envy, religious extremism and terrorism."

Shenouda believes that the reports by Dr. Zaghloul al-Naggar and Ahmad Abdullah that were published in Sawt-al-Ummah inspire sectarian hatred between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.

According to Shenouda's statement, which was made available to Menassat, al-Naggar referred to the New Testament in one of his articles as a "falsified and non-divine book."

"The current New Testament is not true and the Old and the New Testament were not revealed by God; they are all human made," al-Naggar wrote.

Shenouda is also attacking Sawt-al-Ummah for publishing an interview with Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam (father of Islam), in which he accused Egypt's Coptic church of proselytizing.

Sex in exchange for conversion?

The two writers have previously said that Christians have planned missionary operations to divert Muslims from their religion by offering financial aid to poor Muslim citizens.

On December 10, 2007, Sawt-al-Ummah ran a front page article entitled, "Zaghloul al-Naggar throws a bomb: the Church is converting Muslims into Christianity." The newspaper also listed the addresses of what is said were "ten villas where they hold boys and girls after converting them with the help of foreign companies in the Maadi neighborhood."

Shenouda's complaint also mentioned another article in the same issue in which al-Naggar attacked a Catholic church and inferred that Christians are "insane."

"Go to Saint Marc Church on Sunday to see how they use people's poverty, sickness and unemployment to convert them. Christians should go back to sanity and cohabitate with Muslims. No power on earth will be able to turn Egypt into a Christian state."

Moreover, Shenouda pointed out that Sawt-al-Ummah has slandered Christian clerics. He specifically referred to an article published in Sawt-al-Ummah entitled, "Priests use all possible means to convert Muslims, including sex."

'Inciting civil war'

Following the publishing of the articles written by the Islamic journalists, the newspaper ran reactions and comments from Christian clerics and key players in Egypt's Christian community on January 18, 2008.

While the Christian figures were allowed to contradict the assertions made by the writers, some in the Coptic community considered it was not enough.

Shenouda has demanded the questioning of the two journalists along with the Chairman of the newspaper and its editor in chief "for the crimes they committed against the state, such as inciting to sectarian violence, scorning Christianity, Christian Copts, calling for their death and inciting to kill them, spill their blood, rob them and violate their rights and lives."

The articles could potentially "incite a civil war that would burn Egypt with both its Muslims and Christians," said Shenouda.

The complaint also includes articles from other Egyptian publications which Shenouda considers "harmful to Coptics" or that "ignore their suffering."

Moreover, Shenouda voiced concern over occurrences of violent acts against Christian citizens in different Egyptian districts throughout the year.

Champion of lawsuits

It is not the first time that Shenouda has filed a suit against Islamists.

Two years ago, he brought a legal case against Islamic writer Mohammad Amara for quoting writings by other religious scholars who have described Christians as "infidels."

Coptic Christians make up 10 percent of Egypt's population of 80 million. There have been sporadic reports of sectarian violence occurring in the country's sparsely populated areas.

Shawt al-Ummah is no stranger to lawsuits.

Since it was established by journalist Adel Hamouda seven years ago, the newspaper has been sued a total of 63 times, 37 times by governmental officials. On one occasion, six lawsuits were brought against the paper on the same day.



Nadat het sectarisch gewelod naar aanleiding van het Koptische Nieuwjaar 7 doden had geëist waren een aantal mensen hun solidariteit gaan betuigen met de slachtoffers en eveneens om tegen dit geweld te protesteren. Onder deze mensen die dan door de Egyptische politie werden opgepakt bevonden zich heel wat bloggers en politieke opposanten waaronder leden van het Islambroederschap en onze Amira Al Tahawi.
http://www.omct.org/index.php?id=&lang=eng&actualPageNumber=1&articleSet=Appeal&articleId=9057

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Arbitrary detention and subsequent release of 33 human rights activists

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Incommunicado detention / Release / Ill-treatments

Egypt

January 20, 2010

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Egypt.

Brief description of the situation:

The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources of the arbitrary detention and subsequent release of Messrs. Wael Abbas, Mostapha Al-Nagar, Ms. Israa Abdel Fatah and Ms. Marianne Nagy Hanna, journalists, Messrs. Sameer Awad Bassem, representative of Al Ghad party, Fathy Mohammed Bassem, representative of the Egyptian Democratic Institute, Sharif Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Mahmoud Mohammed Khalid, known as "Mac", and Ms. Shahinaz Abdelsalam, bloggers, Mr. Nasser Abdel Hamid and Ms. Salma Akal, members of the Democratic Front Party, Mr. Roaa Ibrahim, student, Mr. Ahmed Badawy Abdel Meguid, a member of the “Sixth April Youth”, Messrs. Ahmed Abu Zekry, Talaat Al-Sawy, Ahmed Mahmoud Mustafa, Ismail Sayyid Omar, Ahmed Fathy Mohamed, Hossam Saber Ali, Hanan Ismail, Hamada Abdel Fatah, Gamal Fareed, Mohamed Khalaf Mohamed, Al- Hosseiny Sayed Ahmed, Mohamed Hamdy Hassan, Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed, Heshmat Abdallah Mohamed, Ismail Eleskandarani and Tareq Sabry Abdallah, Ms. Nadia Al-Zeiny Barouni, Ms. Amira Al-Tahawi, Ms. Baula Abdo Ameen and Ms. Mona Fouad Ahmed in the Governorate of Qena.

According to the information received, on January 15, 2010, the thirty-three above-mentioned human rights defenders were arrested upon their arrival to the Egyptian Governorate of Qena, where they had travelled to express support with the families of the victims of the shooting that occurred on Coptic Christmas, between January 6 and 7, 2010, which left seven persons dead and incited tense sectarian protests in Egypt and to denounce sectarian violence and the human rights violations committed by the authorities allegedly to combat it.

The group of human rights defenders was told by the police that an arrest warrant had been issued against them on January 15, 2010, but none was shown to them. The group was detained incommunicado in the Qena Security Directorate, their lawyers being denied access to the Qena Security Directorate and told that their clients were not being held there.

On January 16, 2010, the group was released. According to the information received, no charges have been brought against them to date. But during detention, the group was threatened of prosecution for “violating the Constitution” and “constituting a group of more than five people inciting demonstrations” pursuant to the Emergency Law[1].

The detainees reported that Ms. Israa Abdel Fatah and Mr. Ahmed Badawy were subjected to ill-treatments during their arrest. Ms. Abdel Fatah was roughly grabbed by her arm and Mr. Badawy violently pushed. Additionally, the group was held in inhumane conditions, its members being given one single meal during their detention, and given neither bed nor blankets. While in custody, Mr. Tareq Sabry Abdallah suffered severe health conditions and had to be transferred to the hospital on three occasions.

Actions requested:

Please write to the authorities of Egypt, urging them to:

  1. Guarantee in all circumstances the physical and psychological integrity of the thirty-three above-mentioned human rights defenders as well as of all human rights defenders in Egypt;
  2. Carry out a prompt, effective, thorough, independent and impartial investigation into above-mentioned acts of ill-treatment faced by above-mentioned defenders during their arrest and detention, the result of which must be made public, in order to bring all those responsible before a competent, independent and impartial tribunal and apply penal, civil and/or administrative sanctions as provided by law;
  3. Put an end to any kind of harassment - including at the judicial level - against the thirty-three above-mentioned human rights defenders as well as of all human rights defenders in Egypt;
  4. Comply with the provisions of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1998, especially its Article 1, which states that “everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels”, and Article 12.2, which provides that “the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration”;
  5. More generally, ensure in all circumstances the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with international and regional human rights instruments ratified by Egypt.

Addresses

  • President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, His Excellency Mohammad Hosni Mubarak, Abedine Palace, Cairo, Egypt, E-mail: webmaster@presidency.gov.eg, Fax: +202 390 1998
  • Prime Minister Mr. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Nazif, Magles El Shaab Street, Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo, Egypt. Fax: + 202 735 6449 / 7958016. Email: primemin@idsc.gov.eg
  • Minister of the Interior, General Habib Ibrahim Habib El Adly, Ministry of the Interior, El-Sheikh Rihan Street, Bab al-Louk, Cairo, Egypt, E-mail: moi1@idsc.gov.eg, Fax: +202 579 2031 / 794 5529
  • Minister of Justice, Mr. Mamdoh Mohie E-din Marie, Ministry of Justice, Magles El Saeb Street, Wezaret Al Adl, Cairo, Egypt, E-mail: mojeb@idsc.gov.eg, Fax: +202 795 8103
  • Public Prosecutor, Counsellor Maher Abd al-Wahid, Dar al-Qadha al-Ali, Ramses Street, Cairo, Egypt, Fax: +202 577 4716
  • National Council For Human Rights, Fax: + 202 5747497 / 5747670
  • Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations in Geneva, 49 avenue Blanc, 1202 Genève, Switzerland, Email: mission.egypt@ties.itu.int, Fax: +41 22 738 44 15
  • Embassy of Egypt in Brussels, 19 avenue de l’Uruguay, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Fax: + 32 2 675.58.88; Email: embassy.egypt@skynet.be

Please also write to the diplomatic missions or embassies of Egypt in your respective country.


Paris-Geneva, January 20, 2010

Kindly inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code of this appeal in your reply.

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    en hieronder de officiële website van "the Muslim Brotherhood":

http://muslimbrotherhood.com/article.php?id=22668


Saturday, January 16,2010 22:58
by Joseph Mayton

CAIRO: The first batch of Egyptian activists and bloggers detained in Upper Egypt were released Saturday around 4:30 p.m. upon arrival back in Cairo after police had detained them near Nag Hammadi – the site of a January 6 shooting that left 6 Coptic Christians and one Muslim security guard killed in one of the worst sectarian crimes in recent Egyptian history. Ramy Raouf, a leading human rights defender and blogger, reported that the first batch of activists to be released including prominent bloggers Wael Abbas, Ahmed Badawy and Amira al-Tahawi and a few others.

They were part of a group of some 20 bloggers and activists who had made the long journey to Qena in southern Egypt to show solidarity with the families of those murdered on the eve of Coptic Christmas. Upon arrival, however, police were quick to arrest them. Early reports indicated a number of the bloggers were going to be charged with illegally demonstrating, but the public prosecutor apparently decided against taking any action and deported the activists back to Cairo.

“Police arrested them on arrival because they looked like they were not from the area,” said Raouf. “The police were not letting anyone who didn’t appear to be from the area into Nag Hammadi and the bloggers were simply taken away from the area without even having their names taken.”

Mustafa al-Naggar, a leading blogger and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, had led the mission to the southern Egyptian town in order to show support for the victims’ families.

But the Egyptian government would have none of it, arresting the bloggers upon their arrival. The visit, reportedly unpoliticized, was an attempt to show that different groups of Egyptians could come together in the face of growing sectarian tensions.

Naggar wrote that “we were cursed by the reign of an oppressive system that ruined our lives and harmony. We were robbed of our dreams and were left to suffer unemployment, fear, and deprivation.

“Egypt that was once a secure haven turned into a waste land. We are no longer safe in our homes for dawn visitors in uniforms can easily snatch us from our cribs. We are no longer secure in our streets for vagabonds and criminals can arrest us and harass our women. Today we witnessed how hitmen can easily shoot us as we finish our prayers.”

Zeinobia, another leading blogger not part of the mission, said that the bloggers are among the most prominent of citizen journalists.

“I do not understand why these bloggers have been detained,” she said in comments carried on Global Voices.

International human rights groups have chimed in with condemnation of the Egyptian government. New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a press statement on Saturday that the Egyptian government should be focusing on the perpetrators and the cause of the attack that killed people instead of bloggers who were doing no harm to the situation.

“Prosecuting those responsible for this vicious attack is an important and necessary first step,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East Director. “But if Egypt is to address seriously the festering religious hatred in the country, the government needs to implement a serious campaign of respect for religious diversity and equal rights for all.”

The deportation of the bloggers and activists have highlighted the difficulty of working in Egypt, especially on contentious issues such as human rights. A number of bloggers, including Abbas, have seen the heavy hand of the state in recent years, who have long pressured and even tortured bloggers for what they publish on their personal websites, human rights organizations in Egypt and abroad say.




Zo zal het intussen wel klaar en duidelijk beginnen te worden voor onze slimme lezersscharen dat de Arabische bloggers en hier specifiek de Egyptische bloggers vaak een voortrekkersrol spelen tegen de plaatselijke dictaturen.


Amira Al Tahawi is één van de meest actieve proteststemmen in Egypte wat daar geen sinecure is. Wij hebben de lastige neiging om dergelijke personen nogal te appreciëren. Ze riskeren tenslotte wel heel veel. En dan moeten we vernemen dat het land bij uitstek dat zich beroemt op zijn tolerantie en zijn vrijheid, Nederland dus ,zou toelaten dat mensen zoals Amira Al Tahawi wordt ontslagen wegens een artikel over synthetische maagdevliezen. Wel dat kan er dus bij ons niet in! Wij vinden dit een laffe daad een geniepige sluipmoord tegen iemand die ginds prachtig werk doet om een democratische samenleving op te bouwen gebaseerd op wat Nederland blijkbaar niet meer in voorraad heeft  VERDRAAGZAAMHEID. Foei Olland !










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Beste lezertjes we zullen niet zoals de meeste Belgistaanse blogs uitweiden over het spijtige treinongeval in Buizingen. Wij gaan verder met onze steun aan de Egyptische blogster Amira Al Tahawi die door de vileine Ollanders werd gedumpt...

Amira Al Tahawi is niet zo maar een toevallige medewerkster van Radio Netherlands. Zij is één van de meest actieve blogsters in Egypte en is blijkbaar niet bang om aktie te voeren . Een eigenschap die onze Ollandse buren nochtans zouden moeten weten te appreciëren en die de clichés over de Arabische wereld wat dooreen schudden in de koppen van de meeste van onze lezertjes. Meestal worden vrouwen in die landen als een soort wandelende mummies beschouwd die amper een mening mogen hebben in deze pure machowereld. Klopt dus niet. Het klopt evenmin om organisaties als het moslimbroederschap af te schilderen als achterlijke baardapen die iedereen willen stenigen. Hieronder vinden jullie hierover meer uitleg...
Zoals jullie al of niet weten vonden nog niet zo heel lang geleden gevechten plaats tussen Islamisten en Koptische Christenen die het leven hebben gekost aan een aantal Kopten. Dit sectarische geweld werd door het Egyptische leger onderdrukt maar bloggers die ter plaatse gingen om verslag uit te brengen en om op te roepen tot kalmte werden door het Egyptische leger gevangen gezet. Onder deze bloggers Amira Al Tahawi en een aantal bloggers van het moslimbroederschap maar jullie kunnen het beter zelf lezen in onze speciale bijdrage aan de Arabische blogs die we gedurende een paar dagen zullen publiceren. Kwestie van jullie een andere kijk te geven op onze Arabische medebloggers.
Eerst laten we dit blog aan het woord en jullie zullen waarschijnlijk al grote ogen trekken over de inhoud. Het staat nogal haaks op het beeld dat onze eigen media meestal ophangen. De blogosfeer broeit en gist ginds wel heel wat meer dan hier bij ons. Als we de politieke blogs op bloggen.be erop na lezen krimpt ons hart en moeten we toegeven dat de Arabische blogwereld heel wat boeiender is dan de Vlaamse bijvoorbeeld...


http://www.openarab.net/en/node/1638

Arabic Blogs

Overview

It never occurred to the Arab regimes , being as repressive as could be, that their ambitious plans to modernize the communications infrastructure to attract and increase investments in information technology and increase the number of internet users, will back fire. Those plans have resulted in a generation of bloggers and internet activists that bitterly criticize those regimes and stand against various violations and corruption and push forward for change.

Blogging started in 1999, it began to spread and have impact since spring 2003 with the American invasion of Iraq. Arabic blogs emerged in 2004. Starting in 2005, they were widely spread with the start of a political movement in the region and calls for change and reform, in which bloggers have played a prominent role and took part in advocating for change and raising political awareness, especially in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria.
Egyptian bloggers took the initiative, and were able to stretch the margin of freedom of expression in defiance to the Egyptian regime, by discussing political and social issues were considered previously as taboos. They managed to break the fear among a large segment of internet users, mostly young people and encourage them to positive political participation.

Blogging in the Arab world
The number of Arabic blogs, according to the report of the Information Decision Support Center of the Egyptian cabinet, is about 490,000 until mid-2008
Arabic blogs are hosted on different websites most important of which is www.blogger.com, which is owned by Google. In addition, to websites like www.wordpress.com, the website www.maktoobblog.com, an Arabic website that hosted in mid-2009 more than 91,000 blog from all Arab countries . As well as, some other websites that provide blogging service, such as Elaph, Jeeran , Katib, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and the blogs of the famous couple, Manal and Alaa.
According to estimates of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, which specializes in freedom of expression in the media and the internet, there are about 600,000 Arabic blogs. However, the active blogs are actually no more than 25%.
Arabic blogs can be classified quantitatively and per country. Egypt has the largest number of blogs that make up one third of the Arabic blogs, followed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco.
The blogging space is divided between the community of Egyptian secular bloggers and reformists and another that represents a gathering of writers supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is defined as "illegal" and banned by the Egyptian regime. Yet, it can be found repeatedly on the internet through young bloggers who declare their membership of the group and express their ideas spread through blogs and launch campaigns to defend Muslim Brotherhood detainees. In addition to other blogs that belongs to the Brotherhood that varies between literary and social blogs.
The Egyptian bloggers aim to break the political constraints through their blogs, which are renowned for its bitter criticism of the government in spite of the government's repression on them. In Saudi Arabia, blogging is focusing on personal rather than political matters. In Kuwait, the majority of blogs are in English. The Syrian blogs are quite similar to Saudi Arabia when it comes to the topic. The Moroccan blogs use a mix of the Arabic and French language. However, some bloggers who discussed political issues and revealed corruption cases served prison terms in Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
Arab bloggers use Web 2.0 and they link their blogs in various websites such as YouTube , Wikipedia and news websites such as Aljazeera.net and the BBC, followed by Al-Arabiya, and most recently the social networking website Facebook.
The age group that most widely uses blogs is between 25 -35 years amounting 45% of the Arab population. The Arab bloggers over 35 years are 9%, while females represent 34% of Arab bloggers.The highest ratio for female bloggers compared to male bloggers is in Egypt in the age group from 18 to 24 years, amounting 47% and the proportion of female bloggers in Saudi Arabia is 46% of Saudi bloggers . 83% of the Arab bloggers live in their homeland and often use aliases, especially among female bloggers.
In general, Arab bloggers write about local political issues and criticize the ruling regimes. They also discuss personal and religious issues which are among the main issues discussed and debated on Arab blogs. Human rights issues are also one of the most common issues discussed on blogs. An issue that all Arabic blogs and all Arab bloggers are all against is siege of Gaza, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, in December 2008 -January 2009.
Arabic Blogs: Voice Of The Voiceless

  • Blogging helped the various religious groups to emerge and represent their case to the Arab public opinion. For example, the Baha'is have used blogging to display their case and the defend their religious freedoms. The most famous Baha'i blog is An Egyptian Baha'i, http://egyptianbahai.wordpress.com, owned by an Egyptian young man in his thirties born in a Baha'i family. In his blog he discussed the problems facing him particularly obtaining official papers as well as lack of tolerance and resentment he feels when he declares that he is Baha'i.
    The blogger, Randa El Hoassani, her blog:
    http://rands1957.spaces.live.com/blog, is an Egyptian Baha'i activist. She was born in Port Said in a Baha’i family of the fourth-generation. In 1972, She was imprisoned when she was 14 years, for a month, with other Baha'is for contempt of religions
    Blogging has also helped the emergence of a number of codes for homosexuals since 2006, which allowed gays to express themselves and their point of view and confirm their presence in the Arab and Muslim communities in a realistic way rather than the stereotypical image that novels and films have been feeding the public over the years, prior to internet.The most famous of such blogs are:
    http://gayweekly.blogspot.com/ : a Kuwaiti blog
    http://saudigayboy.blogspot.com/ : a Saudi blog
    The blog Kareem Diary http://kareemazmy.blogspot.com
    Diaries of a lesbian woman.
  • Cases disclosed by bloggers
    Arab bloggers managed to play a key role in the political field pressuring the authority to act on several issues, such as torture in Egypt which became an attitude during the reign of Hosni Mubarak. It is practiced by police officers against citizens as punishment or to extract confessions or just as a show of power.
    Bloggers revealed incidents of torture and posted videos that show police officers torturing people in police stations. The most famous scene is the torturing of Emad AlKabir, a driver, who was tortured and raped with a stick by the police officer, Islam Nabih. The scene was recorded with a cell phone to humiliate Emad between his friends and neighbors. The scene propagated till it was posted on several blogs at the end of 2006. Among those blogs was that of Wael Abbass, www.misrdigital.com. Satellite media and the printed press were forced to discuss this incident , which turned to a public opinion case. The case ended with an unprecedented verdict; the officer Islam Nabih and Reda Fathi, the secretary of police, were sentenced to 3 years in prison .
    Other issues that bloggers have recorded and also turned to cases of public opinion:
    The issue of sexual harassment in Egypt; the blogs of Wael Abbas and Malek Mustafa , http://malek-x.net posted videos of sexual harassment, that occurred in downtown Cairo during Al Fitr feast in 2006, displaying of groups of girls being harassed.
    The videos stirred a lot of debate on satellite channels and newspapers, and resulted in highlighting the failure of police in protecting victims of harassment despite their presence in large numbers downtown at the same time of the incident. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior tried to deny those incidents even existed but a number of eyewitnesses and bloggers brought undeniable evidence that made the ministry take preventive measures .
    In Morocco, the blogger, Targuist Sniper, managed to disclose corruption of Moroccan police and the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie in 2007, where he recorded a number of bribes - receiving scenes and posted them on YouTube , after which they spread on blogs and were debated on international media. Unfortunately, this blogger was targeted by the police in Morocco.
    The success of the Algerian blogger, Rahalia whose job is sorting newspaper articles and delivering them to the Algerian Parliament Media Commission. As simple as it may seem, his job allowed him to access the archive of officials' announcements, decisions and related articles leading him to arrive at contradictions, manipulations and lies of official statements. He started writing articles on a limited scale on the internet uncovering those lies. Those articles, were all over the Algerian cyberspace and were successful to bring about change. Rahalia addressed the president himself, through his highly credible articles and documented writings, demanding him to freeze "the hydrocarbon law”, a project to privatize the state oil companies. The president announced before the cabinet that he was sure that this law was full of irregularities
    Other countries also witnessed a significant role for blogs in highlighting events and important political crises, such as Darfur crisis. The blog, Shabab Darfur, is one of the main sources that displayed the real situation in Darfur.
    Marahin blog , http://saltowayyah.katib.org/, in Oman, and Mowaten Emarati , http://emarati.katib.org/, in the UAE, as well as the famous blog of Mahmoud Youssef in Bahrain (http:/ / mahmood.tv /) as well as Moroccan blog; Ahjiouj.

Examples of violations against Arab bloggers
The Arab world is of the worst regions in the world in internet monitoring. Arab bloggers and activists are detained, prosecuted and even tortured. Arab countries are always on the list of internet enemies prepared by Reporters Without Borders. In its report of 2009, which included 12 countries in the world defined as “internet enemies”, 4 Arab countries were listed: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Syria.
There are dozens if not hundreds of bloggers who have been arrested and detained under the emergency laws, and even abducted and tortured, including:

  • The Egyptian blogger Ahmed Mohsen, 26 years, owner of the blog: Fatth Eineik , http://eyestillopen.blogspot.com, who was arrested in May 2009 and charged with “abusing the democratic atmosphere to overthrow the government" . ANHRI described this charge as a black comedy.
  • The Moroccan blogger; Mohammed Al Raji, was convicted and sentenced to prison because of an article he wrote that criticized royal behavior which he considers encouraging people to be reliant and passive.
  • Karim Arabji, from Syria, he wrote an article criticizing the Syrian authorities. Consequently, on 13/9/2009, Karim was sentenced to three years in prison for "spreading false news that weakens the sentiment of the nation”.
  • The Saudi, Fouad AlFarhan, is one of the famous bloggers. His blog is entitled Dean of Saudi Bloggers. He is known for his elegant writings and serious advocacy for reform in his blog , http://www.alfarhan.org. His slogan is "in search for freedom, dignity, justice, equality, Shura , and all Islamic lost values for Raghad and Khattab". He was detained by Saudi authorities for five months without charges and was never put on trial. Afterwards, he was released without giving any reasons for his arrest or release.
  • Rafat AlGhanem, a Syrian blogger living in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in July 2009 by Saudi security, without justification, and is still detained.

And many more:

  • The Egyptian Mossad Abu Fajr, owner of the blog, http://wednane3ish.katib.org/, is one of the main callers to stop discrimination against the Egyptian Bedouins of Sinai. Several charges have been fabricated against him by security. After investigations, the general prosecutor released him. Yet, security services arrested him again under the emergency law and he is still detained till this date in spite of more than 15 release orders that have been issued
  • Abdel Moneim Mahmoud, a blogger and journalist, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested, tortured several times and banned from travel. He was arrested allegedly for “disrupting public security”. The Arabic Network believes that the most important cause for detaining Moneim Mahmoud is to smear the good image of any member of Muslim Brotherhood group not what the government is claiming. In his blog, Moneim displays a different profile than the one provided by the government. He defends secularism and different ideologies, reveals torture crimes and participates in campaigns to support freedom of expression. Such an image is one which the Egyptian government is not willing to reveal .

Some Egyptian bloggers are still detained , the most famous case is the blogger Kareem Amer, who was arrested in November 2006 and sentenced in February 2007 for 4 years; 3 years for insulting the Islamic religion and 1 year for insulting the President. Kareem should be released in November 2010. He is serving his sentence at Borg Al Arab prison in Alexandria. Kareem Amer has been tortured in prison and is still subjected to harassment. He was deprived of visits several times in 2009.

In 2007, an Egyptian judge filed a case for blocking 51 blogs and websites on the internet, claiming they were terrorist websites and detrimental to the state, the police and the President. This law suit is an attempt to block all blogs and websites that revealed the judge’s theft of ANHRI report on the freedom to use Internet in the Arab world in 2006. The case has been refused in December 2007 .
In Tunisia, in August 2008, the Tunisian blogger; Zied El Heni, filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking Facebook until the website was unblocked on 2/9/2008.

Under the spotlight: Sami Ben Gharbia
Quiet a character, an intense blogger, and a strong defender of democracy. He managed to turn the internet into a tool to resist the autocratic regime in Tunisia. A lot of Arab bloggers followed him and non Arabs learned from him. He is inspiration to many since he is so creative in using the internet to expose oppression and corruption of the Tunisian dictatorship. His story started by escaping from Tunisia through Libya, Niger, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran in order to finally reach Netherlands, where he received political asylum .
This is Sami Ben Gharbia , the Tunisian blogger, creator of the map of Tunisian prisons , in which are used many Internet techniques in which he excels in order to show the cruel penal policy, which rendered Tunisia among the top states in the number of prisoners per population. The Tunisian government denied all punitive practices. However, the truth that Ghariba uncovered show that there are two version of Tunisia; the first Tunisia is the green one where tourists enjoys, provided that they shut up completely and have money, the other one is the a big prison for all opponents and human rights activist or even those concerned with the country. Second Tunisia raises some questions, where an answer will not be found, but rather silencing the mouth that uttered the question.
Sami Ben Gharbia uses the Internet creatively to expose corruption and the dark side of Tunisia. He introduced a film that traces the Tunisian presidential plane and its suspicious use in things not related to state affairs.

No wonder, Ben Gharbia has become a target for campaigns of slander and for fierce attack from the Tunisian government officials, agents, informants in overseas embassies.
By launching such campaigns they convey the message to their masters in Tunisia, they are doing their homework, no matter how these campaigns would lack sincerity or credibility. Some official told Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights, "Sami Ben Gharbia is a sincere young man who loves his country. He does not create or fabricate any of these scandals, he only reveals them" .
Ben Gharbia also revealed that, Ezz Al Din Hammadi, director of the tourist office at the Tunisian Embassy in Washington, reserved the domain name of presidential campaign of 2009 for the candidate Zein El Abidine Ben Ali since 2004, precisely 25 days only after the "victory" of Ben Ali in the presidential elections held on 24/102004.
As well as logging more than 80 domain names mostly all related to media, political and tourist structures in Tunisia! Ben Gharbia considered this the first semi-formal appeal to President Ben Ali to get nominate .



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Egypt

All This Hostility!

"Yes, we allow security agencies to tap the citizens’ personal calls, whether through mobile phones or landlines, this is case all over the world".
Tarek Kamel, Egyptian Minister of Communications, naturally .

Overview

For twenty eight years, Egypt has been ruled by Mubarak. Twenty years of an emergency state, torture and unfair trails. Democracy is declared by all the pro-government newspapers and only a small minority denies its existence. A minority that includes lawyers, judges, journalists, students, workers, farmers, doctors, university professors, engineers, clerks and Egypt’s poor. Apart from those, all other Egyptians are quite happy with such democracy and are truly thankful to God for it. Those happy Egyptians have nothing to do with Kefaya movement, the 6th of April strike, labor strikes, farmers’ uprisings or pensioners’ protests.

No one complains of poverty or hunger. This is evident in the overly populated prisons, which Egyptians go to it voluntarily, without being forced by the State Security Services. The State Security Services is loved by Egyptians. They feel its presence, whether they’re awake or sleeping.
The opening quotation of this report, by the Ministry of Communication, shows clearly that the Ministry of Communications’ role, like the Ministry of Interior, aims to serve the public.
The Ministry of Interior has been serving the people for many years by putting them in prisons to be takes care of and to vote for them in any elections. The Ministry of Communications taps their calls, to know their thoughts and dreams, and make them come true!

The Telecommunications Sector and the Internet
By the end of August 2009, the number of mobile phone users in Egypt reached 51.5 million users. These users are divided on three companies: Mobinil: 23.8 million users, Vodafone: 21.5 million users, and the most recent, Etisalat: 6.2 million users. By the end of 2009, the number is expected to exceed 55 million users.
The number of landlines is 9.6 million monopolized by the state-owned company, Telecom Egypt. Telecom Egypt owns the most important ISP, TE Data, which has more than half the ADSL market share. The number of internet users tripled from 5 million users, in 2006, to 15 million users in 2009 .
The increasing number of internet users and their skillful use of the internet, especially young bloggers, have contributed to the democracy struggle in Egypt. This development prompted the Egyptian government to take new measures to limit the number of internet users, while, increasing its profits. The Ministry of Communications proposed The Fair Download policy. The policy aimed to limit monthly downloads to 2 GB for the ADSL speed of 264 Kb under the pretext of fighting illegal connections . The Ministry retreated from this policy in summer 2007; however, it proposed the same policy again in 2009. Internet users fiercely campaigned against this new attempt. The media called it the “the internet users revolution”; many internet users called through forums and social networking websites called for boycotting the web on 10/8/2009 protested the free download policy proposed by the government and the ISPs.
The strong opposition led the Minister of Communications to admit that "illegal internet connections are not the problem, rather it is the increasing the internet usage” . This declaration prompted the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, INHRI, to call on the ministry of communications to abandon the policy of greed when dealing with internet users .

Internet Cafés
In February 2009, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics in Egypt stated that the number of internet cafés reached 4597 cafés and the total number of clients per week for these cafés is 804,270 clients with an average of 175 clients per café per week. While, the number of IT clubs was around 1776 clubs offering internet service to about 190,016 users per week .
ANHRI states that these figures include only the cafés that are registered. The total number internet cafés exceeds these figures. A lot of internet café’ owners avoid registration to evade bureaucratic complications and police encroachments upon internet cafés owners, especially in heavily populated districts. In addition, the middle class cafés offers wireless network, Wi-Fi, but those were not included in the study either.
On 9/8/2008, ANHRI uncovered that these cafés owners cooperate with the Ministry of Interior in violating the privacy of their clients. In these cafés, customers have fill out a form with their names, e-mails and phone number in order to access the internet. This information is given to the Ministry of Information enabling it to control the personal data of internet users violating their privacy.
As a result of ANHRI’s statement, tensions started to appear between the Ministry of Interior and the owners of these cafés. The Ministry stated that the cafés offered this information voluntary! On the other hand, the owners of those cafés admitted that they could not disregard security instructions. Consequently, the Ministry decided to back down from this illegal procedure. However, there are still a number of abuses, especially in poor areas. The police fabricate charges to close down a café or to force its workers to become informants to the police.

Blocking and Control
Egypt abandoned the policy of blocking websites which practiced by most Arab countries. However, the Egyptian government oppresses and intimidates internet activist in every possible way. This includes wiretapping, abduction, detention and torture of these activists.

Wiretapping and Privacy Violation:
In Egypt, where the police control all bodies and agencies, the telecommunications and internet sector is not an exception. However, controlling these sectors requires the cooperation of companies and staff in this field!
Indeed, three main service providers in Egypt are known to be cooperating with security. They violate the privacy of users’ and the sanctity of correspondence and calls, particularly of Egyptian political activists and reformers.
The three companies are, the state-owned Telecom Egypt that monopolizes landline service and is a major shareholder in the prime internet service provider TE Data. The minister of communications declared his vision on monitoring and wiretapping saying "we allow tapping as is part of the state’s role ”. He added that "wiretapping is not a simple matter; it is governed by rules and special technological capabilities. Although, the Ministry allows for some security agencies to tap calls, the state does not have the capacity to tap the calls of 40 million mobile phone subscribers ".
Since, the state does not have the capacity to spy on millions of mobile phone users, the second company, Vodafone, regularly hands over the data of customers who organize demonstrations against the government, like the bread riots .
Furthermore, Mobinil and Link, both owned by the same person, cards that are purchased at touristic cafés in order to access the internet violates the privacy of the customers of these cafés. Clients have to fill in their names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. The destination of this information is well known .

  • 1. Torture and Physical Assault
    Internet activists in Egypt are not excluded from the systematic and wide ranged torture of security services. Dozens of bloggers and activists of the 6th April movement had suffered torture and ill-treatment as a result of their intense work to expose corruption and repression. Examples of those tortures activists:
    Ahmed Maher, founder of the 6th April group on FaceBook.
    Diaa Gad owner of the blog Sout El Ghadeb; http://soutgadeb.blogspot.com,
    Mohamed Adel , owner of the blog Meit; http://43arb.info/meit,
    Ahmed Duma , owner of the blog Shaeer Ikwan;http://ikhwan-poet.maktoobblog.com
    Kareem Beheiri, owner of the blog Egyworkers; http://egyworkers.blogspot.com,
    The blogger, Kareem Amer, was tortured in prison , like many others who were tortured because of what they wrote on the internet.

2. Arresting Bloggers and Internet Activists
The Egyptian government tries to convince the West that the emergency law is used only against terrorists and drug dealers. However, this is far from the truth. Mossad Abu Fajr , Hani Nazeer, Diaa Gad, Abdul Aziz Hijazi, Shawky Ragab, Hani Abdul Rahman and Mohammed Refaat were arrested just for blogging and advocating for democracy.

3. Libel And Defamation
Many bloggers were charged of libel and defamation because of something they wrote on the internet. For example, the blogger Tamer Mabrouk, from Port Said city, owner of the blog Al Hakika El Masriya, http://elhakika.blogspot.com, was accused of libel and defamation for writing about a chemical discharging chemicals in the lake of Manzala lake causing deadly pollution. The famous bloggers, Manal and Alaa, owners of the blog Manal and Alaa, www.manalaa.net, were also accused of libel and defamation. Furthermore, Journalist, Ahmed Seif El-Nasr of Fayoum window, http://www.fayoumwindow.net, was accused of a fabricated insult and libel charge.
While, the number of fabricated libel cases against bloggers and internet activists is increasing, some of the bloggers are exposed to defamation and libel campaigns from some officials who just remain at large with no punishment. The blogger, Wael Abbas, has been subjected to an unfair smear campaign by a senior officer, General Ahmed Diaa Aldin, who instead of being punished for his unjust accusations against Abbas and for insulting and defaming him on TV programs, the Egyptian government rewarded him by appointing him governor of Minya .

4. Seizing Computers
Every police raid, whether legal or illegal (the latter is the most common), against internet activists, must result in seizing their computers that often disappear and never recovered. The Ministry of Interior does not try to find the place of those belongings which increases the corruption in the Ministry. Examples of bloggers whose computers have been seized are: Mohamed Adel, AbdAlAziz Mujahid, Wael Abbas, Mohammed Yakut, Reda AbdAlRahman, Khalifa Obaid and Mohammed Refaat. It is claimed that the Ministry of Interior started a secret investigation about the computers that were seized from the homes of those activists or in airports, like Wael Abbas, but, ANHRI cannot affirm such information yet.

Site blocking Lawsuits:

During the past three years, Egypt has witnessed two important cases which have had significant impact on the freedom of internet use in the country:

1. Judge Abdel Fattah Murad and the case of blocking 49 websites:
In December 2006, ANHRI issued its second report on the freedom of internet use in the Arab world under the title An Unyielding Opponent: The Internet and the Arab governments. The report was printed, distributed and posted on ANHRI’s website .
In February 2007, while searching the market for legal references that may help in Kareem Amer’s case, ANHRI’s lawyers purchased a book for the judge Murad entitled Scientific and Legal Principles of Blogs on the Internet. It was a surprise to find that dozens of pages were an exact replica of ANHRI’s report published in December 2006. The lawyers tried to persuade Judge Murad to apologize for such dishonest reproduction, an intellectual property crime, a charge so degrading for a judge and a PhD holder. However, The judge refused and began fabricating cases against ANHRI at first and then against several bloggers and human rights organizations who have expressed solidarity with ANHRI and supported its right to punish the judge for violating intellectual property. ,
The judge fabricated a new important case. He requested the blocking of 21 websites including e-papers, blogs, and local and international human rights organizations sites. Those websites published the intellectual property crime committed by Murad and a copy of ANHRI’s report. Murad claimed in his case against the Ministry of Communication that those websites should be blocked as they “support terrorism” and “smear the state’s reputation”
As a result, bloggers and activists launched a counter campaign uncovering Murad’s crime. So, he decided to increase the number of websites to be blocked to 49. However, the decision of the Administrative Court was a strong blow to the judge and to internet police that supported him. The case was rejected and the court upheld the freedom of expression in Egypt .
The Supreme Administrative Court is still reviewing the appeal submitted by Murad who tried to cover his intellectual property crime by another crime against freedom of expression on the Internet.

2. Blocking Adult Websites
On 12/5/2009, the Administrative Court issued a decision, in regards to a case filed by an Islamist attorney, demanding the Ministry of Communications to block adult websites on the internet in Egypt without defining adult websites or the body responsible for blocking these websites. Defining pornography will be left to clerks in the Ministry. This may lead to the blocking of historical, literary and artistic websites. A site may be blocked because of an image, a word or a verse from a poem.
Although, the minister of communications declared that blocking all these websites is difficult, conservatives, extremists and the enemies of the internet have started to put pressure on the Egyptian government to implementing the court’s decision even before the Supreme Administrative Court has reviewed the submitted appeal.




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