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Истории за Близкия изток и Северна Африка от юли , 2012 Бахрейн: Възрастни мъже арестувани за “защита на жени от полицията” Напредналата възраст не имунизира срещу арестуване за участие в "непозволени" протести в Бахрейн, където демонстрациите се санкционират от държавата. Според интернет граждани, двама възрастни мъже са... Сирия: Клането в Траймсе предизвика гняв и тъга Миналата година, в навечерието на свещения месец Рамадан, сирийските сили, лоялни на режима на Башар ал-Асад, избиха около 45 цивилни в централния град Хама. Syria Files: Още западни технологии за сирийския режим Западна технология играе ключова роля в подсигуряването на сирийския режим с инструменти за проследяване и репресия на граждани, и това в продължение на години. Най-новите...
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Latest posts by Leila Nachawati Syria Files: More Western technology for the Syrian regime Western technology has played a key role in providing the Syrian regime with tools to track and repress citizens for years. The latest Wikileaks files on Syria, which include more than two million emails from political figures and companies, reveal that the involvement of Western companies in the crackdown against Syrian citizens has continued despite sanctions and international pressure. 15 November 2011 US and European firms help Syrian regime spy on citizens To track and surveil citizens online, repressive regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have relied on Western technology for years. US company BlueCoat has been accused for months of providing the Assads with products for online crackdown, and the firm finally acknowledged that the Syrian regime has been... 28 October 2011 Detained Bloggers and Journalists in Syria: The List Gets Longer Since the street protest movement began in March 2011 in Syria, threats and physical attacks against journalists have increased. The list of detained bloggers and journalists gets longer and includes foreign journalists arrested and deported. Among the latest, prominent blogger and programmer Hussein Ghrer, who disappeared on October 24. 26 October 2011 Syria: Prominent Blogger Disappears in Damascus Syrian blogger Hussein Ghrer left his home in Damascus on Monday, October 24, and has not come back. He is a thirty-year-old married father of two. The most recent post on Ghrer's blog focuses on the arrest earlier this year of now-released Syrian blogger Anas Maarawi in the context of freedom in Syria. 10 October 2011 BlueCoat: US technology surveilling Syrian citizens online In the context of repression in the Middle East and North Africa, surveillance technology has played a key role in providing authoritarian regimes with the tools necessary to track citizens online. Among these companies, BlueCoat has proved to be the most efficient in helping the Syrian regime control every movement of Syrians on the Internet. Bahrain: Leading blogger Ali Abdulemam sentenced to 15 years in prison, along with other human rights defenders Nine months after leading blogger and human rights activist Ali Abdulemam was arrested along with other political and human rights activists in Bahrain, a military court has sentenced him to 15 years in prison. The rest of activists face sentences that range from two years to life imprisonment, in... Syrian uprisings and official vs. decentralized communications The world looks at Syria for the first time in decades, while hundreds of thousands of citizens demonstrate against the regime that has ruled the country for almost 50 years. While hundreds of protesters were killed according to many reports, the official version shows quite a different picture. The gap...