Background Egypt has taken several steps toward greater political freedom since the beginning of President Hosni Mubarak’s administration in 1981, including amending its constitution to allow multiple candidates to run in presidential elections.1 However, an emergency law in...

Whilst attending the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the OpenNet Initiative (along with partners of ONI Asia) gathered to present their upcoming book, Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. A poster advertising the...

PDF Version Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Egypt. Overview Currently there is no evidence of Internet filtering in Egypt, although a small group of politically sensitive Web sites have been blocked in the past. Online...

An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt. In determining...

On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...

As spite spurs activism among the nation’s youth, Egypt contemplates banning Facebook- the infamous Social Networking Site (SNS) that has taken the country by storm. The rising food prices and consequential rise in cost of living in Egypt has caused a great...

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...

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...

A 22-year-old student blogger was arrested by Egyptian security forces for Arabic postings critical of Islam and the government. ...