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  • United Arab Emirates Arrests Activists, Bans BlackBerry Services
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 01 Aug 2010
    Categories: United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Privacy, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software
    On July 29th, Reporters Sans Frontiers reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested one BlackBerry user, detained another, and are pursuing five activists.
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  • Lebanese Facebook Users Arrested for Defaming President
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 06 Jul 2010
    Categories: Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Defamation
    Lebanon arrested 3 individuals (Naim George Hanna, Antoine Youssef Ramia, Shebel Rajeh Qasab), and Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza issued an arrest warrant for a fourth (Ahmed Ali Shuman) for slander and defamation of President Michel Suleiman on Facebook.
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  • #iranelection Censored? Evaluating Twitter's Trending Topics
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 28 Jun 2010
    Categories: Iran, Asia, Search result removal, Political filtering

    Following the anniversary of the Iran election protests on June 12th, Iranian reform protesters began accusing Twitter of censoring #iranelection when the hashtag did not trend on the site that day.

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  • Stop This Law - Internet Regulation, Surveillance, and VOIP in Lebanon
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 21 Jun 2010
    Categories: Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Surveillance

    Global Voices Online and the Social Media Exchange (SMEX) report that Lebanese activists organizing under the slogan Stop The Vote have managed to postpone parliamentary voting for one month (starting June 15) on what they see as a disturbing e-Transactions law. This law, which they see as "[threatening] to create a more restrictive or at least more monitored online environment in Lebanon" has a few troubling articles.

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  • Turkey Blocks YouTube, Inadvertently Blocks Google Services
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 08 Jun 2010
    Categories: Turkey, Political filtering, IP blocking
    Turkish internet users have been tweeting that that they have been unable to access some Google Services over the past few days, using the hashtag #TurkeyCensorGoogle.
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  • #Flotilla Censored?
    By: Sarah Hamdi
    Date: 02 Jun 2010
    Categories: Israel, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering
    Tweeters and observers The Guardian, TechCrunch, and The Arabist have been wondering if Twitter censored hashtag #Flotilla and search term "flotilla" when it began trending on Sunday night.
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