Posts Tagged ‘Une – Internet – 1’

Reporters Without Borders condemns the Vietnamese public security ministry's decision to prevent the well-known blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh from travelling abroad. Winner of the 2013 Netizen Prize, which Reporters Without Borders awards annually with support from Google, Chenh and his daughter were stopped at Ho Chi Minh City airport as they were about to board a flight to the United States on 10 May. Reporters ... Full story

In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan criticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese citizen-journalist and blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Like his compatriots Ta Phong Tan and Nguyen Hoang Vi, Chenh was singled out for his defence of freedom of the media and information in Vietnam and for the courage ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the Manama prosecutor-general's 25 December decision to hold human rights defender Sayed Yousef Al-Muhafda for another two weeks on a charge of posting false information on Twitter. Arrested on 17 December, Muhafda is currently being held in an isolation cell in a police station in the northeastern suburb of Hoora. One of the accusations against him is ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the Coptic Christian blogger Albert Saber Ayyad was finally released on bail on 17 December and urges the judicial system to overturn his conviction on appeal. When a Cairo suburb court sentenced Ayyad to three years in prison on a charge of “denigrating religions” on 12 December, his lawyer, Ahmed Ezzat, a member ... Full story

The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) ended in disarray on 14 December after two weeks of often chaotic negotiations. On 13 December, less than half of the members of the International Telecommunication Union – the UN agency that organized the conference – (89 of 193) signed a new treaty revising the ITU's International Telecommunications Regulations. But a coalition of 55 member states including the ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The Saryarka regional court of Astana prohibited the US-produced anti-Islamic video "Innocence of Muslims" yesterday in Kazakhstan on the grounds that it was "extremist." The ministry of transport and communication requested the ban on its importation and distribution via the Internet. Its dissemination has been prohibited since 1 October in Russia, where it is to be added to the list of ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the appeal court rulings issued during the past two weeks that uphold the prison sentences passed on a total of 28 netizens last summer. “These arbitrary decisions represent a new stage in the sultanate's determination to gag netizens whose only crime was to exercise their right to express opinions and provide information about the policies of the ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) raise their concerns about online freedom in Cambodia as the Minister of Telecommunications, So Khun, signed a circular on November 16th, 2012, to regulate the use of Internet in the country. According to the decree issued by the ministry, Internet cafes cannot be located within 500 meters of a school or allow their ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch publish jointly today a press release calling the European Union to enact new controls on Internet surveillance and censorship technologies. Repressive governments use these technologies to enable human rights violation. Reporters Without Borders had publish earlier a position paper, on occasion of the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, calling on the EU Commission to make surveillance and censorship ... Full story

Syria has been back online since December 1st at about 14:30 GMT. Some Internet users have been using VPNs and the TOR network. Psiphon has confirmed it is being used by people inside Syria. However, Internet seems not to be accessible everywhere in the country yet. Friday, November 30 Devastating blow to news coverage in Syria Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Internet, landline phone, mobile phone ... Full story