Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on March 12, 2012) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions that is accessible to all.
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In this interview cyberactivists Ameer and Syrian Thinker talk about the Syrian government’s current surveillance of Twitter, the groups of activists known as “coordinations” that disseminates news via Twitter and Facebook, and the methods Syrian bloggers use to work around the government’s censorship.
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A selection of statements, views and information posted to social media outlets as the news that The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, French photojournalist Rémy Ochlyc, and Rami al-Sayed, a Syrian citizen journalist, had been killed during shelling in the city of Homs.
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the Syrian government’s refusal to allow the evacuation of French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, and British journalist Paul Conroy, from Homs, along with the bodies of slain journalists Marie Colvin and Remy Ochlik.
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Every year from November to February English PEN releases a list of writers in prison, and provides addresses or email addresses for each of them. This part of the program Season’s Greetings, which calls on people to send a card to one of the many writers in prison that PEN supports.
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Numerous stories have emerged about how pervasively the Syrian regime patronizes American companies. Export restrictions are failing to serve the purpose for wich they were intended: preventing the Syrian regime from doing more harm to its citizens.
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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.
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