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Saudi Arabia – University professor held over Internet article about royal family
Reporters Without Borders condemns law professor Mohammed Abdallah Al-Abdulkarim’s detention in Riyad since 5 December for writing an article for a website about splits within the Saudi royal family. Abdulkarim, 40, was arrested at his home by four men with no warrant on 5 December, 12 days after posting an article on the Royaah.net website (http://royaah.net/) about 86-year-old King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud’s departure for the United States for medical reasons. It referred not only to (…)
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China – Imprisoned journalist’s family being hounded in run-up to his release
Reporters Without Borders deplores a new wave of arrests and harassment in Inner Mongolia in the run-up to the release of journalist and human rights activist Hada, due to take place on 10 December when he will have completed a 15-year jail sentence. “The authorities are resorting to crude ploys in an attempt to prevent the release of Hada, a defender of Mongol ethnic minority rights, from receiving any publicity,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We call for the immediate release of his wife (…)
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- WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites. “WikiLeaks is currently under heavy attack,” the site said in a message posted yesterday. “In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove WikiLeaks from the Internet, we need your help. If you have a Unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to (…)
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- Wikileaks hounded?
Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Earlier this week, after the publishing several hundred of the 250.000 cables it says it has in its possession, WikiLeaks had to move its site from its servers in (…)
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Iran – Talks on nuclear programme cannot ignore terrible situation of human rights and free speech
Reporters Without Borders has written to the foreign ministers of the six countries conducting negotiations with Iran about its nuclear programme – Germany, China, United States, France, Britain and Russia – urging them to raise the subject of freedom of expression in Iran with their Iranian counterpart when talks resume next week. Sent on 21 October, the letter voices “deep concern” about the methods used to suppress free speech, mentioning “the arrests and convictions of journalists, bloggers (…)
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Bahrain – Hillary Clinton urged to press for release of detained netizens during visit
Reporters Without Borders wrote to U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton ahead of her upcoming visit to Bahrain voicing deep concern about the situation of freedom of expression and human rights in the Gulf state. The trial of 25 human rights activists and opposition supporters who were arrested in August and September began on 28 October. Two follow-up hearings have since been held, on 11 and 25 November. The defendants include Adeljalil Al-Singace, a blogger and academic who heads the (…)
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Egypt – Jail sentences, arrests and harassment all used to restrict media freedom
Military court sentences blogger to six months in prison Reporters Without Borders condemns the six-month jail sentence that a military court imposed on blogger Ahmed Hassan Basiouny on 29 November on charges of disseminating defence secrets online and “disclosing information relating to the Egyptian armed forces.” Basiouny was arrested for creating a Facebook page in 2009 that provided advice and information for young people thinking of enlisting in the Egyptian army. Parliamentary (…)
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- European Parliament adopts pro-ACTA resolution
A pro-ACTA resolution hailing the progress made in the accord’s negotiations was adopted by the European Parliament on 24 November by 331 to 294 votes and 11 abstentions. In the resolution, which aims to pave the way for ratification, the parliament says it was “fully aware that the agreement negotiated will not solve the complex and multi-dimensional problem of counterfeiting” but regarded it as “a step in the right direction.” It also reiterated that “combating counterfeiting is a priority in (…)
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Azerbaijan – Interview with the newly-released video blogger and netizen Adnan Hajizade
Newly-released video blogger and netizen Adnan Hajizade has told Reporters Without Borders in an exclusive interview he is still finding it hard to assimilate the fact that he is “finally a free man” again but he intends to continue blogging because “every opinion counts.” Interviewed on 25 November, he stressed the importance of international pressure in obtaining his release on 18 November (read the article). But he added that the real reason why he was freed and why he was arrested in the (…)
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China – Debate on Internet censorship censored
It is only logical that an article about online censorship would be censored. But last week’s censorship of such an article by the Shanghai-based business weekly Diyi Caijing Zhoukan (第一财经周刊- cbnweek.com) has again highlighted the extremes to which the propaganda agencies go to ensure that any discussion of the way the Communist Party censors the Internet is nipped in the bud. The case is all the more important after the allegations in the U.S. diplomatic cables leaked at the weekend that the (…)
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Syria – Young woman blogger brought before special security court
Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that Tal Al-Mallouhi, a 19-year-old student and blogger who has been detained for the past 11 months, is to be tried before a special security court whose verdicts cannot be appealed. Brought before the high court for state security in Damascus on 10 November, Mallouhi is reportedly accused of spying on behalf of the United States. She is being held in solitary confinement in Duma prison, near Damascus, where her family has been allowed to (…)
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China – Woman sentenced to a year’s forced labour over one ironic tweet
Reporters Without Borders urges the Chinese authorities to rescind the sentence of one year of “reeducation through work” that has been imposed on a 46-year-old woman, Cheng Jianping, for relaying a comment on Twitter. It is believed to be the first time that someone has been sent to a labour camp in China because of a tweet. “Cheng Jianping just retweeted an ironic comment on a subject that touches the sensitive chord of Chinese nationalism,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This was not (…)
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Azerbaijan – Second blogger freed, one day after his colleague
The blogger Emin Milli was released today by a Baku appeal court, one day after his friend and fellow blogger, Adnan Hajizade, was freed. The court ruled that the remaining 14 months of his 30-month jail sentence were “suspended.” Milli and Hajizade were arrested on a trumped charge of hooliganism in July 2009 because a satirical video that had been posted online. They were sentenced in November 2009 to 30 and 24 months in prison respectively. Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call (…)
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Egypt – Trial by court martial for creating Facebook page for would-be army recruits
Reporters Without Borders condemns blogger Ahmed Hassan Basiouny’s trial by court martial, which is scheduled to take place tomorrow, and calls for the immediate withdrawal of the charges against him. He is the second blogger to face a court martial in Egypt. Basiouny is being prosecuted for creating a Facebook page in 2009 that offered advice and information to young people thinking of enlisting in the Egyptian army. He is charged under articles 80 1/2 and 85/3 of the criminal code and (…)
