Posts Tagged ‘censorship’

الحريات تتراجع في مصر تحت حكم العسكر

Egypt’s military clamp down on bloggers

Diagram: Egypt’s #Jan25 telecommunication shutdown

Activist Ramy Raoof has put together a timeline of the state’s telecommunication shutdown during the uprising. Click on the diagram above to enlarge.

آخر كلام: صحفيون أمام القضاء العسكري

The Almighty Taboo

See how the “revolutionary” TV presenter Mahmoud Sa’ad freaked out (6:30) when I mentioned that the army, as a public institution which receives government budget from tax payers’ money, should be put under the monitoring of the people and held accountable for its actions like any other state institutions. How pathetic, especially when this comes from “Tahrir TV.”

Goes to show we only replaced the Mubarak’s taboo with that of the army. Journalist Ibrahim Eissa, diplomatically, supported my position, in the video below.

General Rushdi el-Qamari اللواء رشدي القمري

During the uprising, the regime took down the internet from the night of 27 January till 3 February, after blocking websites like Twitter and Facebook on the previous day. The government also took down the mobile phone networks and SMS, with the complicity of the three operators Mobinil, Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, as well as internet service providers like TE DATA.

The government body that orchestrated the blackout was the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), headed by the former Telecommunication Minister Tarek Kamel (whose brother Cairo University President Hossam Kamel is currently the target of an impeachment campaign by faculty staff and student protesters over his ties to the Mubarak regime), together with representatives from the police, Mukhabarrat and government officials.

From SS Officers

The Interior Ministry’s representative on the board of NTRA during the revolution was General Rushdi el-Qamari, whose profile pictures I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs.

Little I managed to find out about the career of General Rushdi Mohamed Sayyed Ahmad el-Qamari, before he became the head of the General Administration of Police Communications in July 2010. But usually heads of such sensitive departments in the interior ministry come from the ranks of State Security Police, especially as he assumed the membership of the NTRA board, sharing seats with the Mukhabarrat.

Essam Sharaf’s cabinet has come out few days ago saying the regime’s shutting down of telecommunications was “inappropriate.” But has anyone been held accountable? What happened to NTRA board members, including General Qamari? Have they been investigated? Do they still keep their posts? Or are we continuing with the musical chairs game?

Flickr censors SS officers pix موقع فليكر يمسح صور ضباط أمن الدولة

The set of State Security Police officers was taken down by the flickr administrators because of “copyright infringement”!!!

UPDATE: You can download the pictures here…

#Jan25 Even China fears our domino effect

Police in southwest China have barred activists from distributing leaflets about anti-government protests in Egypt and Tunisia, deeming the news too sensitive, one dissident said Wednesday…

#Jan25 Cyber-crackdown continues

Blackberry service has been shut down by the Egyptian government.

Twitter unblocked

It seems Twitter has been unblocked finally in Egypt. I’ve just tested the service without a proxy.