Bahrain continues its crackdown on the country’s human rights advocates, adding Zainab Al Khawaja amongst its growing list of political prisoners, many of whom underwent severe psychological abuse, sexual humiliation and physical torture. Zainab is one of Bahrain’s most prominent …
Posted in Activism, Bahrain, Censorship, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights | Tagged Bahrain | Leave a commentBelow are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Leave a commentMilitarists told me that my case differs from the case of Alaa Abd El Fattah, because Alaa isn’t tried as being a political activist… I look in their eyes and ask them, …“Is it a confession that I am being …
Posted in Bad news, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, News and Politics | Tagged Maikel Nabil | 5 CommentsRojin Mohamadi has been arrested upon her return to Iran. She is a Human rights activist, and has been vocal about the Iranian regimes failures, especially Iran’s human rights record. She was arrested on the 14th of November, and later …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurds | Tagged Iran, Kurds | Leave a commentEgyptian protests against The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for the past week have been ongoing in multiple cities, more than 3,500 have been injured, and at least 30 people have been killed by Egyptian police. Mona Eltahawy …
Posted in Censorship, Civil Rights, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights | Leave a commentHistory repeats itself, the same way I objected the compulsory military service last year, this year I boycott litigation before the military officers. Mr. officers… I say Mr. Officers and not Mr. judge, because the judge before anything has to …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech | Tagged Maikel Nabil | 2 CommentsFeras Baqna, Hussam Al-Drewesh and Khaled Al-Rashed started an online television series based in Saudi Arabia called “We are being cheated.” They posted several episodes on topics that are often not covered by mainstream Saudi television. The last episode was …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Education, Freedom of Speech, Media, Saudi Arabia, Society, Youth | Tagged Free Speech, Mal3ob3lena, Saudi Arabia | 2 CommentsGod as an old bearded men: For some devout Muslims, a film accused of blasphemy caused angry protests in Tunisia. The riots were directed against a television station that broadcast to the French-Iranian film “Persepolis.” ,and today they hit the …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Censorship, Comics, Creativity, Education, Entertainment, Film, Iran, Tunisia | Tagged Censorship, Tunisia | 3 CommentsIt is good news that over 1000 Palestinian political prisoners will be released in a prison swap deal. But there are still thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. This Saturday we will be discussing in our cultural group the new book …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Palestine | Tagged Palestine, Political Prisoners | Leave a commentDear friends, It is saddening that the individual spends his birthday inside prison. What’s worse is to feel that his homeland is without a future under a rule lacking vision, ethics and humanity. Greetings to all strugglers for freedom. Maikel …
Posted in Censorship, Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech | Tagged #noSCAF, Egypt, jan25, Maikel Nabil | 2 Comments