الإعلام الالكتروني في العالم العربي...كرة ثلج نحو الديمقراطية
أعلنت الشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق الإنسان علي موقعها عن تقرير بعنوان شبكة اجتماعية واحدة...ذات رسالة متمردة، ليتناول موقف الحكومات العربية في 20 دولة من حرية استخدام الإنترنت، وليتناول أيضا أربعة من الأدوات (المدونات، الفيس بوك، تويتر، يوتيوب) التي أجاد مستخدمي الإنترنت الشباب في العالم العربي من توظيفها لممارسة حرية التعبير، وكشف انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان في الدول العربية وأيضا تسليط الضوء علي أشكال القمع في الدول العربية. ويشمل التقرير حالة التضييق الشديدة التي تفرضها أغلب الحكومات العربية على مستخدمي الإنترنت، والانتهاكات التي تمارسها ضدهم، مثل الاختطاف والتعذيب والاعتقال بموجب حالة الطوارئ كما في مصر أو سوريا، وصولا إلى الفتاوى الدينية بغلق بعض المواقع التي أفلتت من الحجب في المملكة العربية السعودية.
ولاحظت الشبكة العربية، أنه برغم بلوغ عدد مستخدمي الانترنت في العالم العربي إلي 58 مليون مستخدم، إلا أن مستخدمي الإنترنت في لبنان والجزائر والصومال فقط هم الذين يتمتعون بحريات نسبيةوفيما يتعلق بموقف الدول العربية، فإن دول مثل السعودية وتونس وسوريا يمارسوا الحجب لمواقع الإنترنت، وبالرغم أن مصر توقفت عن سياسة حجب المواقع منذ خمس سنوات، فلقد أصبحت مصر من أشد الدول قمعا لنشطاء الإنترنت والمدونين
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Social Media in Arab World, Snowball heading to Democracy
On its website, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Arabic network that promotes freedom of speech, announced
“The internet has a snowball effect on the process of democracy in the Arab world. This new force cannot be stopped by government’s actions of censorship, blocking the internet and arresting and even torturing internet users.”
The announcement came two days before releasing a new report by ANHRI entitled One social Network, with a Rebellious Message, the reports is addressing the freedom of internet usage in 20 Arab countries, as well as examining four tools (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) that are utilized by Arab youth, to practice their right of free expression, exposing human rights violations, highlighting corruptions and acts of repression in the Arab world.
The report also covers the violations committed against internet users; such as kidnapping, arresting, torturing internet users using the Emergency Law like in Egypt and Syria. In some countries, like Saudi Arabia, religious authorities have issued statements banning some websites that the governments were not able to block.
ANHRI noted that among the internet users, that reached 58 million in the Arab world, only internet users in Lebanon, Algeria and Somalia have relative freedom in using the internet. Also, the level of repression and harassment against internet users has increased with the increase in the number of users.
Countries, like Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Syria, continue to block websites. In Egypt, although, the act of blocking website stopped five years ago, but the regime in Egypt is now directing its repression against bloggers and internet users. ANHRI marks that Egypt has become the most repressive country to internet users in the Arab world.
To read the report click here.
* By EBfHR Editor, Published on Global Voices Online
“The internet has a snowball effect on the process of democracy in the Arab world. This new force cannot be stopped by government’s actions of censorship, blocking the internet and arresting and even torturing internet users.”
The announcement came two days before releasing a new report by ANHRI entitled One social Network, with a Rebellious Message, the reports is addressing the freedom of internet usage in 20 Arab countries, as well as examining four tools (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) that are utilized by Arab youth, to practice their right of free expression, exposing human rights violations, highlighting corruptions and acts of repression in the Arab world.
The report also covers the violations committed against internet users; such as kidnapping, arresting, torturing internet users using the Emergency Law like in Egypt and Syria. In some countries, like Saudi Arabia, religious authorities have issued statements banning some websites that the governments were not able to block.
ANHRI noted that among the internet users, that reached 58 million in the Arab world, only internet users in Lebanon, Algeria and Somalia have relative freedom in using the internet. Also, the level of repression and harassment against internet users has increased with the increase in the number of users.
Countries, like Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Syria, continue to block websites. In Egypt, although, the act of blocking website stopped five years ago, but the regime in Egypt is now directing its repression against bloggers and internet users. ANHRI marks that Egypt has become the most repressive country to internet users in the Arab world.
To read the report click here.
* By EBfHR Editor, Published on Global Voices Online