مدونة رامي رؤوف حليم

1. الإفراج الفوري عن جميع المحتجزين الذين ما زالوا رهن الاحتجاز وبدون توجيه اتهامات، والإعلان عن أعداد وأسماء المقبوض عليهم (بما في ذلك من خضعوا لمحاكمات عسكرية) والاتهامات المنسوبة إليهم والأحكام الصادرة ضدهم. 2. إجراء تحقيق مستقل وشفاف في جميع مزاعم التعذيب على يد الشرطة العسكرية على مدار الأسابيع الماضية. 3. التوقف فورا عن استخدام حالة الطوارئ لاصدار مراسيم بقوانين أو اتخاذ إجراءات استثنائية ضد مدنيين. والنظر في أهمية إلغاء حالة الطوارئ الذي يمنح الحاكم العسكري سلطات موسعة في القبض على الأفراد واعتقالهم تعسفاً. 4. إلغاء مرسوم بقانون رقم 34 لسنة 2011 الخاص بحظر الإضرابات والمظاهرات، وضمان الحق في حرية التجمع ووقف انتهاك حقوق المتظاهرين. 5. الإعلان عن عدم التسامح مع أعمال التعذيب من قبل ضباط وزارة الداخلية أو ضباط عسكريين. والتأكيد على الملاحقة القضائية للمجرمين أمام قاضيهم الطبيعي. 6. يجب وضع حد لعمليات الاحتجاز السري. 7. يجب وقف محاكمة المدنيين أمام محاكم استثنائية (محاكم عسكرية ومحاكم أمن الدولة) وإعادة النظر في تلك القضايا أمام القضاء الطبيعي. 8. العمل على ضمان حرية ا...

If you are participating in a peaceful assembly as a journalists, rights defender, or activists, your mobile phone is an invaluable asset. It allows you to communicate with allies, to document the event, and bear witness to what is happening around you. At the same time, you should take certain precautions in your mobile use and communications.  The Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies guide published via Mobile Active can help you to utilize your mobile phone during peaceful assemblies effectively and, at the same time, better protect yourself. The guide will help you to understand the value of information on your mobile phone, assess mobile risks, know what to do before joining a peaceful assembly and during it, and to be more familiar with your mobile phone as well as 10 useful tips. You can read the guide online on Mobile Active here and download it here .

Documents from State Security in Egypt related to series of meetings between officials of the Interior Ministry and the representatives of multinational telecommunications and internet companies operating in Egypt. The documents are minutes of meetings and include discussions on how to cut off internet access in a single city and in several cities, blocking particular websites, obtaining personal information, planting spy files and other surveillance and communication-control actions. The documents also include a review for survalliance technology and its commercial offer. - State Security Internal Communications About Digital Spyware - Link [Arabic]. - Commercial Offer from Gamma International to State Security - Link [English]   - State Security Internal Communications on Monitoring SMS - Link [Arabic] * A group of citizens managed to force their way into buildings of the Ministry of Interior – a branch of the government notorious for brutal tactics employed to preserve t...

One of the first tents set late January in Tahrir Square was by group of friends (including bloggers, human rights defenders, political activists...etc) and most of us were there with our personal laptops, cameras, memory-readers, hard-disks, cables and devices that we might need.  The Media Tent in Tahrir Square With a sign on the tent that says "point to gather pictures and videos", the main thing we did was gathering all kind of multimedia from demonstrators in Tahrir Square then making the content available online once its possible. For me, gathering content from people and making it available online via different means was very important because i believed that making those pictures and videos public will help everyone to really understand whats happening on the ground, follow-up the situation and be able to judge, as well as have an overview of what happened in different cities in Egypt as those people who had pictures or videos were not only from Cairo.  ...