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.  ...

On February 22, Gen. Ismail Etman, head of the Morale Affairs Directorate of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, sent a letter to editors of Egyptian newspapers telling them "not to publish any articles/news/press releases/complaints/advertising/pictures concerning the armed forces or the leadership of the armed forces, except after consulting the Morale Affairs directorate and the Military Intelligence since these are the competent parties to examine such issues to protect the safety of the nation." Human Rights Watch has seen a photocopy of this letter and confirmed its authenticity. خطاب من الجيش إلي الصحف المصرية بعدم نشر اي محتوى يخص القوات المسلحة إلا بعد الحصول على إذن.

Along the many years where the former president Hosni Mubarak ruled the country we didn’t witness large scale of cases where a blogger gets jailed for a blog-post. The first case in Egypt was in 2007 when Kareem Amer was sentenced for 4 years in jail based on blog-posts, he was charged for insulting Islam and Mubarak. On 6 April 2011, a military tribunal took place against Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil, 26 years-old, on charges of “insulting the military” and yesterday 10 April the court sentenced Nabil for 3 years in prison. Maikel Nabil is sent to prison over blog-post he wrote about violations committed by the military offices against civilians since the revolution and criticizing the army in Egypt. During the past few years, Egyptian activists and journalists have broke many taboos through media platforms. The army and military forces was one of the main taboos during Mubarak’s time and is still a “red-line” in the offline media, and now the Supreme Council of the Armed Forc...

قررت عدد من مؤسسات الدولة في مصر التواصل مع قطاع مختلف من الشعب وذلك من خلال الشبكة الدولية للمعلومات. وسائل الاعلام الالكتروني مساحة مهمة لتداول المعلومات وتمريرها بين جمهور عريض ولكن الأهم من تداول المعلومات على الانترنت هو كيفية اتاحة المعلومات على الانترنت، والحفاظ على وجودها، وسهولة الوصول اليها. في وجهة نظري أن المواقع الاجتماعية هي وسائل مكملة لنشر المحتوى المتاح على موقع اي مؤسسة، ايا أن المواقع هي المنصة الرئيسية لنشر المعلومة والمواقع الاجتماعية للمؤسسة يتم من خلالها إعادة نشر المعلومة بأشكال مختلفة طبقا لطبيعة كل موقع اجتماعي. في 17 فبراير 2011، أنشا المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة صفحة على موقع الفيسبوك لنشر البيانات في حين أن المجلس الأعلى لا يملك موقع خاص به. وفي  27 فبراير أنشا مجلس الوزراء المصري صفحة على موقع الفيسبوك وحساب على موقع التويتر في 2 مارس ولم يقم مجلس الوزراء (حتى اليوم 14 مارس) بالإشارة لتلك الصفحات على الموقع الخاص به. كما لم يتم إصدار اي خبر رسمي من المجلس الأعلى أو مجلس الوزراء بإنشاء تلك الصفحات، في حين قامت وزارة الداخلية بنشر خبر رسمي في 26 ف...

Do you believe in Freedom of Speech? Do you think it's normal to be profiled or tracked while being online?! Do you think it’s your right to enjoy uncensored Internet search & blogging? Do you believe in Freedom of Information? Right to Access Information? Do you want to defend an Internet without restrictions and accessible to everyone at anytime and anywhere? Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship, 12 March...Spread the Word! تدوينه ضد الرقابة الإلكترونية هل تؤمن بحرية التعبير؟ هل تعتقد أن رصد وتعقب نشاطك الإلكتروني ممارسة طبيعية؟! هل تؤمن بحقك في حرية تصفح الانترنت والبحث والتدوين؟ هل تؤمن بحرية الوصول للمعلومة؟ هل تريد الدفاع من أجل انترنت بدون قيود ومتاح للجميع في أي وقت وأي مكان؟ دَعْم اليوم العالمي لمكافحة الرقابة الإلكترونية، 12 مارس. أنشر الكلمة! *The logo is designed by Reporters Without Borders, can be downloaded free of charge and is available in various colors .

25 January 2011 was the day when people of Egypt went to the streets in several cities to demonstrate against President Mubarak and the current regime. Online platforms and social websites were highly utilized by activists to mobilize youth and spread the word before January 25. On the first of day of demonstrations, the government started to crackdown on communication and online platforms to limit the flow of information on what is happening and despite that crackdown, people of Egypt were still able to deliver videos, pictures and thoughts from the demonstrations all over Egypt and it didn’t affect mobilizing people to join peaceful assemblies. Among many different tactics activists used to spread the multimedia is building tents in Tahrir Square (Downtown, Cairo) and hanging a sign “Gathering Picture and Videos” to compile footage and pictures from demonstrators and uploading them online. Here is the sequence of communication shutdown by the government starting 25 January (app...

Pictures From the Demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt since January 25 Here   Videos Here and Here