A highly informative article about the case from A-Z.

In accurate but it's on state media now.

A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.

The bastards want to enslave African migrants in concentration camps because they are too cheap to pay them minimum wage and can boldly claim that they "will spread diseases".

CAIRO: An NGO has drawn attention to the experiences of Sudanese nationals held in Egypt’s El-Qanater Prison after a group of Sudanese detainees allegedly organized a protest in the prison last month.El-Qanater, approximately an hour from central Cairo, holds non-Egyptian detainees and prisoners.

There are thought to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans worldwide,[1] and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.[3] Most Iraqi Mandaeans have since fled the country under the threat of violence by other Iraqis and the turmoil of the war.[4] By 2007, the population of Iraqi Mandaeans had fallen to approximately 5,000.[3] Most Iraqi Mandaeans now live in Syria and Jordan, with smaller populations in Sweden, Australia, the United States, and other Western countries.

I propose that the point of this isn't to replicate "open source" as we know it in software. The point is to create the essential foundations for distributed science so that it can emerge in a form that is locally relevant and globally impactful. We can do this. But we have to be relentless in questioning our assumptions and in discovering the interventions necessary to make this happen. We don't want to wake up in ten years and realize we missed an opportunity by focusing on the software model instead of designing an open system out of which open science might emerge on its own.

Hawas: If you don't restore your history, you have no future.

Buses sometimes disturb you because some of the drivers are killers.

Hey Jude flowcharted.

Lack of adequate monitoring of places of detention has resulted in terrorist suspects being held incommunicado in “underground SSI cells,” putting them beyond the protection of the law, the SR says.

“I was treated like sh**,” Azab told Daily News Egypt. “There was everything, verbal humiliation, beating and no food to eat. You had to pay to eat,” he said.

Ha!

Bogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. EFF's Hall Of Shame collects the worst of the worst.

We, Bates Unites in Oslo has made the Berlitz film "German Coastguard" and we have not given anyone the right to "rip-off" this film.

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: An Arabic translator censors out news before detainees are given the paper in the US military prison

"Those who feel complicit with the torture have a need to justify the torture, and so link the victim's pain to blame," says Gray. "On the other hand, those distant from torture have no need to justify it and so can sympathize with the suffering of the victim, linking pain to innocence."

Arafat is a ‘terrorist in a diplomat’s suit, while Hamas can be hit unmercifully… there won’t be any international protests’.

"I'll never set foot in Egypt again. Their approach is ridiculously over the top and it has tainted my opinion of the country forever."

"The myth of Swedish suicide" has its roots in the late 1950s and a speech given by the then US President Dwight D. Eisenhower which had been based on an inaccurate briefing.

Gamal Muabrak's second show in a series of online 'dialogues' with the shabab. Horrible.

Naqib centre for ma3rafsh eh is funded by freedom house.

In addition to demanding that health insurance beneficiaries pay for their treatment via a fixed subscription payment rather than open-ended contributions to individual services, the Committee is calling for state healthcare spending to be increased to 15 percent in line with United Nations Millennium Development goals.

ربما لا توجد فئة في مصر اكثر اجراما من فئة البدو والاعراب الذين يسكنون الصحراء المترامية الاطراف ولا تخلو محافظة في مصر من ظهير صحراوي تسكنه مجموعات من البدو في مجتمعات مهمشة تحولت مع الوقت الي صداع في رأس الحكومة خاصة الاجهزة الامنية التي تعتبر هؤلاء البدو مجموعات من الخارجين علي القانون ومطاريد في الجبال يشكلون تهديدا للامن الداخلي بما يرتكبونه من جرائم سواء تهريب المخدرات او الاتجار في السلاح او فرض السيطرة والاتاوات والاستيلاء علي املاك الدولة كما يشكلون ايضا تهديدا للامن القومي الخارجي بعدما فتح بعضهم احضانه لاستقطاب الارهاب الاسود خاصة في اعقاب تفجيرات سيناء فضلا عما يرتكبونه من جرائم تهريب وهجرة غير شرعية لاسرائيل."

A long term photo story about the state of mental health for children in Gaza after the recent war on the strip last Dec.2008\Jan.2009