Last year, Nokia provided the state-owned Irantelecom with a "monitoring center," which enables the regime to tap phones, read e-mails, and watch over all kinds of electronic data transmission. Designed to help stop crime and terror, the new surveillance system appears to have enhanced the regime's ability to crack down on dissent. Last month, twelve women's rights activists were arrested at a private meeting that security forces likely learned about through intercepts. Another arrested dissident was recently confronted by interrogators with transcripts of his text messaging.

المتهمين حضروا فى سيارة ترحيلات بعد منتصف الليل، وأدخلهم الحرس على دفعات إلى مبنى مصلحة الطب الشرعى، الذى شهد حراسة أمنية مشددة حتى انتهت إجراءات الكشف الطبى عليهم، والتى استمرت لمدة ٣ ساعات تقريباً، وقال شهود عيان إن ٨ سيارات أمن مركزى وشرطة كانت تحاصر المبنى وغادرت بعد انتهاء الكشف.

They say the ANC wants to change the constitution to make it harder to prosecute politicians for corruption.

lego torture

Lego recreation of US torture in Abu Gharib.

"They are held here indefinitely, not because they need treatment for a mental illness, but because they are simply too dangerous for release into the community." Wait a minute, they are kept under the mental health act under a diagnoses that a "government consultation paper" defined not psychiatrists.

Sinai blogger remains in detention despite eighth release order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson

1 April 2009

Don't rely on the police, If you suspect it report it to ... Youtube!

Here you will find a copy of the Cairo 1949 White Pages.

Opengazer is an open source application that uses an ordinary webcam to estimate the direction of your gaze. This information can then be passed to other applications. For example, used in conjunction with Dasher, opengazer allows you to write with your eyes. Opengazer aims to be a low-cost software alternative to commercial hardware-based eye trackers.

تبين أن «الفلاشة» والأقراص المدمجة التى ذكرت تحريات المباحث أنها تحتوى على مسح وخرائط للقرى الحدودية بين مصر وإسرائيل، وشفرات للتواصل مع قيادات حزب الله، فارغة ولا تحتوى على أى شىء، خلافا لما أقر به المتهم نمر فهمى سليمان من قبل، حيث ذكر فى تحقيقات سابقة أن الأحراز التى ضمت «فلاشة وسيديهات» احتوت على خرائط ومسوح تفصيلية لأماكن وقرى سياحية بسيناء ،كما أنها تحوى شفرة التخاطب مع مسئولى الحزب بلبنان. وقال نمر فى التحقيقات التى استكملت مساء أمس الأول إنه «اضطر للأدلاء بتلك الاعترافات تحت وطأة الظروف التى تعرض لها أثناء احتجازه».

Send a fax for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada

أرثر البريطانى العادى للغايه الذى يصحو من النوم ليجد أن بيته و كوكب الارض كاملا سيتم تدميرهم عن طريق كائنات فضائيه متقدمه للغايه لعمل طريق سريع بين المجرات و انه سيموت و لكن صديقه فورد بيرفيكت (و هو الذى انقذة ارثر فى الماضى من الموت) ينقذه من الموت و يأخذه لسفينه فضاء – نسيت أن أقول أن فورد كائن فضائى هو الأخر- و فى الرحله يكتشف اشياء عديده من سمكه بابل التى تترجم أى لغه للغتك الاصليه الى إجابه السؤال العظيم عن كل شئ بخصوص الحياه و الكون و كل شئ

Most of the Egyptian newspapers combined on a single webpage. Includes: Youm7, Shourok, Ahram, Wafd, Dostor, el-Masry, DNE and el-Weekly. It is still a work in progress.

تلقيمة مجمعه لكل أبواب جريدة الوفد

Ahram newspaper custom made front page RSS feed

Schizophrenia sufferers aren't fooled by an optical illusion known as the “hollow mask” that the rest of us fall for because connections between the sensory and conceptual areas of their brains might be on the fritz. (Watch the video)

Gazamom's account

The detainee, Adel Ghareez, had been left paralyzed as a result and was moved to hospital after his condition had deteriorated. His brother remains in custody.

Joi Ito's response.

Did you ever sit at the airport or at a cafe and there was a unencrypted wireless access point nearby, but whenever you wanted to visit a site their website would pop up asking for a fee to use the internet through their AccessPoint (aka. Captive Portal)?

The possible reinstatement of two policemen found guilty of torture would be an implicit encouragement from the Egyptian authorities for all police officers to use torture, Amnesty International said today as it urged Egypt’s Interior Minister not to allow this.

هبل النقابة

you can outsource your labor, but you can’t outsource your moral responsibility.

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