{"id":2046,"date":"2007-03-14T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T10:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2007-03-14T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T10:26:21","slug":"2007-3-14-online-censorship-suit-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Online Censorship Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hossam has linked to Judge Abd al-Fattah’s lawsuit here<\/a>. It’s riddled with factual errors. More on that later. It’s still not clear if this is going anywhere, but as commenters on Issandr’s original post<\/a> on the topic noted, we have early warning in this case, and we should take advantage of it. A list of the URLs the judge is asking the government to censor follows. Since a court has yet to rule on whether these are libelous, archiving them in Egypt may be risky. So people outside of Egypt who might be interested in hosting mirrors, here are the urls. They include the sites of some of the most prominent human rights organizations in Egypt:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/<\/a>
The Web site of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (hrinfo)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/hmcl<\/a>
The page of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Legal Aid, hosted on hrinfo’s site<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.afteegypt.org<\/a>
Web site of the Nur Center<\/p>\n

http:\/\/wwwshamsannews.net\/newsdetails.asp?id=402http:\/\/www.eipr.org<\/a>
The Web site of the Egyptian Inititative for Personal Rights<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/hmlc<\/a>
A typo leads to a 404 page, but it’s named in the suit. The correct URL for the Hisham Mubarak Center is named above.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/elmarsd\/<\/a>
The Urban Center [lit. “Observatory”] for Human Rights<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/eojl\/<\/a>
The Egyptian Center for Justice and Law<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/nadeem\/<\/a>
The page for the Nadim Center for Victims of Violence, hosted on hrinfo<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/eaat<\/a>
The Egyptian Association Against Torture<\/p>\n

http:\/\/elsaeedi.katib.org\/node\/48#comment<\/a>
A page from a blog concerned with human rights issues<\/p>\n

http:\/\/harakamasria.org\/node\/9062#comment-7416<\/a>
From Kifaya’s Web site<\/p>\n

http:\/\/gharbeia.net\/ar\/judgebookreview<\/a>
Blog that has campaigned for democracy, human rights, and respect for the environment<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.alghad.org.eg<\/a>
Purportedly the Web site of the Ghad Party’s newspaper. Incidentally, this URL was inaccessible from Egypt March 14 using the ISP LINKdotNET.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gn4me.com\/nahda<\/a>
The Egyptian Renaissance<\/em> site<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gn4me.com<\/a>
The Good News company’s site, named as the owner of The Egyptian Renaissance<\/em>, above.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.alnoor.se\/othernews.asp?year=200<\/a>
Web site of the Nur Center<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.shamsannews.net\/newsdetails.asp?id=402<\/a>
Shmasan News<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wna-news.com\/inanews\/news.php?item3699.6<\/a>
Web site of the Iraqi News Agency<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mohamed.katib.org\/node\/34<\/a>
Blog post<\/p>\n

http:\/\/taranim.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/22\/kareemyagod\/#comments<\/a>
Blog post<\/p>\n

http:\/\/bentmasreya.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/blog-post_14.html<\/a>
Blog post<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/net2004\/egypt.shtml<\/a>
The Egypt chapter of HRinfo’s 2004 report on Internet censorship in the Middle East<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/re2006\/re06-2.shtml<\/a>
HRinfo report on April-May 2006 crackdown<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/re2006\/#egypt<\/a>
HRinfo report on Bahrain, Tunisia, and Egypt<\/p>\n

http:\/\/elsaeedi.katib.org\/node\/<\/a>
Blog<\/p>\n

http:\/\/gharbeia.net\/ar\/judgeBOOKReview#comment<\/a>
Blog post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hossam has linked to Judge Abd al-Fattah’s lawsuit here<\/a>. It’s riddled with factual errors. More on that later. It’s still not clear if this is going anywhere, but as commenters on Issandr’s original post<\/a> on the topic noted, we have early warning in this case, and we should take advantage of it. A list of the URLs the judge is asking the government to censor follows. Since a court has yet to rule on whether these are libelous, archiving them in Egypt may be risky. So people outside of Egypt who might be interested in hosting mirrors, here are the urls. They include the sites of some of the most prominent human rights organizations in Egypt:
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/<\/a>
\nThe Web site of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (hrinfo)
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/hmcl<\/a>
\nThe page of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Legal Aid, hosted on hrinfo’s site
\nhttp:\/\/www.afteegypt.org<\/a>
\nWeb site of the Nur Center
\nhttp:\/\/wwwshamsannews.net\/newsdetails.asp?id=402http:\/\/www.eipr.org<\/a>
\nThe Web site of the Egyptian Inititative for Personal Rights
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/hmlc<\/a>
\nA typo leads to a 404 page, but it’s named in the suit. The correct URL for the Hisham Mubarak Center is named above.
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/elmarsd\/<\/a>
\nThe Urban Center [lit. “Observatory”] for Human Rights
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/eojl\/<\/a>
\nThe Egyptian Center for Justice and Law
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/nadeem\/<\/a>
\nThe page for the Nadim Center for Victims of Violence, hosted on hrinfo
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/egypt\/eaat<\/a>
\nThe Egyptian Association Against Torture
\nhttp:\/\/elsaeedi.katib.org\/node\/48#comment<\/a>
\nA page from a blog concerned with human rights issues
\nhttp:\/\/harakamasria.org\/node\/9062#comment-7416<\/a>
\nFrom Kifaya’s Web site
\nhttp:\/\/gharbeia.net\/ar\/judgebookreview<\/a>
\nBlog that has campaigned for democracy, human rights, and respect for the environment
\nhttp:\/\/www.alghad.org.eg<\/a>
\nPurportedly the Web site of the Ghad Party’s newspaper. Incidentally, this URL was inaccessible from Egypt March 14 using the ISP LINKdotNET.
\nhttp:\/\/www.gn4me.com\/nahda<\/a>
\nThe Egyptian Renaissance<\/em> site
\nhttp:\/\/www.gn4me.com<\/a>
\nThe Good News company’s site, named as the owner of The Egyptian Renaissance<\/em>, above.
\nhttp:\/\/www.alnoor.se\/othernews.asp?year=200<\/a>
\nWeb site of the Nur Center
\nhttp:\/\/www.shamsannews.net\/newsdetails.asp?id=402<\/a>
\nShmasan News
\nhttp:\/\/www.wna-news.com\/inanews\/news.php?item3699.6<\/a>
\nWeb site of the Iraqi News Agency
\nhttp:\/\/mohamed.katib.org\/node\/34<\/a>
\nBlog post
\nhttp:\/\/taranim.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/22\/kareemyagod\/#comments<\/a>
\nBlog post
\nhttp:\/\/bentmasreya.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/blog-post_14.html<\/a>
\nBlog post
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/net2004\/egypt.shtml<\/a>
\nThe Egypt chapter of HRinfo’s 2004 report on Internet censorship in the Middle East
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/re2006\/re06-2.shtml<\/a>
\nHRinfo report on April-May 2006 crackdown
\nhttp:\/\/www.hrinfo.net\/reports\/re2006\/#egypt<\/a>
\nHRinfo report on Bahrain, Tunisia, and Egypt
\nhttp:\/\/elsaeedi.katib.org\/node\/<\/a>
\nBlog
\nhttp:\/\/gharbeia.net\/ar\/judgeBOOKReview#comment<\/a>
\nBlog post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[227,6,228,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}