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  • #16
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    I wanted to point out the devastating effect bird flu has had on the Egyptian economy.

    "...subsequent losses and future losses have amounted to annual GDP growth by about 5.0 &#37; سنويا حيث ان الاستثمارات في الدواجن كانت تمثل 17% من نمو الناتج في عام 2006. 0% annually since investments in poultry accounted for 17% of the output growth in 2006.<o:p></o:p>

    وأكد &#187;السروجي&#171; ان الانعكاس السلبي &#187;للمرض&#171; علي البطالة يتمثل في ان هذه الصناعة فضلا عن أنها كثيفة العمالة فهي توفر فرص عمل منخفضة التكلفة حيث تصل تكلفة الفرصة الواحدة نحو 9 آلاف جنيه فقط وهي أقل التكاليف في كافة القطاعات وبالتالي فإن التداعيات السلبية للمرض تمثلت في توقف كثير من متاجر وانتاج الدواجن والعمالة التي تعتمد علي هذه الصناعة وهو ما يؤدي الي تزايد أزمة البطالة في البلاد.
    He &#187;Saddles&#171; that the negative reflection &#187;of the disease&#171; on unemployment is that the industry as well as labour-intensive job opportunities it provides low-cost, quoting the opportunity cost around one o'clock 9 thousand pounds only, which costs less in all sectors and thus the

    negative repercussions of the disease was Stopped in many shops and poultry production and employment, which depend on this industry
    which is leading to growing unemployment crisis in the country.<o:p></o:p> ..."


    Apparently the poultry industry accounts for 17% of the total economy. The losses to this industry have actually lowered the measure of all economic activity (GDP) in the country by 5%. This is a huge impact.

    Since the editors of 4 news outlets were arrested and convicted for negatively impacting the stock market, after publishing news of an illness that Mubarak had last year, we can see that the disincentive to publish information about the problematic bird flu problem in Egypt is large.






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    • #17
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      Non-acceptance of hearing civil and criminal complaint against the newspaper ?delegation?

      كتب شيماء القرنشاوي ٢٧/٥/٢٠٠٨
      Wrote Al Shaymaa 27/5/2008 <table style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; direction: ltr;" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="right" valign="top"><articlebody></articlebody>
      قضت محكمة جنح الوراق بعدم قبول الدعويين المدنية والجنائية المقامتين ضد أنور الهواري، رئيس تحرير الوفد السابق، وصحفيين بالجريدة، في المعارضة المقامة منهم ضد الحكم بحبس كل منهم غيابياً لمدة سنتين مع الشغل وتغريمهم ٢٠٠ جنيه،
      Warraq Court ruled not to accept the cases of civil and criminal against Anwar Al Hawwari, former chief editor of the delegation, told reporters gazette, in the opposition against the government built them to imprison each of them in absentia to two years in jail and fined 200 pounds;
      وإلزامهم بدفع تعويض مدني قدره ٢٠٠١ جنيه، في الدعوي التي أقامها ضدهم ١١ محامياً، واتهموهم فيها بإهانة القضاء عن طريق نشر أخبار كاذبة نالت من هيبته - حسبما ورد في الدعوي.
      And to require them to pay civil compensation capacity of 2001 pounds, in the lawsuit filed against 11 lawyers, and accused them of insulting the judiciary by publishing false news eroded the prestige - as stated in the lawsuit.
      صدر الحكم برئاسة المستشار هشام صادق وحضور محمد عبدالله، وكيل أول النيابة، وأمانة سر سعيد القاضي.
      Judgement headed by Hisham Mohammed Sadiq and the presence of Abdullah, first deputy prosecutor, Judge Said Al-Khuri.
      كان رئيس التحرير والصحفيان أمير سالم ومحمود غلاب، قد عارضوا في الحكم الصادر من المحكمة بهيئة مغايرة، وتداولت المحكمة الدعوي علي مدار ٥ جلسات، أثبت فيها المدعون تنازلهم عن الدعوي وتصالحهم مع الصحفيين الثلاثة، إلا أن المحكمة قضت بعدم قبول الدعويين المدنية والجنائية.
      The chief editor and journalists Amir Salem, Mahmud deep, had opposed the ruling of the court to a different court case and deliberated over 5 sessions, proved the plaintiffs waiver of the case and reconcile with the three journalists, but the court ruled not to accept the cases of civil and criminal.




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      • #18
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        <table class="contentpaneopen" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><tbody><tr><td class="contentheading" width="100%"> Note disapproval of the members of ?local West? majority leader because of the abuse to journalists </td><td class="buttonheading" align="right" width="100%"> </td><td class="buttonheading" align="right" width="100%"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table class="contentpaneopen" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> 30/05/2008 </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top">
        الأعضاء: عبدالأحد اتهم الصحفيين بالإساءة لمصر وقال للمحافظ ?أنا لا أخاف ولا أتراجع عن كلامي?
        Members: Abdcd journalists accused of harming Egypt, said the governor ?I am not afraid not back down from his talk?

        الغربية: محمد مبروك
        West: Mohamed Mabrouk
        أكد أعضاء في مجلس محلي الغربية إساءة د.
        The members of local councils in the West d abuse.
        عبدالأحد جمال الدين زعيم الأغلبية في مجلس الشعب إلي الصحافة المصرية وجموع الصحفيين علي اختلاف انتماءتهم، وتقدم عدد من أعضاء المجلس، أمس، بمذكرة استنكار نددوا فيها بالهجوم الحاد الذي شنه عبدالأحد علي الصحفيين، وهو ما نفاه عبدالاحد في اتصال تليفوني أجراه مع ?البديل? أمس الأول، واستنكر الأعضاء الذين حضروا جلسة المجلس المحلي التي شهدت الواقعة ما وصفوه بالتطاول علي الصحافة، وتأكيده أنها تسيء للدولة.
        Abdcd Gamaleldin majority leader in the People to praise the Egyptian press and journalists to differences in the affiliations, and a number of members of the Council yesterday, a memo denouncing the attack in which they slashed Abdcd sharp attack on journalists, which was denied Abdcd in a telephone conversation held with ?Alternative? yesterday I, denounced members who attended the meeting which saw the local council located what they branded manipulate the press, confirmed that it harms the state.
        وقال الأعضاء رمضان أبوحامد وعادل شاهين وشعبان زغلول في الخطاب الذي تقدموا به إلي نبيل منسي، رئيس المجلس، إن ما جاء علي لسان عبدالأحد في حضور اللواء عبدالحميد الششتاوي، محافظ الغربية، قد خالف الاعراف والتقاليد الحزبية والسياسية، وأكدوا أنه اتهم الصحافة بالإساءة إلي مصر وقيادتها السياسية.
        He said members of Ramadan, just Abouhamd Shahin, Shaaban Zaghloul in his tabled to Nabil Mansi, President of the Council, that what came to the San Abdcd in the presence of Major General Abdul Hamid Alchtaoi, governor of the West, had violated the customs and traditions of partisan and political, and stressed that he was accused of harming Egypt's press and its leadership Political Rights.
        وأشاروا إلي رفضه التراجع عن تصريحاته بعد محاولة المحافظ لفت نظره إلي الخطأ الذي وقع فيه، واستشهدوا برد عبدالأحد علي المحافظ ?انت دبلوماسي وأنا شعبي وسياسي ولا أخاف أحداً ولا أغير كلامي?.
        They pointed to his refusal to renege on his statements after the governor attempted to draw his attention to the error that occurred, citing cold Abdcd the governor ?You are diplomatic, political and popular I am not afraid one does not change myself?.
        وطالب الأعضاء بمناقشة الواقعة في جلسة علنية لعدم ورود تصريحات زعيم الأغلبية وعضو مجلس الشعب عن دائرة زفتي في جدول أعمال الجلسة <
        He called on members discussed in a public meeting of the non-receipt of the statements of majority leader and chairman of the People on the asphalt in the agenda of the meeting <



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        • #19
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          Sunday: Ibrahim Issa resume consideration of the decision remanded 6 months 6/7/2008 8:20:00 PM
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          القاهرة-محرر مصراوي- تنظر محكمة جنح مستأنف بولاق أبوالعلا صباح الاحد فى الاستئناف المقدم من نيابة أمن الدولة العليا ضد الحكم الصادر على إبراهيم عيسى رئيس تحرير صحيفة "الدستور"المستقلة بحبسه 6 أشهر مع الشغل وكفالة 200 جنيه لإيقاف التنفيذ لنشره أخبارا كاذبة عن صحة الرئيس حسنى مبارك.
          CAIRO - Editor Msrawi - consider Court resumed Sunday morning Boulaq Aboualala appeals from the Supreme State Security Prosecution against the judgement of Ali Ibrahim Issa, the editor of the "Constitution" Independent incarcerating him for 6 months in jail and 200 pounds to ensure suspended for publishing false news about the health of President Hosni Mubarak.
          وكانت نيابة أمن الدولة العليا قد أحالت إبراهيم عيسى للمحاكمة بعد أن نسبت إليه أنه نشر بصحيفة "الدستور" أيام 27 وحتى 30 أغسطس من العام الماضى بيانات وشائعات كاذبة عن صحة الرئيس حسنى مبارك على نحو ألحق الضرر بالمصلحة العامة للبلاد.
          The Supreme State Security Prosecution has referred the trial of Ibrahim Issa attributed to him after the publication of the newspaper that "the Constitution" and 27 days until Aug. 30 last year, data and false rumours about the health of President Hosni Mubarak about the right to damage the public interest of the country.
          وأكدت النيابة أن ما نشره إبراهيم عيسى أدى الى هرب استثمارت أجنبية من البورصة المصرية وانخفاض فى مؤشرها أدى إلى خسائر قدرها 350 مليون دولار على نحو أضر بالمصلحة الاقتصادية والسياسية للبلاد.
          The prosecutor confirmed that the bulletin Ibrahim Issa led to the escape of foreign investments from the Egyptian bourse and a decline in its index led to losses of $ 350 million dollars to the detriment of economic and political interest of the country.
          المصدر: وكالة انباء الشرق الاوسط
          Source: Middle East News Agency


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          • #20
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            Top State Information Office asked domestic websites recommended Yu article
            (Boxun - June 7, 2008 the first - to support the article author / journalist)
            At 16:30 on June 7 points, and Kaidi, and other major Tianya forum to inform the higher authorities to discuss Yu posts were deleted.

            Yu Sina blog recently published an article on the earthquake in Sichuan, who advised the dead child's parents not to Hanyuan, in order not to the Government Tianluan and those who seek justice for their child's parents are being exploited by anti-China forces. This article 1, the China Internet have been shake. Yu Sina blog was angry netizens shelling, in the face of overwhelming anger netizens shelling, Yu will oppose his message deleted from the netizens 100. (Boxun.com)

            China's Sichuan Province has started to recover after the earthquake many media and freedom of access to sites. In recent days to tighten the restrictions on the press reports, the site's message has been deleted, and strengthen the filtering of the Internet.

            State media propaganda department has issued instructions, and list the contents of the ban on reporting. Ban on these include: and shoddy construction of schools, the Government's rescue work is lagging behind, Beijing is aware that the earthquake would happen but did not issue a warning, and so on.

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            • #21
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              Source: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27414
              10 June 2008

              Disturbing new regulations prior to Olympic Games, increased control in Sichuan

              Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the introduction of new rules aimed at reinforcing controls over Chinese "fixers" working for foreign journalists and over all foreigners visiting China during the Olympic Games. The organisation also condemns an increase in police controls of foreign journalists trying to cover protests by parents whose children were killed when schools collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake.

              "Any hope of seeing China calmly open up ahead of the Olympic Games is gradually vanishing," Reporters Without Borders said. "The authorities have introduced regulations hostile to foreigners, who are suspected of wanted to disrupt the games, and are trying to impose greater controls on Chinese citizens working for foreign reporters. And, on the Propaganda Department?s initiative, the government is restricting the work of the Chinese and international press in Sichuan."

              "These measures, just two months ahead of the inauguration of the Beijing games, are bordering on paranoia and are a long way from the One World, One Dream slogan. We urge the International Olympic Committee to put pressure on the government to rescind some of these provisions and to ensure that the international press can work freely in Sichuan."

              Reporters Without Borders added: "So far, the IOC has not reacted to these archaic regulations, preferring to issue a memo in May reminding national Olympic committees that their athletes should under no circumstances demonstrate at Olympic sites."

              Control of Chinese fixers

              Chinese citizens working for foreign news media must now comply with new rules designed to get them to register with the authorities. Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the new rules, which were distributed by the CIECCO, a state entity that is supposed to help foreign companies, including news media, to find Chinese employees.

              The Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has been insisting since January 2007 that the foreign media recruit professionals chosen by official intermediaries as translators. The latest rules want all Chinese working for the foreign media to be registered and suggest that the authorities should "select and name appropriate candidates" for the foreign media.

              If foreign journalists want to propose their own candidates, they must provide an ID, a curriculum vitae, evidence of no criminal record and a medical certificate. And a contract must be signed between employer and employee.


              The Foreign Correspondents Club of China told Reporters Without Borders that "hiring and registering assistants through government service agencies potentially increases bureaucracy, expense and oversight by the authorities." The FCCC hopes the foreign media will eventually be able to hire Chinese as journalists, photographers or cameramen, but for the time being that is not allowed.

              Reporters Without Borders has also learned of a directive issued by the BOCOG media centre?s visa division telling journalists to submit precise information about coverage plans in China, including the places they want to visit and the people they want to interview, in order to obtain a J-2 visa, which is for media personnel who want to arrive before the 8 August start of the games. The BOCOG also requires a letter from an employer, which effectively eliminates freelancers.

              These new provisions come at a time when the issuing of multiple-entry visas is being restricted and obtaining tourist or business visas is taking much longer, even through Hong Kong. The government refuses to explain this tougher policy, which seems to be linked to fear of demonstrations during the games.

              Call to order for foreigners

              The BOCOG issued a set of guidelines for foreigners visiting the games on 2 June. In a question-and-answer format and so far only in Chinese, the guidelines tell foreigners they "must respect Chinese laws while in China and must not harm China?s national security or damage the social order."

              They say "terrorists," sex workers, drug traffickers, people suffering from AIDS or tuberculosis and "subversives" are banned from entering China. Some of the guidelines directly target those who would like to demonstrate during the games. "Public gatherings, marches and demonstrations cannot take place without prior permission from the police." They also restrict freedom of opinion, forbidding foreigners from bringing with them documents, disks or audio recordings critical of China.

              Media obstructed in Sichuan

              Because of the anger of the parents of children killed in schools in Sichuan, the authorities have tended to obstruct the work of the foreign media in the province. On 6 June, two Agence France-Presse journalists were prevented from entered Wufu, a city where demonstrations took place after a primary school collapsed.

              Foreign reporters were briefly detained and expelled on 5 June from Juyuan and Hanwang, two towns where schools collapsed. Photographers were removed from a demonstration by about 100 parents in Dujiangyan on 3 June, and a reporter and photographer from the Japanese news agency Kyodo were detained for several hours. According to the FCCC, two Dutch journalists were stopped by the police when they tried to go to Dujiangyan.

              The Chinese press has been forbidden to cover the collapsed schools story freely. Chinese journalists told the New York Times that the order came from Beijing. The website of the Hong Kong-based China Media Project (http://cmp.hku.hk/) reported that the Guangdong province Communist Party?s propaganda ordered the local media to pull their journalists out of Sichuan. The site also reported that Li Changchun, the Communist Party?s propaganda chief, went to Sichuan.

              The public security department has been told to put a stop to the "illegal gatherings" and to pressure the families of victims to stop talking to the foreign press. State media propaganda continues to praise the government?s efforts. State-owned CCTV?s website even went so far as to portray a demonstration in homage to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989 as a homage to the victims of the 12 May earthquake.

              Finally, BOCOG intransigence on security issues is giving rise to tension with international TV stations that acquired broadcasting rights. The Associated Press reported on 8 June that there were angry tensions at a meeting in Beijing at the end of May between the BOCOG, the IOC and international TV stations over China?s refusal to permit live coverage of events in certain places such as Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, and delays in granting permission for broadcast equipment.

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              • #22
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                Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rnational/home


                China casts wider net in crackdowns
                As Olympics near, security sweeps are targeting new classes of ordinary people, from DVD retailers to beggars

                GEOFFREY YORK

                From Thursday's Globe and Mail

                June 12, 2008 at 4:16 AM EDT

                BEIJING ? For years, the Zhou brothers sold their pirated DVDs openly from a back room in a state-owned department store. Like other merchants of counterfeit goods, they knew the authorities would turn a blind eye.

                But a few months ago, they made a huge mistake. On the television set in their shop, they began playing a U.S. documentary film about China's modern history, including several scenes of Chinese troops killing student protesters at Tiananmen Square in June, 1989.

                Within weeks, the police raided the store and hauled away the two brothers for interrogation for selling a "reactionary" film. This spring, one of the brothers was sentenced to a year in prison, even while most other illegal DVD merchants remained in business as usual.

                In this Olympic year in Beijing, human rights are taking a hammering. Security sweeps and police crackdowns are hitting a wide range of targets, not just dissidents but whole new classes of ordinary people, from street retailers to ethnic minorities, from beggars to patients-rights advocates.

                When they were lobbying for the right to hold the Olympics, Chinese leaders promised that human rights would improve if they were awarded the Games. Instead, they have rolled back the clock this year, limiting freedoms and tightening their repression of ordinary citizens across Beijing.

                Street vendors, mobile snack hawkers, beggars and homeless people are being pushed off the streets of Beijing in a massive "social cleansing" operation.
                On one Beijing street recently, a group of policemen used wire-cutters to remove and confiscate the parked bicycle-cart of a man who collected scrap metal for recycling. The vendors who give a sense of character and street life to Beijing's neighbourhoods are being swept away in the crackdown.

                Several English-language magazines have been banned from Beijing in recent weeks, even when their content is innocuous. The latest example is Time Out Beijing, a monthly entertainment guide, whose June issue has been banned by Chinese censors for unexplained reasons. The magazine had been distributed regularly in Beijing for more than three years, but it is one of several magazines banned from the city as the Olympics approach.

                The pre-Olympic crackdown has also hit China's independent citizens groups, including those supporting the estimated 100 million Chinese who have the hepatitis B virus. Last month, authorities shut down a popular website that provides help to people with hepatitis B, who often suffer discrimination and social stigma. In a separate incident in the same week, Chinese police arrested the director of a regional office of Yirenping, a support group for people with hepatitis B.

                "We can't help asking why the government does not allow the existence of such a website, which enables weak people to help each other, promotes social progress and benefits the country," said a statement by the Beijing Yirenping Centre.

                "We express our deep anger at the closing of this website. We hope the government can show some real care to these people, instead of merciless suppression."


                Ethnic minorities, especially Tibetans and Uyghurs, are among those suffering restrictions in China's security crackdown during the lead-up to the Olympics. The Uyghurs, a Muslim people from the Xinjiang region of western China, are increasingly seen as a security threat. Many hotels in Beijing are refusing to rent rooms to Uyghurs, while police are ordering some Muslim restaurants not to hire any Uyghurs, according to research by human-rights advocates.

                The researchers, led by well-known rights activist Wan Yanhai, conducted a survey of 20 hotels in Beijing last month and found that 60 per cent would not permit Xinjiang Uyghurs to check in, even when many rooms were available. Even at hotels that allowed Uyghurs to take rooms, the staff often warned them to be ready for police inspections.

                "This discrimination against Uyghurs is a violation of the guarantees of equal rights in China's constitution and law," Mr. Wan said. "In the Chinese big family, we should respect and protect the minorities among us. The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee should educate people ahead of the Olympics to respect minorities and create an atmosphere of unity and equality in society."

                Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities are escalating their pressure on dissidents, activists, lawyers and journalists. Many have been imprisoned, placed under house arrest or barred from working.

                After weeks of relative freedom for journalists covering the Sichuan earthquake, China has imposed new controls on foreign and domestic journalists in the earthquake zone.


                "Any hope of seeing China calmly open up ahead of the Olympic Games is gradually vanishing," said a report by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group defending press freedom.

                It noted that China has announced a new series of restrictions on foreigners visiting Beijing during the Olympics, along with new controls on Chinese citizens working for foreign reporters. "These measures, just two months ahead of the inauguration of the Beijing games, are bordering on paranoia and are a long way from the One World, One Dream slogan," the group said.

                The restrictions could become even more intensive on Aug. 8, when the Olympics begin. Beijing is mobilizing about 100,000 police officers and 600,000 volunteers to patrol hotels, streets and Olympic venues, more than one person for every foreign visitor expected to arrive in the city during the Olympics.

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                • #23
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                  Found this of interest....it will help folks in lands where internet censorship exists.
                  Source in French: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/a...51_651865.html

                  Some cracks in the Web Wall of China
                  LEMONDE.FR | 17.02.06 | 16h08 ? Modified 13.06.08 | 17h44
                  A technology developed jointly by several laboratories prestigious universities Canadian, American and British could get away with censorship digital raging in several countries in the world, including China. This system is being completed in Canada, and could quickly make a little 'e-freedom "to the approximately one hundred and ten million Chinese Internet users.
                  The emergence of the Internet in China was immediately accompanied by filtering techniques prohibiting Internet access to specific words and thus the whole World Wide Web. The hardening of the position of the Chinese authorities has accelerated recently, since Liu Jianchao, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chinese, justified the increased restrictions on Internet cafes from 1 March by this statement: "With the development of the Internet appeared content harmful and illegal. The Chinese government puts in place some measures to limit access to this immoral and harmful content, especially for young people. "

                  GOOGLE MADE IN CHINA

                  It is within this context that Google after Yahoo! Microsoft and a few months ago, launched last January 25 its engine in China "google.cn". But the giant research on the Internet could not do so under certain conditions imposed by the censors State (Le Monde, February 17, 2006). This filtering, made at least three levels (whole domain names and urls removed from the lists of results or keywords referring to pages that "politically correct" hosted in China) hidden anything that is not the Chinese government. To realize these differences, a page comparing the results of google.cn and google.com was developed by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), an entity born of a partnership between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University, Cambridge Security Programme at the University of Cambridge and the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.

                  The ONI, examining the complex relationships between states and networks, pointing the finger at the abuses and taken control of the Internet in some countries. The set up filters and monitoring systems are systematically analysed and proved to try to combat them. And the spearhead in the fight now has a name: Psiphon.

                  PSIPHON SQUATTE THE FINANCIAL FLOWS

                  But how does this system? The Chinese Internet user does not need to install anything. Simply this system circumvention online allows the user to query seamlessly and encrypted by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and port 443 (secure port for the transit of financial data) servers "friends" of a country censored. These servers friends analyze the request and return answers uncensored but always so encrypted and without trace on the computer. And as stated Professor Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab Toronto, the country which wishes to prohibit access to such information could do so only if it also happens in the flow of financial transactions.

                  The launch of Psiphon is imminent, and will benefit not only the Chinese Internet, but also to all those who face censorship on the Web such as the Internet to North Korea, Iran or Saudi Arabia. Detail amusing but revealing, if we interrogate tool for comparing the ONI on the word "psiphon" is, for once, the Chinese version of Google that returns the most responses?

                  Olivier Dumons
                  *****

                  Here's a link to psiphon:

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                  • #24
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                    Detentions Escalate at China Quake Site

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                    NEW YORK, TORONTO, STOCKHOLM, June 13 /CNW/ - PEN expressed alarm todayover the disappearance of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was last seenbeing forced into a car by three unidentified men in Chengdu on the evening ofJune 10. His detention comes amid an escalated effort by the Chinesegovernment to establish tighter controls over reporting fromearthquake-affected areas. Huang, director and co-founder of the Tianwang Human Rights Center inChengdu, had been imprisoned on subversion charges from 2003 to 2005 forsetting up a web site that investigated corruption, advocated democracy, andcalled for the release of those imprisoned in the wake of the Tiananmenprotests. PEN fears that Huang has been detained by plainclothes police andmay be held incommunicado in connection with his criticism of the government'shandling of the May 12th Sichuan earthquake. Two employees working for Tianwang, Internet writer Huang Xiaomin andwebmaster Zhang Qi, had been detained on May 16 after declaring theirintentions to join rescue activities in Sichuan. Huang Xiaomin was releasedafter 15 days and reports that he was extensively questioned by police abouthis relation to Huang Qi and their activities at Tianwang. Zhang Qi is stillbeing held incommunicado. It has also been reported that Zeng Hongling, a 53-year-old retiredworker from Mianyang, a city hard-hit by the earthquake, was detained whilestaying with relatives in Chengdu on June 9 on suspicion of "illegallyproviding information overseas" for articles published on an overseas Chineseweb site. The articles, part of a series entitled "The Accounts of My PersonalExperiences During the Earthquake," were published along with her ownphotographs under a pen name, Shanshan. Zeng was taken by five plainclothespolice officers from the Public Security Bureau (PSB) of Mianyang and is beingheld incommunicado at the Detention Center of the Mianyang PSB. PEN has also received confirmation that Chen Daojun, a freelance writerand journalist detained in Chengdu since May 9, has now been charged with"inciting splittism," not "inciting subversion of state power" as had beeninitially reported. The charge, most often used against Tibetans and Uighursin China, most likely stems from an article Chen published following theTibetan protests which declared respect to the Tibetan people, defended theirbasic rights and condemned the Chinese government's violent crackdown onprotesters. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../13/c4003.html PEN American Center, PEN Canada, and the Independent Chinese PEN Centerare among the 145 worldwide centers of International PEN, an organization thatworks to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writerseverywhere, to fight for freedom of expression, and represent the conscienceof world literature. On December 10, 2007, the centers launched We Are Readyfor Freedom of Expression, an Olympic countdown campaign to protest China'simprisonment of at least 42 writers and journalists and to seek an end tointernet censorship and other restrictions on the freedom to write in thatcountry. For more information, please visit www.pen.org/china2008,www.pencanada.ca, and www.chinesepen.org.</PRE>
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                      I can not say more because I am a lady.

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                        I think we are seeing way too many countries squash the news. this is not a direction I am happy with either.
                        Please do not ask me for medical advice, I am not a medical doctor.

                        Avatar is a painting by Alan Pollack, titled, "Plague". I'm sure it was an accident that the plague girl happened to look almost like my twin.
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                          Zeng Hongling arrested for publishing personal experiences of the earthquake disaster
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                          <script type="text/javascript"><!-- podPressShowHidePlayer('1', 'http://sohnews.com/podpress_trac/play/2310/0/brean4_output.mp3',300,30, 'false', 'http://sohnews.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress//images/vpreview_center.png'); --> </script>Retired Mianyang University staff member Zeng Hongling who personally experienced the Sichuan earthquake, published three articles online during her stay in Chengdu after the disaster, in relation to her personal experiences.
                          The news of Zeng?s arrest was exposed by her step father, Huang Shaofu, through ?4th of June Tianwang?, a website run by Chinese human rights advocates. As Huang did not wish for an interview, Tianwang volunteers transferred his message, that Zeng Hongling was taken from home on Monday night; police have refused to give any explanation for her arrest, and she has not been released.
                          Huang Shaofu is a veteran Kuomintang soldier, and Zeng is a daughter of his battle companion Yan Daiwu. According to Huang, Zeng?s home in Mianyang was damaged in the May 12th earthquake, thus she sought temporary refuge at his house in Chengdu. During this time, Zeng Hongling used his computer to complete a series of three articles, ?Why was there no forcast??, ?Personal experiences of the earthquake?, and ?The true face of the CCP government officials was entirely exposed through disaster relief ? personal experiences of the earthquake?. Thereafter, the article was submitted to Wu Yisan at ?New Millenium News Web? in Zeng?s pen name, and subsequently published on ?Observe China Information Centre?.
                          At 8pm Monday night, five plain clothed policemen arrived at Huang Shaofu?s residence, and requested to take Zeng Honglin to Tuqiao police station for temporary residence applications. Huang and Zeng were interrogated separately. Shortly after, police issued search warrants and searched Huang?s house. The computer, camera, books and other items which were used by Zeng were confiscated.
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                            Source: http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...inarumors.html

                            In China, rampant rumors fueled by media curbs
                            Conspiracy theories and hearsay can spread rapidly in the search for outside news

                            By Craig Simons
                            INTERNATIONAL STAFF
                            Sunday, June 15, 2008

                            BEIJING ? Hundreds of thousands of toads invaded a city. A 300-foot-wide pond drained into the earth. Chinese officials evacuated a school where their children were studying.

                            The evidence ? culled from China's rumor-filled Internet ? is damning: The Chinese government knew, or should have known, that the earthquake that killed at least 69,000 people would strike on May 12.

                            Except that the reports almost certainly are misinterpreted or false.

                            The rampant rumor mongering underscores how conspiracy theories and hearsay can spread rapidly in China as citizens search for news outside of its tightly controlled media.

                            Most scientists believe that earthquakes are not easily predicted, at least not down to the day in which one will hit.

                            After the earthquake, rumors spread by text messages and over the Internet, often posted anonymously to popular Web sites, caused panic in cities across China about more jolts to come.

                            Conspiracy theorists used the Internet to advance the idea that the communist government in Beijing was aware of warning signs ? one such example of evidence was the mass migration of toads ? that an earthquake would strike, but suppressed the information and pulled their children out of schools in the region ahead of the disaster.

                            A major movement of toads in a town near the earthquake's epicenter in China's southwestern Sichuan province was caused by an unusual breeding frenzy, a government scientist explained on a Chinese television program two days before the 7.9 magnitude quake struck.

                            "Rumors can spread very quickly (in China) because people think the government-controlled media is capable of hiding news," said Miao Di, a professor of media studies at Beijing's Communication University of China. "If the media were free, people would trust it and rumors wouldn't spread very far."

                            Beijing's handling of past crises also has bred distrust of officially sanctioned news.

                            During the outbreak of SARS ? severe acute respiratory syndrome ? in 2002-2003, Chinese officials suppressed news for months that hundreds of people had contracted the new and potentially lethal disease. Thousands of residents fled Beijing after rumors circulated that the government would seal the city to prevent the disease from spreading.

                            After a factory accident led to a 50-mile-long band of pollution in the Songhua River in 2005, officials in the downstream city of Harbin shut down the municipal water supply, which drew from the river, but initially told citizens the stoppage was for routine maintenance.

                            "There have been a lot of situations in the past where the official information, or lack thereof, proves to be unreliable and where rumors or information that came unofficially ended up seeming more credible, so there's a kind of long-term trust problem that the official media has," said Rebecca MacKinnon, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Hong Kong.

                            Beijing has tried to manage rumors by banning them.

                            Police in several Chinese provinces have detained citizens for "spreading rumors," a broadly defined crime that has been used in the past to arrest vocal dissidents. In Anhui province, authorities sentenced a woman to 10 days of police custody for "spreading a rumor online that a series of powerful earthquakes will jolt the province," the Xinhua News Agency reported.

                            Initially allowing greater press freedom after the earthquake, Beijing has since clamped down on reporting on the Internet by outlawing postings predicting other earthquakes or openly criticizing the government for collapsed schools or mishandled aid money, said Xiao Qiang, an expert on China's Internet controls at the University of California's Berkeley campus.

                            But by restricting the flow of information, Beijing risks upsetting citizens, he said.

                            "Some of the questions (being asked on the Internet) are legitimate and the more officials control them, the more people will distrust the government," he said.

                            Some Chinese commentators have called for Beijing to relax its grip on the media to stem the spread of rumors.

                            Chang Ping, a senior editor at Southern Metropolis Weekly, wrote in an online column last month that Chinese officials should allow greater press freedom so that citizens "can sort through the information to decide what is true."

                            "If the truth is disclosed in a timely manner," he wrote, "then the rumors will cease."

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                              Just to draw your attention to the fact that the French authorities look like they are repeating the same mistakes about dengue that they had committed with Chik in the Reunion Island (French Overseas Territory) - hiding info, massaging data, etc. Following the lack of action of the French authorities, Chik then spread to the whole of Asia.

                              Intuitively I'd say those dengue cases are really dengue and not AI, but we may need to keep an eye on this situation there from time to time. Another reason for remaining vigilant is that it seems that 2 dengue cases were imported from Thailand and Cambodia, two countries which have already been afflicted by BF.

                              See this article in French: http://www.clicanoo.com/index.php?pa...article=184403

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                                <table class="contentpaneopen" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><tbody><tr><td class="contentheading" width="100&#37;"> U.S. study: Egypt's first globally in the arrest of bloggers </td><td class="buttonheading" align="right" width="100%"> </td><td class="buttonheading" align="right" width="100%"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table class="contentpaneopen" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> 20/06/2008 </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top">
                                كتب: أحمد السمان
                                BOOKS: Ahmed Samman
                                أكدت دراسة أمريكية نشرت نتائجها صحيفة &#171;واشنطن بوست&#187; أمس، أن مصر أسوأ دول العالم انتهاكاً لحريات المدونين في التعبير علي شبكة الإنترنت، وأن أكثر من نصف عدد المعتقلين من المدونين في العالم موجودون في مصر وإيران والصين.
                                The study results published American newspaper &#171;Washington Post&#187; yesterday that Egypt's worst nations of the world in violation of the freedoms of expression bloggers on the Internet, and more than half the number of detainees from bloggers in the world are located in Egypt, Iran and China.
                                وبحسب دراسة أجرتها جامعة واشنطن تحت عنوان: &#171;اعتقال المدونين وحرية التعبير علي شبكة الإنترنت&#187; احتلت مصر المركز الأول بلا منافس عام 2007 حيث قامت باعتقال 14 مدونا تلتها الصين التي اعتقلت 12 مدونا، ثم إيران التي اعتقلت 8 مدونين، فيما تحملت 18 دولة علي مستوي العالم مسئولية اعتقال النصف الآخر.
                                According to a study by the University of Washington under the title: &#171;the arrest of bloggers and freedom of expression on the Internet&#187; Egypt occupied the first place without a competitor in 2007 with the arrest of 14 recorded, followed by China, which recorded 12 arrested, then detained by Iran 8 codes, while 18 incurred at the level of state World responsibility for the arrest of the other half.
                                وجاء في الدراسة أن الحكومة المصرية واجهت ازدياد شعبية المدونين بزيادة عدد المعتقلين منهم، وهو اتجاه شهد تزايداً في الفترة الأخيرة وأصبح أداة رئيسية للحكومة في التعامل مع الأزمات السياسية التي واجهتها مثل الإضرابات العمالية وغيرها.
                                According to a study that the Egyptian government faced growing popular bloggers to increase the number of detainees whom, a trend that has seen an increase in the last period and has become a major tool for the Government in dealing with political crises it has faced, such as strikes and other labor.
                                ورصدت الدراسة اعتقال 9 من هؤلاء المدونين علي خلفية الاستعداد لانتخابات مجلس الشوري التي أجريت في شهر يونيو الماضي، وامتدت الاعتقالات لفترة ستة أشهر سابقة علي هذه الانتخابات. كما أشارت إلي التخوف من اتجاه الحكومة المصرية إلي فرض مزيد من القيود القانونية علي استخدام شبكة الإنترنت، وتوقعت ازدياد عدد المعتقلين من المدونين في مصر عام 2008 مقارنة بالعام السابق، بالنظر إلي قيام السلطات باعتقال أربعة من المدونين في الشهور الماضية علي خلفية إضرابات واحتجاجات بسبب ارتفاع الأسعار
                                The study said the arrest of 9 of these bloggers against the backdrop of preparations for Shura Council elections held last June, and included arrests for a period of six months prior to these elections. It also pointed to fear from the direction of the Egyptian government to impose further legal restrictions on the use of the Internet, and expected Increasing the number of detainees from bloggers in Egypt in 2008 compared to the previous year, given by the authorities to arrest four of bloggers in the past months against the backdrop of strikes and protests because of high prices



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