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Shiloh · Jun 10, 2008

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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.

Shiloh · Jun 12, 2008

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Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080612.wchina12/BNStory/International/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.

Shiloh · Jun 13, 2008

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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/...s-la-web-muraille-de-chine_742651_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
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Here's a link to psiphon:
http://psiphon.civisec.org/

Treyfish · Jun 13, 2008

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Detentions Escalate at China Quake Site


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.:tiphat: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2008/13/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>

sharon sanders · Jun 13, 2008

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:surrender:

:nuke: :taz: :banghead:

:tank:

I can not say more because I am a lady.

Shannon Bennett · Jun 13, 2008

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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.

Sally Furniss · Jun 13, 2008

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Zeng Hongling arrested for publishing personal experiences of the earthquake disaster [2:06m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download

<script type="text/javascript"> </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.
The above was brought to you by Li Lin for Breaking News on SOH Radio Network.
http://sohnews.com/2008/06/11/break...sonal-experiences-of-the-earthquake-disaster/

Shiloh · Jun 15, 2008

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Source: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/06/15/0615chinarumors.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."

FrenchieGirl · Jun 17, 2008

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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?page=article&id_article=184403

sharon sanders · Jun 20, 2008

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كتب: أحمد السمان

BOOKS: Ahmed Samman

أكدت دراسة أمريكية نشرت نتائجها صحيفة «واشنطن بوست» 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 «Washington Post» 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: «اعتقال المدونين وحرية التعبير علي شبكة الإنترنت» 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: «the arrest of bloggers and freedom of expression on the Internet» 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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Shiloh · Jun 25, 2008

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Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13908_3-9976896-59.html

After a Chinese website shut-down, hep B advocate warns of unrest
June 25, 2008 12:50 AM PDT

Four-hundred-thousand members of a Hepatitis B support group in China lost their online forum in a Chinese crackdown on civil society. Now some say they may be forced to drastic measures, even during the Olympics.

In an unusually prominent threat of collective action in China, Lu Jun, who ran a recently blocked site for carriers of hepatitis B, said some disgruntled members may be planning protests during the Olympics, reports the Financial Times.

Mr Lu, who heads a rights group that has helped carriers sue companies such as IBM and Foxconn for discrimination, said the website was a gathering place for sufferers who had little other opportunity to vent their frustrations or find support from doctors and fellow patients. By shutting it down, the Chinese government risked pushing patients to take drastic actions, Mr Lu said.

"A common refrain in the messages we have received from members since the website was shut down is: 'I love my country but my country doesn't love me'," Mr Lu said.

"In the Hepatitis B Camp" was first shut down by the government last November. On Tuesday Mr Lu said an official had told him at the time that the closure was due to the upcoming Olympic Games. Mr Lu managed to reopen the website by moving it to an overseas server, but Beijing last month began blocking access to the website within China, just 10 days after government officials participated in an event for World Hepatitis Day at the Great Wall.

sharon sanders · Jul 10, 2008

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The protest stopped in front of Press Syndicate in solidarity with the journalist ?Dawn? and ?Reporters Without Borders? demands to drop the charges against him

كتب نفيسة الصباغ وسماح عبدالعاطي ١٠/٧/٢٠٠٨

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نظمت لجنة الحريات بنقابة الصحفيين مساء أمس الأول وقفة احتجاجية تضامناً مع الزميل، كمال مراد، المحرر بجريدة ?الفجر?، بسبب الاعتداء الذي قال كمال إنه وقع عليه من قبل بعض رجال الشرطة أثناء تغطيته الأحداث التي شهدتها قرية عزبة محرم بمحافظة البحيرة خلال الشهر الماضي.

Freedoms Committee organized at the Press Syndicate, yesterday evening I stopped to protest in solidarity with our colleague, Kamal Murad, editor of Al ?Dawn?, because of the attack which it said Kamal signed by some police officers while covering events in the village of Ezbet Muharram in Beheira last month.

بدأت الوقفة في السادسة والنصف مساء بتجمع عدد من الصحفيين علي سلالم النقابة يتقدمهم محمد عبدالقدوس، مقرر لجنة الحريات، حيث رددوا عبارات منددة باعتداء وتعذيب رجال الشرطة للصحفيين، فيما حالت قوات الأمن دون نزول المحتجين من علي سلالم النقابة بعد أن أحاطتهم بكردون أمني.

Started to stand at six-thirty in the evening gathering of journalists on the number of staircases syndicate spearheaded Mohammed Abdulkuddous, Rapporteur of the Commission freedoms, where they shouted slogans condemning the words of assault and torture by police of journalists, as security forces prevented protesters without going down the stairs from the union after brief them Kurdish security source.

وانتهت الوقفة في السابعة والنصف مساء بكلمة لمحمد عبدالقدوس، حث فيها وزارة الداخلية أن تفتح باب التحقيق في الوقائع المذكورة في أقرب فرصة.

The stand ended at half past seven on the evening of the word of Muhammad Abdulkuddous, he urged the Ministry of the Interior to open the door to investigate the facts mentioned at the earliest opportunity.

من جهتها، طالبت منظمة ?مراسلون بلا حدود? بإسقاط التهم الموجهة ضد صحفي الفجر، مشيرة إلي أنه قد تعرض للتعنيف علي يد عناصر من الشرطة في الرحمانية بالبحيرة.

For its part, called the ?Reporters Without Borders? to drop charges against journalist Dawn, noting that he had been subjected to violent elements of the hands of police in Rahmanih Lake.

وفي اتصال مع ?مراسلون بلا حدود?، اعتبر مراد أنه وقع ضحية مؤامرة من الشرطة، وقال: إن النيابة العامة استندت إلي شهادات مزورة أدلي بها رئيس قسم الشرطة في الرحمانية لإدانته، كما أنه لم يخف استغرابه لسرعة إحالة ملفه إلي النيابة العامة.

In a call with ?Reporters Without Borders?, Murad said he was the victim of a conspiracy by police, said: "The public prosecution had relied on false testimony made by the Chief of Police in Rahmanih for his conviction, and it did not conceal his surprise at the speed transmit his file to the Public Prosecution.

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Commonground · Jul 16, 2008

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Guizhou still Weng'an martial law to prevent leakage of the truth
New Tang Dynasty TV www.ntdtv.com 2008-7-14 04:15

(NTDTV reporters Ling Xie, LU Fang, Xiong Bin July 14 interview reports) of force to suppress the CPC Guizhou 6 ˙ 28 Weng'an after the incident, the Weng'an County still martial law, the Armed Police Force patrolling in the streets, are an important junction Dai Hongxiu chapter in the post, local people said that the threat of people can not leak the truth, not obedient to the Commissioner arrested.

Weng'an County, people told reporters that the current Weng'an County there are hundreds of armed police forces stationed at any time inventory stops, all the people are not random access.

People: the streets he will Weng'an came to interrogate you, if you do not know that you will be locked up, this time to work out those who can not go out, if you to to, at least to check the clear Let you out, say, ordinary people can not.

The people also said that the Government has also sent daily threat of farmers and students can not leak the truth, not obedient arrested on customs, people are敢怒不敢言.

People: those farmers, many schools, ah, is that these people can not go out, so to speak chaos will be arrested, do a good job has a few hundred, the Government should say so she was drowned to death, is not the case.

Guizhou from the Democratic members of the civil-finding mission, July 6 into the Weng'an hit a snag, a member of the West Chen said that the army is still Weng'an County, the armed police patrolling everywhere, all wearing Hongxiu important junctions in the chapter post , Many people are afraid to speak.

Chen West: our hostage back from the Weng'an County, the trial interrogations us that our two phone recording T U disk, and so on the information received, Shenpa exposed the truth in their interests, so they do not allow anyone interfere.

It is understood that the deceased Li Shufen the Weng'an incident Gandie thank the new July 1 was the police criminal detention Fuquan City, Guizhou, saying "suspected of assembling people to attack state organs." However, I am grateful to the new June 28 and not in the spot, the only thing in online communication.

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Commonground · Jul 16, 2008

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China to strengthen control before the Olympic Games in order to maintain stability
New Tang Dynasty TV www.ntdtv.com 2008-7-15 00:32

(Voice of America reporter Qi Feng Washington on July 14 reported) in the dawn of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese authorities to strengthen control and suppression, said the authorities to maintain the stability of the situation. At the same time, critics pointed out that the Chinese authorities should accept the lessons of Weng'an events for the public to have open channels of speech, to avoid social conflicts and anger backlog, leading to uncontrollable situation.

Washington Post recently reported that in the August 8 at the dawn of the Beijing Olympic Games, the relevant authorities in Beijing to strengthen the central government petition the petitioners interception. China's provincial party and government officials also informed the meeting by telephone, asking them to stop petitioners to Beijing to disturb the harmonious atmosphere of the Beijing Olympic Games. In addition, the authorities have also strengthened the monitoring of dissidents.

At the same time, the network also strengthened the control of speech, the deployment of various forces, killed all the authorities do not like the remarks. These statements include Sichuan major earthquake which caused many school buildings collapsed nearly 10,000 students died, the poor construction quality of the relationship with corruption, the death of the parents asked students pursue construction of the school buildings and poor quality of those responsible for the problem, Guizhou recently Weng'an Disturbance of the truth problem.

Chinese writer Zhao Da Gong, the authorities are now in a Fengshengheli, Caomujiebing the state, make every effort to control the situation, but simple and crude means of control: "These things, including the Weng'an very strict control. I opened a Web site, sometimes just Can see that 'this statement by the mask, the mask was to speak'.. This is often. That is, in the arrival of the Olympic Games, China has no freedom of expression even more. "

In the Weng'an show after, the Communist authorities limited the recognition, frozen beverage, cold day, the accumulation of the community and officials of the Party and government departments such a strong sense of anger, apparently with the relevant officials as a long-term, as chaos Relevant.

China's official China Daily in English or even recognize, like the Weng'an incident "showed the public with the theory that their service is the relationship between the not so harmonious."

Weng'an in handling the incident, the CPC Guizhou Province indirect recognition of the number one hand to the public over the issue of repression, in his words is the local party and government officials of dereliction of duty over the years, a problem on the use of the public security forces to deal with the masses. The official comment on the Qilu Evening News said, "easily dispatched the police, for those who are most likely illegal administrative acts, for the same interests as the main party to the dispute 'protect', the course of time, the Government's credibility will be greatly reduced, the public security departments lost prestige , Daza public security organs would not strange. "

Although the official Chinese news media now acknowledge the existence of government agencies to the public have the phenomenon of indiscriminate repression, but all indications are that many Chinese local governments are not prepared to convergence. China's Hebei Province from the writers and commentators Zhuang Tian Qi said that the CPC Hebei authorities recently launched in Hebei to make "big Bianyang 2003" campaign, it is necessary to fully dismantle the so-called illegal construction, illegal construction should be removed, but authorities did not force the implementation of across-the-board Stresses the law removed, it is clear the community will create more resentment: "This is once in the demolition process, after the conflict, if it was he himself is prosecuted, then the petition departments not to Zhuangzhi, and lawyers not to notice this case, all Have not received demolition case, the Court faced such a trial is not the case. "

China's official control of the news media over the years did not report the demolition was ordered to issues, land disputes. Observers pointed out that the riot in the Weng'an nature is such that problems caused by the accumulation of a large number of final results. Secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial CPC Committee has been quite frankly acknowledge this point. However, the Chinese writers and commentators Zhao Da Gong believes that the measures taken by the Government, can not let the public with more venues to express their views, but to strengthen repression: "Do not say such a similar incident Weng'an, what events to suppress the eradication Nipped in the bud, absolutely not be allowed to happen. Now is the Communist Party and the people, not the way. "

The official comment on the Qilu Evening News, proposed a series of questions: "Why do some of the vital interests, in most people do not understand it, does not support the circumstances, have to impose? why certain government departments is still at the embryonic stage The people say no irregularities, have to wait until the resentment aroused the masses, come a 'broad-brush' rectification, and eventually intensify contradictions? ?Why the two groups of interests between the dispute must be dispatched police to 'pull partial hand'" ?

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Commonground · Jul 16, 2008

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Of the media: the Olympic Games - Chinese people shut up season
New Tang Dynasty TV www.ntdtv.com 2008-7-14 19:22

[New Tang Dynasty July 14 - - (Associated Press TIAN Qing integrated compiler) from the Beijing Olympics less than a month, the Communist authorities stepped up persecution of dissidents, religious groups, writers and journalists. Foreign media said that the Olympic Games has become the Chinese people must shut up the season, non-compliance with the CPC to improve its human rights commitments in 2001 also revealed the ugly forms completely.

Washington Post reported on June 10 when Huang and two friends stepped out of a restaurant in Chengdu, surrounded the police approached him, after he had been "illegal possession of state secrets" offences held in a detention center in Chengdu.

45-year-old Huang Qi and dozens of Chinese writers and lawyers, before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese Communists large-scale operation in the suppression of dissidents, was sentenced, detention, house arrest, tracking or experienced harassment. According to International PEN American Center (PENAmericanCenter) The data released last Tuesday, at least 44 writers are now being held in Chinese prisons, a figure higher than the beginning of this year's figures.

With the advent of the Olympic Games, Chinese public security personnel locked the article published by the abuse of power and corruption pass information to foreigners who, like Huang Qi's Web site 64 days. This site was built in the United States http://www.64tianwang.com servers in China by the Chinese Communists blockade.

Falungong repression intensified

Falun Dafa Information Center news from the Beijing Olympics less than a month, the Communist authorities increased the criticism of the Falun Gong propaganda, carried out house-to-house grasping meeting, with a few thousand people will be detained in-education facility and the detention center, in the past seven months In Beijing alone has more than 200 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested.

Most of these students were held in detention centers, there are at least 30 people without trial was locked up in a reformatory serving two and a half years time.

Although the Beijing authorities promised in the 2001 Olympics will help China improve its human rights record, Amnesty International and other organizations found that the Chinese government instead of using the Olympics as the increased persecution of religious and political dissidents an excuse.

Falun Dafa Information Center announced this year about 1,000 students in prison, many of the police house-to-house raids were arrested. There are many people were tortured to death within a few weeks, including the 42-year-old singer in the Proterozoic.
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Commonground · Jul 16, 2008

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008

FireFox - A Security Audit Tool
Firefix as a security audit tool.

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Sally Furniss · Jul 16, 2008

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> Internet is becoming the people's power in China
By Watson Meng
Jul 11, 2008 - 4:48:51 AM

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Boxun was founded in 2000, most of the breaking news of Boxun is from citizen journalists . Since 2000, thousands of people in China have written or submitted news for Boxun. From the news release, especially from RSF and CPJ, you may know that a number of people in China arrested or charged because of submitting articles to Boxun. From my eight plus years experience, I observe the Internet's impact on China and many limits in China.

Impact

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Citizen journalism: Advantages in China [/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Media control has been broken: [/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It is much easier for government to control traditional media as described by previous speakers yesterday. With Internet, people can give and receive information so easily. Many individuals are able to broadcast news through BBS, blog and news service such as Boxun. In the example of Boxun, it releases broken news (important or not so important) every day, with more and more pictures and videos. Many incidents are now exposed on Internet first, then the official news release follows. Such as SARS, Bird flu etc.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Under the pressure of Internet, official media is trying to cover more topics than before.[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]With Internet, Governments are better informed about the truth and what people think. So Internet is playing an important role in affecting policy making of both Chinese and foreign governments. Chinese government has a system of internal news letters - Nei Can, for different levels of officials, some are for the top leaders. Internet is becoming an important source of this type of news letters. I do not think governments will sacrifice its own interest to benefit its people voluntarily, media is one of the forces people can use to balance the power. Internet is becoming the people's power in China, which push China make improvements. [/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Two weeks ago, when I applied the visa to this conference in Washington DC, I met officials of Congressional-Executive Commission on China. They told me that they are reading Internet information about China closely, especially on Boxun. [/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I am sure Internet has also become a major information source for NGOs, such as RSF, CPJ and Human Rights in China etc. The NGOs then take actions to affect policy makers.[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Limits[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We all use the term "Internet", technically, China does not have Internet. As all Internet traffics are behind the most complicated firewall, it is Intranet, similar to a company's internal network. Greg has done excellent analysis on this, I will add a little on this in a less technical way.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]1. Firewall - contents are filtered (web contents, MSN chatting, emails)[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]2. Web sites attacked outside China, shutdown in China: last year, Boxun's received DDOS attack, blogs deleted by hacker. Boxun's video site was hacked this month. Last months, over 60 videos sharing sites closed.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]3. Virus targeted to dissidents: Faked virus email about this conference...[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]4. User's computer monitored (Net Caf��, home PC in China and outside China)[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]5. Email account safety: Users' private information, account's password.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]6. Punishing...[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Virus, spying and requesting users' information from Internet service providers such as Yahoo, the main reason to do so, is to find who did what. The other limit is the safety of Internet users in China.[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]For example, a few reporters were sentenced by using evidences provided by Yahoo, including Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning. [/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Among the arrested Internet users, a number of them written or reporting for Boxun, here are a few confirmed reporters arrested, there are more un-confirmed and many others threatened. [/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Conclusion[/FONT]

[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The example of Boxun shows that Internet has created opportunities for people to express themselves in China. Even though there are so many limits in China, there are more potentials to be explored down the road. It may create China's path to democracy.[/FONT]

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sharon sanders · Jul 16, 2008

I followed a bird flu link and found this cached page - evidently this site is down now. Look at the purpose and the comment about "theft" and "conspiracy" inserted on the page...

I followed a bird flu link and found this cached page - evidently this site is down now. Look at the purpose and the comment about "theft" and "conspiracy" inserted on the page...

This site has been frozen pending payment of financial dues arrears

الموقع معروض للإيجار لمزيد من التفاصيل اضغط هنا
The site has been put up for rent for more details click here

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تفاصيل اتهامات السرقة والتآمر مع الشرطة والبلاغات الكيدية على نفس الوصلة

Details of charges of theft and conspiracy with the police and malicious communications on the same link

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[SIZE=-1]الرئيسية ?? مصر ?? مركز الأرض لحقوق الإنسان[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Home ?? Egypt ?? Land Center for Human Rights[/SIZE] </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="760"><tbody><tr><td style="border-style: solid; border-color: White rgb(226, 233, 246) rgb(226, 233, 246) White; border-width: thin;" valign="top" width="570">

رسالة إلى أعضاء مجلس الشعب و المجتمع المدني في مصر

Letter to the People's Assembly members and civil society in Egypt

أزمة أنفلونزا الطيور فى مصر

Bird flu crisis in Egypt

[SIZE=-1]31/8/2006[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]يعد هذا التقرير العدد رقم "35"من سلسلة الأرض والفلاح، ويهدف للتعرف على مرض أنفلونزا الطيور باعتباره من الأمراض الحديثة فى مصر.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]This report is No. "35" series of land and the farmer, and aims to identify bird flu as a disease of modern Egypt.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]والتي تسبب دخول المرض وانتشاره إلى خسائر اقتصادية واجتماعية وخيمة أضرت بقطاع عريض من المواطنين المصريين.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Which caused the entry and spread of disease to economic losses and social consequences affected the broad sector of Egyptians.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]وذلك لأن صناعة الدواجن في مصر من الصناعات الإنتاجية المهمة حيث تبلغ قيمة الاستثمار فيها حوالي 17 مليار جنيه ويعمل بها حوالى2.5 مليون إنسان ويبلغ عدد مزارع تربية الدواجن في مصر حوالي 22000 مزرعة منتشرة في ربوع مصر توفر حوالي 750 مليون دجاجة سنوياً وقد نمت صناعة الدواجن في مصر نمواً كبيراً خاصة في السنوات العشر الأخيرة إلي درجة تحقيق الاكتفاء الذاتي و فتح أسواق التصدير .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]This is because the poultry industry in Egypt task productivity of industries with an investment value of about 17 billion pounds and employs about 2.5 million people and the number of poultry farms in Egypt about 22000 farms scattered throughout Egypt provide about 750 million chickens annually has grown poultry industry Egypt in particular has grown considerably in the last ten years to the point of achieving self-sufficiency and opening export markets.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]ويتناول التقرير فى الجزء الأول لمحة تاريخية عن المرض، والتعريف بالمرض، وأعراضه ، ووسائل الوقاية منه مشيراً إلى أن أهم طرق العدوى هي:الانتقال المباشر من طائر لآخر.والانتقال غير المباشر عن طريق استنشاق الهواء المحمل بقطرات بها الفيروس أو أي أدوات ملوثة بالفيروس ( مثل المعدات ووسائل النقل والأحذية وملابس العاملين في مزارع الدواجن ).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]The report deals in the first part of the historical overview of the disease and to publicize the disease, symptoms and means of prevention, pointing out that the main routes of infection: the transition from direct bird to another. Indirect and move through the inhalation of air drops by carrying the virus or any instruments contaminated with the virus (such as And transport equipment, footwear and clothing workers in poultry farms).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]وكذلك الطيور والحيوانات الحاملة للفيروس التي يمكن ان تلوث الماء والغذاء وأيضاً الحشرات وحركة الإنسان بين مزارع الدواجن يمكن ان تشارك في نقل العدوى الطيور البرية المهاجرة خصوصاً الطيور المائية و( البط ) يلعب دوراً خطيراً في دخول العدوى في منطقة ما وانتشارها إلي باقي المناطق حيث وجدت الأوبئة في الطيور في مناطق عديدة من العالم تسير مع خط الهجرة.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]As well as birds and animals carrying the virus, which can contaminate water, food and insects and also the movement of rights between poultry farms could be involved in the transmission of wild birds, especially migratory waterbirds and (ducks) plays a role in entering a serious infection in the region and spread to other areas where there Epidemic In birds in many parts of the world moving in line with immigration.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]ويتناول التقرير فى الجزء الثانى علاقة مرض أنفلونزا الطيور بالإنسان، موضحاً طرق نقل عدوى المرض، وأعراض الانسان المصاب بالمرض، وكيفية وقاية الانسان من المرض.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]The report addresses the relationship in the second part of Avian flu in human beings, explaining methods of transmission of the disease, symptoms of the disease patient rights, and how to protect rights of the disease.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]حيث يؤكد على أن طرق نقل عدوى الفيروس إلى الانسان تكون فقط عن طريق الاحتكاك المباشر بين الطير المصابة والعاملين بمزارع الدواجن عن طريق تلوث الهواء والأكل والشرب بفضلات الطيور المصابة فقد ثبت ان جميع المصابين بأنفلونزا الطيور من بين العاملين بالمزارع ومجازر الدواجن والمحتكين احتكاك مباشر بالطيور المصابة مثل الأطباء البيطريين.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]He affirmed that the methods of transmission of the virus to humans is only through direct contact between infected birds and poultry farmer workers by air pollution and eating and drinking sewage infected birds have all proved to be infected with bird flu among farm workers and poultry and massacres Mahtekin direct contact infected birds such as Veterinarians.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]أما الجزء الثالث فيتناول كيفية ظهور انفلونزا الطيور فى مصر، وكيف واجهت الحكومة الأزمة وانتشار المرض، كما يتعرض لبعض التوصيات مؤكداً على أنه بالرغم من ذيوع أخبار انتشار أنفلونزا الطيور في دول عديدة من العالم إلا أن الجهات المسئولة لم تلجأ إ لي وضع خطة لمواجهة أنفلونزا الطيور وخاصة بعد أن وصل المرض إلي تركيا ويتضح ذلك من خلال النقاط التالية: .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]The third part deals with how the emergence of bird flu in Egypt, and how the government faced a crisis and the spread of the disease, also exposed to some of the recommendations stressing that despite the publicity news spread of avian flu in many countries of the world but the authorities did not resort to me develop a plan to cope with bird flu And especially after the disease arrived to Turkey and is evident through the following points:.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]فالسلطات البيطرية لم تقدم علي تسجيل لقاحات أنفلونزا الطيور ولا سمحت باستيراد مخزون استراتيجي كجزء من الخطة لم تتخذ قرارات قبل ظهور المرض تلزم الاهالى تسكين الطيور الريفية وتمنع التربية علي أسطح المنازل وتلزم تسكين الحمام .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Veterinary authorities did not provide for the registration of vaccines for bird flu not allowed to import stock as part of a strategic plan did not take decisions before the onset of the disease are required calming the people and prevent bird rural education on the roofs of houses and needed calming bathroom.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]لم يكن هناك خطة طارئة موضوعة لمواجهة المرض بل تركت هذه الخطة إلي ساعة حدوث الأمر الذي أدى إلي التخبط في القرارات والحيرة جراء استشارة المنظمات الدولية والخبراء المحليين وأصحاب الصناعة حول الطريقة المثلى للمحاصرة والإعدام والتلقيح من عدمه .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]There were no emergency plan in place to tackle the disease but left the plan at an hour which led to confusion and uncertainty in decisions by international organizations and consult local experts and owners of the industry on how best to besiege and executions, vaccination or not.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]أخذت اللجنة القومية بتوصيات منظمة الأغذية والزراعة والمنظمة العالمية لصحة الحيوان بالمحاصرة والإعدام دون أخذ الظروف المصرية بالاعتبار وبالتالي لم يتم اعتماد التحصين كجزء هام وأساسي من الخطة الطارئة .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]National Committee took the recommendations of the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Organization for Animal Health surround and executions without taking into account the conditions of Egyptian and thus has not been credited immunization as an important and essential emergency plan.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]أخذت المداولات والاستشارات أسابيع حول اعتماد التحصين الامر الذي أدى إلي الكارثة في انتشار المرض والفشل الذريع في محاصرته .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Took weeks of deliberations and consultations on the adoption of immunization which led to disaster in the spread of the disease and utter failure to curb.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]فقد أوصت اللجنة الفنية باعتماد التحصين بعد أن انتشر المرض في 16 محافظة.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Technical Committee has recommended the adoption of vaccination after the disease spread in 16 provinces.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]كذلك كان قرار اللجنة بمصر التحصين بالجدود وأمهات البياض فقط وهذه الدواجن تشكل 1% فقط من أعداد الدواجن في مصر .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Also, what was the Commission's decision on immunization in Egypt grandparents and mothers only, and these brilliant poultry constitute only 1% of the preparation of poultry in Egypt.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]تأخر اللجنة الفنية في تعميم التحصين أدي إلي خسارة 30 مليون طائر خلال 10 أسابيع تشكل 60 % من مجمل الطيور التي كانت موجودة .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Lateness of the Technical Committee in circulating immunization led to the loss of 30 million birds during the 10 weeks constitute 60% of all birds that were there.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]ويطالب المركز في نهاية التقرير بعدد من التوصيات يناشد بها مؤسسات التجمع المدني واعضاء مجلس الشعب المصري العمل على تنفيذها حرصا على صحة وحياة وثروات المصريين .[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]It demands the end of the report in a number of recommendations appealed to the assembly of civil institutions and members of the Egyptian people working to implement the sake of health, life and wealth Egyptians.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]يمكنكم الحصول على نسخة من التقرير من مقر المركز او من على موقعنا على الانترنت[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]You can obtain a copy of the report from the headquarters of the Centre or on our website on the Internet[/SIZE]

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Media workers homicides increase due to Iraq wa

Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 12:15 pm
Press Release: University of Otago  Wednesday 16 July 2008
Increase in homicides of media workers due to Iraq war
In many countries, media workers such as journalists, camera/sound operators and translators are being killed due to their jobs, according to just published research by the University of Otago, Wellington.
The study in the international journal ‘Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health’, examined five authoritative data bases to find the number and risk factors for all media worker homicides worldwide during 2002-2006.

The researchers found at least 370 media workers who were killed intentionally, with the highest levels in Iraq, Philippines, Colombia and Russia. There were 214 additional deaths that did not meet the researchers’ strict definition of homicide, although there was evidence that a significant proportion of these were ‘accidents’ or ‘cover-ups’.
Only a small proportion of those killed were foreigners, as 89% of the media workers were local citizens. The confirmed homicides of Iraqi media workers increased from zero in 2002 to over 40 in 2006. There was at least one homicide in 54 countries.
“We found a significant increase in homicides of media workers, with annual homicides doubling from 41 in 2002, to 104 in 2006”, says Dr George Thomson from the Department of Public Health. “They were nearly all nationals of the country they worked in, and less than 25% of the homicides resulted in an arrest or a prosecution.”
The researchers found that the greatest risk to media workers is in countries where Governments are unable to control armed groups. Other risks include levels of political terror and corruption.
“Media workers are under great risk in these countries because a free media is the direct opponent of groups or governments that profit from corruption, that maintain power by force and are not seen as legitimate by the public,” says Dr Thomson.
The researchers argue that the killing of media workers is an important public health issue, because of the media’s role as a determinant of societal well-being. If there is not a free flow of information, the health of a society is likely to be compromised.
The researchers suggest that the organisations that investigate and publicise media worker deaths provide an essential service for the international common good. The organisations reviewed for this study were: the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, UNESCO, the International News Safety Institute and the International Press Institute.
This study was partly funded by the Wellington Medical Research Foundation.

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sharon sanders · Jul 23, 2008

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Apparently bloggers are fighting back in Egypt.....

Innovated ..

حملة على الانترنت لاقتراح 100طريقة لمواجهة الاستبداد 7/23/2008 2:16:00 PM

Campaign on the Internet to propose a way to cope 100 tyranny 7/23/2008 2:16:00 PM

مصراوي - خاص - دعت حركة مدونون ضد الحزب الوطنى الى المساهمة فى الحملة التى تنظمها تحت اسم ابتكر والتى تستمر لمدة شهر بهدف ابتكار 100 طريقة لمواجهة الاستبداد.

Msrawi - special - called the movement against the ruling National Democratic Party bloggers to contribute to the campaign organized under the name innovated which will last for a month aimed at devising a way to cope 100 tyranny.

وقالت الحركة فى بيان لها - تلقى مصراوي نسخة منه - نتابع بقلق بالغ ما أعلن عن قانون البث المرئي والمسموع و ما حدث من النظام الحاكم من إلغاء حقيقي للانتخابات التكميلية لمجلس الشعب في دائرتي دسوق والجمرك وما قام به الحاكم العسكري من التصديق علي الأحكام العسكرية علي قيادات الإخوان.

The movement said in a statement - Msrawi received a copy of it - are following with great concern what the law was announced on Radio and Television Broadcasting and what happened to the real ruler of the abolition of the supplementary elections to the People's Council of Chambers Desouk and Customhouse and his military ruler of the ratification of the provisions on the military leaders Muslim Brotherhood.

وتابع البيان: "نعتبر كل هذا علامة ضعف حقيقة للنظام وإشارة قوية علي أهمية الاجتهاد في النضال السياسي".

The statement continued: "We consider this a sign of weakness and the reality of a strong signal on the importance of diligence in the political struggle."

وأضاف: "نشدد علي أن الاتجاه لإقصاء المعارضة المصرية سيقويها في هذه اللحظات الفارقة من عمر الوطن".

He added: "We emphasize that the direction of removing the strongest Egyptian opposition at this decisive moment in the life of the nation."

وشدد البيان على أن المعارضة وفي القلب فيها جماعة الإخوان المسلمين يجب ان تدرس الموقف من جديد وتعيد النظر في آليات مبتكرة للتعامل مع أساليب النظام الاقصائية المتطرفة والرد ردا مبتكرا يربك حسابات النظام".

The statement stressed that the opposition in the heart where the Muslim Brotherhood must examine the situation again and reconsider the innovative mechanisms to deal with extremist methods of the exclusionary and innovative responses confused accounts of the system. "

وأضاف: "نلفت النظر إلي أهمية تمسكنا كشباب خاصة كمدونين أحرار بالأمل في طريقنا نحو مواجهة الاستبداد والفساد بطريقة سلمية ونفس طويل وعقل مبتكر".

He added: "draw attention to the importance of our youth in particular codes liberals hope on our way towards the face of despotism and corruption in a peaceful and the same long and creative mind."

واستطرد: "نشير إلي أننا في حاجة ملحة لإعادة التفكير في وسائل مبتكرة للتعامل مع الأساليب العنيفة للنظام الحاكم، وسائل تعظم الأمل وتقوي عوامل نجاح الهدف وتمهد لنجاح عظيما للاتجاه الإصلاحي والتغييري في المجتمع المصري".

He added: "We refer to the urgent need to rethink and innovative ways to deal with the violent methods of the regime in power, the means to maximize hope and strengthen the factors of success and pave the goal of the success of the great trend of reform and change in Egyptian society."

وأختتمت الحركة بيانها قائلة "ندعو في هذا الإطار إلي التفاعل معنا في تفعيل حملة (ابتكر) عبر التفكير في 100 وسيلة مبتكرة خلال فترة شهر من حينه للرد علي النظام الحاكم ولمواجهة أساليبه الاستبدادية".

The movement, saying her statement: "We call this framework to interact with us in activating the campaign (invented) through thinking in an innovative 100 during the month from time to respond to the ruling regime and confront authoritarian methods".

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