Cyber Dissident
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The Cyber dissident
MIT2412www.bloggingatuwo.webs.comHanan Kamal Eldahry
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Cyber-dissident• a professional journalist or citizen
journalist who posts news, information, or commentary on the internet that implies criticism of a government or regime.
Source: wikipedia
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Orgnizations Offering a Community for Cyber-
dissidents
• Global Voices: globalvoicesonline.org• A leading participatory media news
room for voices from the developing world.• Goals:• Call Attention• Facilitate & enable new voices• Advocate for freedom of expression
Source: www.globalvoicesonline.org
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Organizations Defending Journalists Worldwide
• Reporters Without Borders• http://www.rsf.org• Mission:• Defends• Fights• Gives Financial Aid• Works
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Organizations Defending Journalists
Worldwide• Committee to Protect
Journalists• http://cpj.org• publicly reveals abuses
against the press • warns journalists and
news organizations
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Why is press freedom
important?
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Answer:
• Without a free press, few other human rights are attainable.
• It is a CORE right/freedom
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2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors.
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2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• 125 journalists in all behind bars on December 1, 2008
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2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• CHINA-world’s #1 jailer of journalists
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2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• Cuba, Burma, Eritrea, and Uzbekistan round out the top five jailers
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2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• Forty-five of the journalists on CPJ's census are freelancers
SOURCE: http://cpj.org/reports/2008/12/cpjs-2008-prison-census-online-and-in-jail.php
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Freedom Loving Countries
Source: Reporters without Borders
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What do the Top 20 Freedom Loving Countries have in
common?
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Answer:
• A parliamentary democratic system, and not being involved in any war.
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China
• 24 of 28 jailed journalists worked online.• The leading human activist in China, Hu Jia
arrested
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Cuba• the world's second
worst jailer• 21 writers and editors
in prison• Héctor Maseda
Gutiérrez- 65 is the oldest of those jailed in Cuba.
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Burma• Third worst jailer• Holding 14
journalists.• Maung Thura
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Middle East• Syria leads in cyber-
repression: #159• Egypt: #146• Abdel Karim
Suleiman, a 23 y.o. Egyptian blogger
• Isreal: #46th domestically and 149th outside its own territory
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Iran• 166th on the list of Freedom
Loving Countries• Applies death penalty to Web
Crimes• Hossein Derakhshan• Kick started the countries
blogging revolution.• 34 year old Iranian Canadian• award-winning weblog, "Editor:
Myself" (http://hoder.com/weblog), which was started in September, 2001
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Where does Canada Stand?
• #13 on the List of Freedom Loving Countries
• Aside from New Zealand and Canada, the first 20 positions are held by European countries.
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United States• Holding photographer Ibrahim
Jassam without charge in Iraq
• Made CPJ's list of countries jailing journalists for the fifth consecutive year
• 36th domestically and 119th outside its own territory) and Israel (46th domestically and 149th outside its own territory
• As of Dec. 2008:The U.S. military still refusing to release him.
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A decade of imprisonment
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Trends• 2008 tally reflects
the second consecutive decline in the total number of jailed journalists
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Trends
• Imprisonments rose significantly in 2001, after governments imposed sweeping national security laws in the wake of the 9/11
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Trends
• Print and Internet journalists make up the bulk of the census
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Trends• Most Common Charges:• charges unrelated to journalism• Violations of censorship rules• Criminal Defamation• charges of ethnic or religious insult.
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Trends
• For the fifth consecutive Year the U.S. makes the list of countries jailing journalists