UAE Community Blog: MENA Online Censorship Report

18 November, 2005

Secret Dubai is mentioned in the "False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa" report by Human Rights Watch.

Download it here (5.17mb PDF).

Moryarti

secretdubai said...: Woah. Only they didn't realise that I'm not the first blog blocked - just the first English language one.

The first blog blocked - still blocked, I believe - is an Arabic one written from Al Ain.; 18 November, 2005 22:59
samuraisam said...: hmm, weird, there isnt even a section for the UAE in it.; 18 November, 2005 23:12
secretdubai said...: Here his Blogger profile. But his blog, The Land of Sands, is blocked.

Sadly not knowing Arabic I don't have a clue what it's about, nor can I access it from home.; 18 November, 2005 23:18
BuJ said...: moryati,

thanks for that!

SD,

i checked the Land of Sands from the UK and it works (obviously) but the last update was 14 November 2005. Perhaps he's asking someone outside the ae to post on his behalf.

haven't had the time to read it properly though.; 19 November, 2005 00:44
secretdubai said...: BuJ - I expect that like so many hundreds of users he can't find a single way round or through the 100% watertight, indestructible, absolutely totally definitely impenetrable Etisalat proxy...

... ;)

Proxy apart, wouldn't posting-by-email be possible anyway, if you'd set it up in advance?; 19 November, 2005 00:56