The president of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, Fozan Al Harbi, https://twitter.com/fowzanm  was summoned today by Riyad’s Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution. Al Harbi was questioned, and will have to endure an official investigation on Saturday May 11th. Fozan is one of Saudi’s preeminent human rights defenders, helping political prisoners and their families...

Cyberdissidents.org Blogger Board Member Maikel Nabil writes "If you’re an atheist, then you’re lucky you aren’t in Bangladesh this week. Last Sunday, violence exploded in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, leaving at least 30 people dead. The violence was organized by a coalition of Islamic groups calling themselves “Hefazat-e Islam,” which means in...

According to an article in FreeArabs.com, Imad Eddin Habib, a 22 year old Moroccan Atheist Activist, is wanted by Moroccan police for questioning. The article descibes his recently created facebook group "Council of Ex-Muslims in Morocco," an Atheist activist group that has gained notoriety in the country. Habib was recently forced underground because of this, something...

Cyberdissidents.org co-founder Nir Boms wrote for the Wall Street Journal on the continuing conflict in Syria: "They come in every day now, the body counts from Syria, consistent and painful: 141, 201, 152, 81 (a lucky day, that was). This past Sunday, 566 bodies were found, 483 of them in Damascus and its suburbs alone, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of...

  Last week, CyberDissidents.org’s Arabic Program Manager, Ahed Al Hendi, presented at the 2013 Milton Wolff Conference in Vienna, Austria.  He highlighted the Syrian liberal movements and the failure of major news outlets to cover it objectively.    Al Hendi said that there have been four competing narratives in Syria since 1970. He divided the narratives into two...