Moments ago, CyberDissidents.org received word from a young Moroccan blogger that he was the target of several Facebook messages threatening his life.  The man who posted these death threats is named Abohodaifa Al-Ansari.   The pro-democracy Moroccan blogger, Kacem El Ghazzali, says in a post entitled “Death Threats”: “In the first message, the sender threatened slaughtering me...

Syrian dissident Ashraf Al-Muqdad has published a piece on his titled “Conspiracy Theory and Arabic Naivete".   With withering satire, Al-Muqdad criticizes the flourishing of conspiracy theories around the Arab world. "This is what America wants; this is what Israel wants; it’s an imperialistic conspiracy; Zionist conspiracy; Masonic… if you try to read any popular...

Moments ago, we received an update from Lebanese cyberdissident Imad Bazzi.  Following the arrest of a journalist, Imad and his colleagues decided to launch a 3-day campaign to protest the lack of civil liberties in Lebanon.   What follows is Imad’s front-line account of day one of the hunger strike and the reasons they embarked on it.     Blogging day one of the hunger strike   ...

"Down with Husni Mubarak," "Down with Emergency law" are among the chants echoing throughout Egyptian cities today.  As part of the "Revolution of Silence," hundreds of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest police brutality.  Khaled Said, an Egyptian citizen, was killed on June 6th by security forces who beat him to death for asking why he...

Cyberdissidents.org received multiple complaints today from Syrian dissidents who have been unable to log in to their Facebook pages despite using proxy servers to avoid Syria’s ban on the website. Many of the dissidents who have contacted us believe that their current difficulties are related to ongoing efforts by the Syrian dictatorship to block particular websites....