Two Saudi female activists Wajeha Al-Huwaider, and Fawzia Al-Ayouni were sentenced to ten months in prison, and a two year travel ban. Huwaider and Ayouni have long championed women’s rights with their organization “The Association for the Protection and Defense of Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia” which take on wide-ranging reforms including domestic violence, female circumcision, and...

Saudi protesters, mostly women and children, are continuing their fight to release more than thirty thousand unjustly detained family members, who have been languishing behind bars. They are doing it with renewed vigor, in the form of online and ground campaigns supporting Saudi political prisoners using the hashtag #اعتصام_الحرية, translated as “Protest for Freedom.” While the...

On fairobserver.com Cyberdissidents Blogger Board member Kacem El Ghazzali, analyzes different campaigns to promote individual freedoms in Morocco, what impact the constitutional changes had, and what the country needs. El Ghazzali writes: "Democracy for us is not a technical process, reduced at its edges, between the people and the ballot boxes. We see it as a social and...

In another fundamental sweep of people’s basic freedoms - the Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission has blocked usage of the Viber messaging application, Wednesday. In a statement released by the commission, "The Viber applications has been suspended and the (regulator) affirms it will take appropriate action against any other applications or services if they fail to...

Hundreds of websites are about to be blocked in Jordan, as the government made claims that they were not properly registered under the country’s Press and Publications Law. Last Sunday, The Jordanian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) ordered local Internet providers to block all websites that lacked licenses. Activists began to distribute lists of alternative internet servers, as...