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Spotlight: Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights

ZooPark: New spyware campaign targets Android users in the MENA

ZooPark: New spyware campaign targets Android users in the MENA

25 May 2018
Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

A targeted cyber espionage campaign with servers based in Iran has targeted the Android mobile devices of users in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran.

Middle East & North Africa Highlights
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Middle East & North Africa Attacks Gender

In a month characterized by repression, a pro-LGBTQI+ campaign lifts some spirits

Bahrain tracks down activists on social media; Israeli troops shoot Palestinian protesters and journalists covering protest; Egyptian photojournalist receives UNESCO prize; campaign for LGBTQ rights in the Middle East and North Africa declares "#NoLongerAlone"

‎ Joey Ayoub for IFEX ‎ 2 May 2018

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Gender

'No Longer Alone': LGBT Voices from the Middle East, North Africa

LGBT activists from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa are defying state-sponsored repression and social stigma.

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)‎16 April 2018

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Freedom of Assembly

As UN HRC takes place, governments in the MENA region step up repression

Concerns about abuses and Bahrain's Grand Prix; the risks of protesting and covering protests in Iraq; Egypt's media attacks extend beyond its borders; a controversial online game censored; a new report from Syria.

‎ Joey Ayoub for IFEX ‎ 4 April 2018

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Honouring women's rights defenders on International Women's Day

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Gender 9 March 2018
Revolutionary anniversaries across MENA marked with repression: February round-up

‎ Joey Ayoub for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks 5 March 2018
MENA governments bent on shutting down political expression

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights Attacks Censorship 3 February 2018
Life after sentencing for MENA's political detainees

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 31 December 2017
How to stay safe while covering protests over Trump's Jerusalem announcement

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

International Middle East & North Africa Attacks 12 December 2017
ARTICLE 19 partners with Grindr to improve protection of LGBTQ+ users in MENA

‎ ARTICLE 19

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights Attacks Gender 5 December 2017
Unapologetic crackdowns on dissent as greater instability rocks MENA

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Free Expression & the Law 4 December 2017
Nine women from MENA remembered on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Gender 29 November 2017
How repressive Arab regimes are expanding their reach

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Digital Rights 3 November 2017
Attacks, abuses of power & shrinking civic space: September in the MENA region

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Free Expression & the Law 2 October 2017
No August reprieve for journalists and activists in the Middle East and North Africa

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Digital Rights 6 September 2017
Collective response vital to protect civic space in the Middle East and North Africa

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights

Middle East & North Africa 28 August 2017
MENA round-up: Freedom of assembly and freedom of the press hit hardest in July

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Freedom of Assembly 1 August 2017
MENA round-up: A clear return to authoritarian tactics across the region

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights Attacks 2 July 2017
Statement of Solidarity in Support of MENA HRDs for IFEX25

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Vigilance pour la Démocratie et l’État Civique

Middle East & North Africa 30 June 2017
Emboldened regimes: Crushing Middle East dissent

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Attacks Digital Rights 4 June 2017
The Middle East's unusual suspects: MENA round-up

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa 14 October 2016
New report maps legal threats to free expression in the Arab world

‎ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights 29 April 2016
Women of the Middle East: The region's bravest activists behind bars

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

Middle East & North Africa Gender 8 March 2016
News website Al-Araby al-Jadeed blocked in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and UAE

‎ International Federation of Journalists

Middle East & North Africa 7 January 2016
Resisting oblivion: Prisoners of conscience across the Arab world

‎ Maharat Foundation, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Middle East & North Africa Free Expression & the Law 4 May 2015
Cyberspace: Once a haven for free expression, now a battlefield

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights 15 April 2015
Reward or punishment? What being an online influencer in the Gulf can get you

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights 18 March 2015
In the name of national security

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Impunity Middle East & North Africa 10 December 2014
ISIS militants call for death of Kuwaiti cartoonist

‎ Cartoonists Rights Network International

Kuwait Middle East & North Africa Attacks Free Expression & the Law 15 July 2014
LGBTQ communities in the Arab world face unique digital threats

‎ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Middle East & North Africa Digital Rights 24 April 2014

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Audacity in Adversity: LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa

Despite state-sponsored repression and social stigma, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Middle East and North Africa are finding ways to speak out. They are telling their stories, building alliances, networking across borders, developing national and regional movements, and finding creative ways to combat homophobia and transphobia.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) 2 May 2018
Audacity in Adversity: LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa

Despite state-sponsored repression and social stigma, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Middle East and North Africa are finding ways to speak out. They are telling their stories, building alliances, networking across borders, developing national and regional movements, and finding creative ways to combat homophobia and transphobia.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) 16 April 2018
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