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A young woman in front of a line of riot police during a demonstration against police repression and calling for the release of recently detained protesters, Tunis, Tunisia, 30 January 2021, Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images January 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. Ten years on, the Arab Spring has come full circle with the start of 2021 in the region looking terribly reminiscent of a decade ago when protests erupted in respo...

The social media myth about the Arab Spring Haythem Guesmi © Opposition supporters rest near graffiti referring to social networking site 'Facebook' in Tahrir Sq... Opposition supporters rest near graffiti referring to social networking site 'Facebook' in Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 5, 2011 [File: Reuters/Steve Crisp] In the aftermath of the January 6 right-wing insurrection on Capitol Hill in Washington, the role social media played in these events came into the media spotlight in the United States. For years, fringe ideologues had used online platforms undisturbed ...

Egyptian police arrest cartoonist on 10th anniversary of uprising Al Jazeera English © 'I’m getting arrested,' Hamdi wrote on his Facebook page early on Monday [Courtesy: Egyptoon Youtube... 'I’m getting arrested,' Hamdi wrote on his Facebook page early on Monday [Courtesy: Egyptoon Youtube] Rights groups have called for the immediate release of an Egyptian cartoonist who wrote on Facebook he was being arrested shortly after posting online a video tribute to the country’s 2011 uprising on the 10th anniversary of the first mass demonstrations which overthrew longtime r...

Share this: Translations A mobile phone stacked with many major social media platforms. Photo by Tracy Le Blanc from Pexels, a free photo database. Seventeen human rights organizations from the Middle East and North Africa region issued a joint statement on Thursday to Facebook and Twitter, denouncing social media platforms’ shushing of dissent voices by pulling down their accounts. The letter, in which Global Voices is a signatory, marked the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia and rippled across the region. Over the past decade, activists and peaceful...

Trump will win, the democrats will be embarassed by the fraud that will be revealed. Sidney Powell denounced on Fox she has evidence of a Cyber Pearl Harbor attack. Trump, Giuliani, Powell should be recognized as HEROES. See video Posted on On December 10, 2020 Sidney Powell was interviewed on Fox News and she denounced a "Cyber Pearl Harbor" attack. "They designed and developed the Smartmatic and Dominion programs and machines that included a controller module that allows people to log in and manipulate the vote even as it’s happening. We’re finding more and more evidence of this. We no...