Last night at around 11pm local time Egypt's last remaining ISP was taken offline. There are also unconfirmed rumours that mobile network services are to be cut today. The Noor Group ISP served the Egyptian stock exchange and a number of hotels...
As protests in Egypt continue into their seventh day and police return to the streets, at least six journalists were arrested in Cairo earlier today. They were released after about three hours later, amidst unconfirmed reports that the United...
The closure of Egypt’s internet services represents a battle of wills between Mubarak and protesters. Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports
As Egypt enters a seventh day of open revolt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, the country’s internet access continues to be largely shut down. That extended closure is one of the clearest signs that Mubarak still sees this as a fight he...
Index on Censorship is gravely concerned at the loss of life and injury to protesters on the sixth day of the popular uprising in Egypt
The cell phones started working this morning again, although I’m not sure they’ll stay that way. The internet (as of 7pm local time) was still blocked. The fact that one but not the other has been restored perhaps indicates that the government...
The Egyptian government has cut mobile telephone and internet services, Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports on how the information vacuum affected yesterday’s “day of rage”
Inspired by unrest in Egypt and Tunisia, the opposition has staged massive protests demanding President Saleh’s resignation but so far there is no sign of a grass-roots move for change. Iona Craig reports
These striking images from a Tehran production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler caught my eye on the Revolutionary Road Facebook page. Sadly the accompanying statement announced that the play had been shut down by the authorities; the director and cast had...
Read Index on Censorship’s Ashraf Khalil‘s exclusive report from Friday’s anti-government protests in the Egyptian capital