March 25th, 2012 03:02
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New submitter politkal excerpts from a report at Reuters:
“A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show. The system was part of a 98.6 million euro ($130.6 million) contract for networking equipment supplied by Shenzhen, China-based ZTE Corp to the Telecommunication Co of Iran (TCI), according to the documents. Government-controlled TCI has a near monopoly on Iran’s landline telephone services and much of Iran’s internet traffic is required to flow through its network. … Human rights groups say they have documented numerous cases in which the Iranian government tracked down and arrested critics by monitoring their telephone calls or internet activities. Iran this month set up a Supreme Council of Cyberspace, headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said it would protect ‘against internet evils,’ according to Iranian state television.”Source: Chinese Firm Helps Iran Spy On Citizens
Categories: slashdot Tags: chinese telecommunications, equipment, firm, human rights groups, Internet, Iran, landline, mahmoud ahmadinejad, president mahmoud ahmadinejad, Shenzhen, shenzhen china, system
February 19th, 2012 02:19
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First time accepted submitter debiangruven writes
“Human rights Groups are making one final plea to save the life of Canadian programmer, Saeed Malekpour, who was sentenced to death for writing a program to upload photos to the Internet. From the article: ‘Malekpour’s supporters have created Facebook pages and websites in his support dating to at least 2009. Amnesty International has requested on its website that concerned individuals write Iranian authorities inside and outside the country to demand that Malekpour not be executed.”Source: Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran
Categories: slashdot Tags: amnesty international, debiangruven, final plea, human, human rights groups, Iran, iranian authorities, programmer, Saeed Malekpour, submitter, time
February 12th, 2012 02:32
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New submitter cosmicaug writes with an update to yesterday’s report that journalist Hamza Kashgari had been arrested by Malaysian police acting on a
request conveyed from the Saudi government via Interpol. Now, says the BBC,
“Police confirmed to the BBC that Hamza Kashgari was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday despite protests from human rights groups. Mr Kashgari’s controversial tweet last week sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. Insulting the prophet is considered blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Mr Kashgari, 23, fled Saudi Arabia last week and was detained upon his arrival in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.” Writes cosmicaug: “Sadly, the most likely outcome is that they are going to execute this man for three tweets.”
Source: Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia
Categories: slashdot Tags: BBC, cosmicaug, Hamza, human rights groups, Kuala Lumpur, malaysian police, Mr Kashgari, police, Saudi Arabia, saudi government, tweets, week
July 1st, 2011 07:35
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jjp9999 writes
“Despite years of pressure from the Chinese regime, independent television station NTD TV will resume its broadcast throughout China with a Taiwanese satellite. Chinese residents throughout the mainland can receive the broadcast using satellite dishes (which are illegal) and get a glimpse of the world beyond the Great Firewall. Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) satellite provider fought the ruling tooth and nail, yet folded under pressure from the Taiwanese premier, the vice president of European Parliament, human rights groups, and other international bodies. A similar case took place when French satellite company Eutelsat cut NTD TV’s broadcast into China just short of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Although they said the outage was due to technical problems, an investigation by Reporters Without Borders caught Eutelsat employees red handed, recording admissions they cut the service due to pressure from the Chinese communist regime.”
Source: Chinese Censorship Gets Blasted By NTD TV
Categories: slashdot Tags: 2008 beijing olympics, Beijing, Borders, broadcast, China, chinese censorship, chinese communist regime, chunghwa telecom, human rights groups, NTD, pressure, regime, satellite, Taiwan
August 11th, 2010 08:16
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krou writes “Coming on the back of human rights groups criticising Wikileaks, American officials are saying that the Obama administration is pressuring allies such as Australia, Britain, and Germany to open criminal investigations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and to try limit his ability to travel. ‘It’s not just our troops that are put in jeopardy by this leaking. It’s U.K. troops, it’s German troops, it’s Australian troops—all of the NATO troops and foreign forces working together in Afghanistan,’ said one American diplomatic official, who added that other governments should ‘review whether the actions of WikiLeaks could constitute crimes under their own national-security laws.’”
Source: Obama Wants Allies To Go After Wikileaks
Categories: slashdot Tags: administration, Afghanistan, Australia, back, Britain, censorship, criminal investigations, german troops, Germany, human rights groups, Julian Assange, krou, nato troops, Obama, privacy, secrecy, U.K., Wikileaks, yro
August 9th, 2010 08:46
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e065c8515d206cb0e190 writes “Several human rights organizations contacted WikiLeaks and pressed them to do a better job at hiding information that endangers civilians within their leaked documents. From the article: ‘The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents’ publication. … An [Amnesty International] official replied to say that while the group has limited resources, it wouldn’t rule out the idea of helping, according to people familiar with the reply. The official suggested that Mr. Assange and the human-rights groups hold a conference call to discuss the matter.’”
Source: Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks
Categories: slashdot Tags: censorship, Communications, Exchange, human rights groups, human rights organizations, Job, Julian Assange, letter, massive task, Mr. Assange, natural allies, official, USA, Wikileaks, yro