This is excellent Walid. The material is very helpful. Could you also please find out whether the rule of law exists? [I am assuming it does not]<div><br></div><div>I will go through the links and thank you for taking the time to get this information and thank the Syrian activists on the ground.<br>
<div><br></div><div>I will also direct this to the IBA Human Rights Institute to get some traction. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Sala<br><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@alkasir.com">admin@alkasir.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello Salanieta,<br><br>I sent the questions to an activist in Syria and as you can tell from his answers below, the situation is indeed quite dire. I certainly hope there could be more ways to help them in more than just providing them with tools to bypass censorship to be able to publish graphics and material to expose the awful things happening on the ground there.<br>
<br><u><b>Answers from an anonymous Syrian activist:</b></u><br>(1)There's a threat on every and each person who try to protest or use
the internet for anything related to protesting or revolution in Syria.<br>
The threat may be torture , imprisonment and death in a very bad way.<br><br>(2)They
can help by publishing videos and pictures about the Murders and the
Torture that is caused by as they call them "Assad's Shabeha" Or the
Syrian Army Etc..<br><br>(3)I'm not so sure how the world can help
Syria, as you know the government has forbid all journalist that can get
the news of the Syrian Revolution, That's why people started to use the
mobile camera for live shots and videos of the things that happening in
here.<br><br>(4)Lately so many websites has been released just for
telling news of "Syrian Revolution" , you can check this link for some
news about the Revolution : <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SNN-%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9/215382651806380" target="_blank">شبكة شام الإخبارية</a> in Arabic.<br>
You can also
check Alkasir Database in the Political News Websites Category (See below note) , Lots of
URLs has been reported blocked cause it has a relation to the
Revolution and its news.<br><br>Note: You can open the map of reportedly blocked URLs by alkasir users worldwide and zoom to Syria here: <a href="http://alkasir.com/map" target="_blank">http://alkasir.com/map</a>, or more specifically, you can check those links:<br>
<ul><li>For news and opinion websites: <a href="https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=FREEDOM" target="_blank">https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=FREEDOM</a> </li><li>Human rights websites: <a href="https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=HUMAN_RIGHTS" target="_blank">https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=HUMAN_RIGHTS</a>,
</li><li>Social networking websites: <a href="https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=SOC_NETWORKING" target="_blank">https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=SOC_NETWORKING</a></li></ul><div class="im"><br clear="all">
Sincerely,<br><br>Walid<br><br>
-----------------<br><br>Walid Al-Saqaf<br>Founder & Administrator<br>alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship<br><a href="https://alkasir.com" target="_blank">https://alkasir.com</a><a href="mailto:walid.al-saqaf@oru.se" target="_blank"></a><br>
<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Walid,<div><br></div><div>(1) Are they alright and are their lives threatened and is the threat (torture or imprisonment or death or any/all)?</div>
<div>(2) How can we help?</div><div>(3) How can the world help?</div>
<div>(4)Is there a link where we can read about the history of the conflicts in Syria, so that we can get up to speed?</div><div><br></div><div>My prayers are with them in this time.</div><div><br></div><div>Sala</div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@alkasir.com" target="_blank">admin@alkasir.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
Hello Salanieta,<br><br>I'm not in Syria but I have lots of people in touch with me -anonymously- because they are using a circumvention software I developed to help them overcome web censorship. The situation is extremely dangerous for activists and protestors yet they are pushing forward. It appears that the Internet remains open though fear has been growing particularly as there were reports of phishing sites set up by regime elements to trap some facebook users from Syria. If you have some specific questions, I'd be happy to ask them.<br>
<br clear="all">Sincerely,<br><br>Walid<br><br>-----------------<br><br>Walid Al-Saqaf<br>Founder & Administrator<br>alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship<br><a href="https://alkasir.com" target="_blank">https://alkasir.com</a><a href="mailto:walid.al-saqaf@oru.se" target="_blank"></a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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