<p dir="ltr">Dear Nick,</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is you and others who supported us whom I wish to thank. We need all the support we could get to address this on slaughter of Internet freedom in Yemen.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sincerely,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Walid Al-Saqaf</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 27, 2015 3:11 PM, "Nick Ashton-Hart" <<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro">nashton@consensus.pro</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Walid,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for sharing this - I am sure that everyone else here is greatly worried by the troubles facing your country. I will be happy to disseminate this and if you can think of anything else that the Internet policy community can do to help, please ask.</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 27 Mar 2015, at 12:06, Walid Al-Saqaf <<a href="mailto:admin@alkasir.com" target="_blank">admin@alkasir.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>/*** Apologies for cross-posting ***/</div><div><br></div>Dear friends and colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Those of you who followed the news lately may have heard about the intensifying conflict in Yemen, which has led to the blocking of of many news and dissident websites. </div><div><br></div><div>Here's a story reflecting some of what happened:</div><div><a href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/anti-houthi-websites-blocked-yemen-674404" target="_blank">http://www.albawaba.com/news/anti-houthi-websites-blocked-yemen-674404</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is unprecedented and unacceptable. It obliged us as ISOC-Yemen to formally launch a campaign starting with the below statement (both in English and Arabic), which is to be widely circulated and published on our Facebook page here:</div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/isoc.ye/photos/a.366179743512967.1073741827.183351058462504/641852185945720/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/isoc.ye/photos/a.366179743512967.1073741827.183351058462504/641852185945720/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'd appreciate your support by sharing, liking, commenting or take any other actions you can to help our campaign. You can also re-publish the text freely on your platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>Our intention is to stress that Internet access should not tampered with by those involved in the conflict because it severely affects the confidence of end-users in the Internet as a whole and their ability to use it effectively.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your support during those very difficult times in Yemen.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Walid Al-Saqaf</div><div>Chair, ISOC-Yemen</div><div><br></div>
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