[governance] Syria

Thu Sep 8 09:35:55 EDT 2011

Hello Salanieta,

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.

*Answers from an anonymous Syrian activist:*
(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.
    The threat may be torture , imprisonment and death in a very bad way.

(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..

(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.

(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 : شبكة شام
الإخبارية<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>in
Arabic.
    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.

Note: You can open the map of reportedly blocked URLs by alkasir users
worldwide and zoom to Syria here: http://alkasir.com/map, or more
specifically, you can check those links:

   - For news and opinion websites:
   https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=FREEDOM
   - Human rights websites:
   https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=HUMAN_RIGHTS,
   - Social networking websites:
   https://alkasir.com/doc/map/map.php?genre=SOC_NETWORKING

Sincerely,

Walid

-----------------

Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Walid,
>
> (1) Are they alright and are their lives threatened and is the threat
> (torture or imprisonment or death or any/all)?
> (2) How can we help?
> (3) How can the world help?
> (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?
>
> My prayers are with them in this time.
>
> Sala
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin> <
> admin at alkasir.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Salanieta,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Walid
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Walid Al-Saqaf
>> Founder & Administrator
>> alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
>> https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
>> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Is there anyone on this list from Syria or Iran? It would be interesting
>>> to hear of the situation in Syria from your perspective.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sala
>>>
>>> " Perfect Stillness in the midst of the noise".
>>>
>>>
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>
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