[governance] Syria

Thu Sep 8 15:52:52 EDT 2011

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]

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.

I will also direct this to the IBA Human Rights Institute to get some
traction.

Best,
Sala

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin> <
admin at alkasir.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Sala
>>
>> " Perfect Stillness in the midst of the noise".
>>
>>
>

-- 
Sala

" Perfect Stillness in the midst of the noise".
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