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Category: MoroccoBy Curt on Mar 18, 2008 in Morocco, Fouad Mourtada, Facebook | 3 Comments
Update: RSF also reports that Fouad is free.
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Global Voices asserts that Fouad Mourtada has been released from prison with a “full royal pardon.” If this is true, it’s fantastic news for Fouad. Not great news for free speech or Morocco, though, that it took a royal pardon. Can anyone confirm this?
Mourtada was sentenced to three […]
By Curt on Feb 29, 2008 in Morocco, Fouad Mourtada, Facebook, Censorship | 3 Comments
Subsequent to her conversation with us, Wall Street Journal reporter Vauhini Vara succeeded in getting a response, of sorts, from Facebook. She asked the company whether they had turned over information to the Moroccan security forces on the identity of their former user Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was sentenced to three years in prison for creating […]
By Curt on Feb 26, 2008 in Fouad Mourtada, Morocco, World Tech Podcast, Lebanon, United States, Iran, Syria, Facebook | 9 Comments
Update: Facebook responds. Kind of.
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Update: RSF is trying to find out how Moroccan prosecutors determined Mourtada’s indentity.
Reporters Without Borders wonders how the police identified Mourtada. “Did the police get his computer’s IP address? And if so, how? We have asked the ISP, Maroc Telecom, in which the French company Vivendi is a shareholder, to […]
By Curt on Feb 22, 2008 in Morocco, World Tech Podcast, Fouad Mourtada, Media coverage, Threatened bloggers, Facebook, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments
Click here to listen to The World’s Tech Podcast featuring the Committee to Protect Bloggers.
Clark Boyd, technology reporter for Public Radio International’s radio program The World, interviewed us today for their Tech Podcast. We’ll be checking in regularly with Clark on the podcast to talk about threats to bloggers and threatened bloggers around the world.
This […]
By Curt on Feb 18, 2008 in Morocco, Fouad Mourtada, Facebook | 3 Comments
Update: RSF reports that Fouad has already been sentenced to three years in prison for his satirical Facebook page!
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I’m overwrought today, but I need to make time for this. So, with apologies, I’m just going to rip off Carolyn O’Hara’s post from Passport.
Because you are liable to be arrested, blindfolded, harshly interrogated, spat upon, and […]
