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Syria: Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria | Amnesty International
Deads in Custody Amid Popular Protest in Syria – Amnesty International reports on the systematic, relentless and deadly repression of pro-democracy protests in Syria since March 2011, and calls on UNSC to refer situation in Syria to Prosecutor of ICC.
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Pakistan to ban encryption software | World news | The Guardian
20 million Pakistani internet users forced to use government monitored internet. “This is like banning cars because suicide bombers use them.”
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The Last Sighting Of Muammar Gaddafi? – Yahoo!
17 y-o child soldier says he saw #Gaddafi leave Tripoli last Friday in convoy carrying daughter Ayesha. This raises questions about whether Gaddafi was in the convoy that entered Algeria early this week!
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Deep packet inspection takes off in Asia and the Middle East – E & T Magazine
You’re being watched. Never trust your ISP!
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Assad, Going Down – NYTimes.com
Little doubt persists as to whether the Assad regime will fall or not. The situation is more subtle in Syria than it was in Libya for example but the regime has been actively alienating its supporters to the point that it is now virtually isolated and ready to implode. Read this short and sharp analysis from Rami Khouri published today in the NYT.
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The Syrian regime’s attempt to resolve the crisis through a combination of hard security and soft political reform dialogue has totally failed, and has only aggravated the three most critical dynamics that will define its future: its declining legitimacy and credibility with many of its own people; the rising intensity of the open challenge to it from Syrians at home and abroad; and the diplomatic pressures applied by regional and global powers.
Syria is likely — and able — to persist in this mode for months. If the regime could break away from the forces that now pen it in, it might have a chance to orchestrate a gradual change to a more open and liberal system of governance. But the likelihood of that happening is now zero.
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Commotion, le projet d’un Internet hors de tout contrôle – LeMonde.fr
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Cette petite équipe, composée d’informaticiens, de juristes et de sociologues, est en train de réaliser l’utopie suprême des hackers et des militants libertaires du monde entier : un logiciel permettant la création de réseaux sans fil à haut débit 100 % autonomes, qui fonctionneront sur les fréquences Wi-Fi, sans s’appuyer sur aucune infrastructure existante – ni relais téléphonique, ni câble, ni satellite. Ils seront mouvants, horizontaux, entièrement décentralisés et échapperont à toute surveillance, car le trafic sera anonyme et crypté.
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Algeria, Forgotten by Arab Spring, May Rue Taking Qaddafi Family – Businessweek
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“This shows Algeria supports the Qaddafi regime and will widen the rift between the Algerian regime and the people, which is already at an explosive level,” Jeremy Keenan, an Algeria expert at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said in an interview. “Algeria has been unbelievably foolish.”
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Algeria’s actions have alarmed Western powers too. The U.S. is concerned that the Qaddafi family’s travel across the border “isn’t in keeping with travel ban restrictions” under United Nations resolutions, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington.
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When opposition members staged peaceful protests in Algeria in February, the government sent a 10-to-1 ratio “of police into the streets to suppress them,” said James D. Le Sueur, a Libya expert at the University of Nebraska, and author of ‘Algeria since 1989: Between Democracy and Terror.’
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Algeria’s secret service is more powerful than those found in other Arab regimes and more effective, he said
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Half of Algeria’s population is under the age of 27, giving rise to the Independent Youth Movement for Change that briefly drew inspiration from the movements that swept away Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak the following month.
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“If Algeria was really smart, it would hand these people over to the NTC, which would trump their card and it would be a win-win situation,” Keenan said. “But Algeria is better at making enemies than friends.”
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As it is, the success of the rebels contains a tragic defeat. The original emancipatory impulse of February 17 lies, for now, among the corpses of “Africans” in Tripoli.
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حديث الثورة – الموقف الجزائري من الثورة الليبية – YouTube
Algeria’s position raises many questions as this program on Al Jazeera explores.
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New documentary reveals last-minute doubts on Bin Laden raid
Attack could have been called off following last-minute report.
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