The Arab Network for Digital Media and Human Rights monitors the development in the Arab Spring countries

 The Arab Network for Digital Media and human rights welcomed the convening of the National Dialogue in Egypt and the positive developments taking place in the file of human rights and freedom of opinion and expression and the expansion of lists for the release of prisoners, including journalists, and the state’s response to the demands of the National Council for Human Rights, in cooperation with the Presidential Pardon Committee to continue issuing successive lists for the imprisoned

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 Edited by | Salmad GHazy - Mike Sweeden

Human Rights News section 

2 June 2023-

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     TheArab Network for Digital Media and human rights published the second annual report in the Arab Spring countries, during a conference in the presence of the President of the Arab Union for Human Rights, Issa El-Araby, the President of the Arab-European Forum for Dialogue and Human Rights in Geneva, Ayman Nasri, and the journalist writer Ayman Abdel-Meguid, a member of the Journalists Syndicate, recommended the need to work international law to create a comprehensive legal framework for digital rights and the protection of individual data; Dealing with these issues still needs more efforts to develop and improve dealing with threats and crimes through cyberspace, especially in cross-border crimes.

Mahmoud Bassiouni, Head of the Arab Network for Digital Media and Human Rights, reviewed the most important recommendations of the report, stressing that hate speech is one of the most serious human rights violations that Arab societies are exposed to, and there is a need to adopt national programs to combat hate speech and discrimination in school curricula and commitment in the media. To ensure social peace.

Bassiouni said that the report included monitoring of the state of digital rights in the countries of Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, indicating that the right to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of the press still suffer from legislative and societal restrictions that escalated with the advent of digital technologies, and the threat they pose to rights. digital citizens and the widening scope of cyber-attacks targeting sectors providing basic services to people
Bassiouni added that the report seeks to widen the circle of public discussion about digital rights, especially in light of the escalation in cybercrime, the control of technology companies over the personal data of their users and their use without the permission of their owners, and the widening scope of bullying and extortion crimes on cyberspace, which threatens that space to turn it into a place Not safe for women.

The report called for the need to pay attention to raising awareness among media professionals through the application of media codes of honor and support for civil society in monitoring and tracking hate speech through social media and the media that threaten the cohesion of societies, and stressed the importance of conducting more digital rights awareness programs by activating media roles And the digital platforms of human rights organizations for all groups of users of cyberspace, especially media professionals, in order to spread the culture of digital human rights, to provide the necessary guarantees, to work in a safe environment away from threats, extortion, and tracking, especially in the most inflamed country, and to work to reject bullying and electronic extortion.

The report stresses the importance of working to provide psychological support to victims of extortion and cyberbullying by civil society institutions, in order to allow them to reintegrate back into their social environment, and to come up with a more systematic map of the challenges faced by human rights defenders and journalists. work to develop the capacities of civil society actors for self-protection; Improve dialogue with electronic communications companies and conduct more training to ensure the provision of electronic self-protection to individuals and journalists.

The report called on states to assume their historical responsibility to intervene to stop the bleeding of the organized and barbaric attack on journalists and media outlets, given that states cannot be built without professional media serving the public interest, and considering that electronic militias have become the real threat to freedom of the press, opinion and expression, and that they affect On the human right to obtain correct information, pointing to the importance of strengthening the protection of freedom of expression and the press through legislative initiatives that are formulated in a participatory manner that take into account the obligations of states to protect journalists and freedom of the press, cancel the legal chapters hostile to freedom of expression, remove all obstacles that prevent the journalist from accessing information, and provide him with legal protection during perform his duties.

 

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