Misdemeanors Court of Azzohour has decided to postpone the hearing of the defamation case filed by “Trust Chemical Inc.” against Tamer Mabrouk the owner of the blog named: “el-Hakika el-Masria” – The Egyptian Truth- http://www.elhakika.blogspot.com – to the 7th of July for the hearing of the Defense Committee of the blogger Tamer Mabrouk.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information "ANHRI.NET" condemned the results of the ministerial council of Arab information ministers that was held in the headquarter of the Arab League yesterday and the day before. The meeting resulted in condensing using the elastic expressions to define the document of satellite channels transmission and push towards applying it and make its words suitable for the internal legislations of every state. This is happening despite they declared that the document is just a "guide".

June 8, 2008 Cairo, Egypt
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information "www.anhri.net" and "Mosawah" Association for Human Rights announce that tomorrow, June 9th 2008, the Azzohour Court of Port Said will review a unique case filed by "Trust Chemicals" Company against Egyptian Internet blogger Tamer Mabrouk the owner of "The Truth Blog” http://elhakika.blogspot.com.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information acknowledges the time & efforts of all the activists and media professionals who participating in the success of the workshop entitled “Mutual Support between Internet & Human Rights”, whether by their attendance, discussions, or preparing the papers that enriched the topic with very helpful thoughts and ideas. Namely, HRInfo is so grateful to all of the following participants

Egypt: Disputes between Ministries of Telecommunications and Culture on internet cafes are settled
Ministry of Telecommunications is entitled to license internet cafes

The arbitrary committee formed by arbitrators from Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Telecommunications entitled the Ministry of Telecommunications to supervise, censor, and control internet cafes in Egypt. In addition, the ministry will be responsible for licensing new internet cafes and, subsequently, allowing its specialized representatives to control these cafes in respect with adherence to legal measures.

The committee formed from ministries of culture and communications has solved the dispute between the two ministries over the net cafes supervision in Egypt. The committee decided that the ministry of communications is the body responsible for issuing licenses for the net cafes; the judicial custody should be granted for the ministry's specialized agents.

The Information Technology Development Authority (ITDA) promised to prevent any specialization overlap that could exist between the Intellectual Property Programming Protection Office in the ITDA and the ministry of culture bodies.

8 August 2006

In a procedure violating press freedom and the right to exchange information, Al-Ahram newspaper, the largest press foundation in the Middle East and North Africa, installed a filter to block websites that the newspaper find unfit fro journalists to browse while on Al-Ahram internal network, which serves nearly 15 thousand staff members, including around 2 thousand journalists.