ANHRI declares that today the court of appeal in Dokki, Giza has finally settled the case fabricated by Abd Al-Fattah Mourad , accusing Alaa , Manal and Gamal Eid, lawyer and ANHRI executive of insult and libel, in vengeance for revealing his stealing of ANHRI report about freedom of using the internet in the Arab world, and publishing ANHRI material in a book he claimed of his own. Court of appeal upheld the acquittal ruling on 31\12\2008 and rejected the prosecution appeal and the civil case.

submission receipt of all his confiscated belongings for censorship inspection, which Wael did not sign. Moreover, his luggage was lost after such a long detention. Hamdy Al- Assiuoty , law unit counselor at ANHRI, declared that these provocative actions of the Egyptian state security investigation service towards human rights activists upon their departure or arrival are totally illegal.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that State Security police insists on violating the right to privacy, and is keen to spy on Internet users in Egypt, searching for individuals who exercise their right to express their political views online peacefully.

The Supreme Administrative Court in Cairo decided today to postpone the case filed by Judge Abdul Fattah Murad to the session in July 4. the decision comes at the request of lawyers of the Ministry of Communications asking for time to comment on the memorandum of Abdul Fattah Murad,

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Mosawah Association for Human Rights in Port Said expressed their strong condemnation over the unjust rule issued today by the al-Zohour Court of Appeal in Port Said, which upheld the decision issued on January 20, 2009, to sentence Tamer Mabrouk, owner of the blog "The Egyptian truth- http:/ / elhakika.blogspot.

Arab human rights organizations signatories to this statement expressed their deep disturbance and concern over the persistence of the Yemeni Ministry of Information to launch its hostile campaign against press freedom and freedom of expression, and confiscating (al-Quds al-Arabi) newspaper for a period of four consecutive days. Since last April

The Arabic Network for Human Rights (ANHRI), organized a symposium on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 entitled "pornography websites between rejection and support". The parliamentary Mohamed Khalil Quetta, Mr. Nizar Ghurab, the lawyer who has filed a case to block the porn websites, and Mr. Ashraf Baroudi the Judge in the Court of Appeal of Alexandria, have participated in the symposium. Mr. Abdul Jalil Elcharnoubi

On the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Yemen Unity Day, Egyptian human rights organizations urged Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to order the Ministry of Information to stop the siege imposed on Yemeni newspapers and remove the ban on Yemeni blocked websites.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the ruling issued by the Administrative Judicial Court on Tuesday, May 12 compelling the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to ban pornographic websites is characterized by its general terms, since it did not specify the particular meaning of pornographic websites, and even worse, the danger of granting the authority to block to officials of the Ministry of Communication, will necessarily result in the expansion of the policy of blocking and control under the context that these web sites are "pornographic or obscene", which severely threatens the freedom to use the Internet in Egypt.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information expressed today that it is deeply disturbed by the continuity of practices hostile to press freedom in Yemen, which resulted in the arrest of the journalist and internet activist "Yahya Bamahfouz", manager of the web site "Hadhramawt boards", moreover, some security men opened fire on journalist, "Saleh Khamis bin Mehanna" in the same city.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) declares its being disturbed by the persistence of hostility shown by the Bahraini Minister of Culture and Information Mai Al-Khalifa against freedom to use the Internet in Bahrain. This hostility began just after her taking the office at the end of 2008 and became really

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) strongly condemned the rising police action taken by the Yemeni authorities against several independent newspapers and journalists. The last action was confiscating seven newspapers in two days, and the arrest of the journalist Fuad Rashid, the owner and publisher of www.mukallapress.com. The confiscation orders came after coverage on the protests in the southern parts of Yemen and criticism of the way the Yemeni government responded to the problems in the South were published.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information asserted today that it will not back down from its legal demand of an investigation with the State Security officers who abducted the Internet activist "Ahmed Mohamed Alaa El Din", on April 7, 2009, who was released Monday evening on April 27 three weeks after kidnapping.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expressed its strong condemnation and dismay at the continued detention since October 3rd 2008 of the Christian blogger, Hani Nazeer, by State Security. His arrest occurred with the collaboration of the Church in Naga Hammadi, his hometown in Qena Governorate.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the Saudi Ministry of Interior has imposed severe restrictions on the Saudi Internet Cafes, requiring owners of Internet Cafes to install censorship secret cameras inside cyber cafes, to register users names and identity numbers,