2-4-2011

By Elisa Massimino
President and CEO

Published on CNN.com

To be sure, Egyptian authorities punished outspoken dissidents, but that control was exercised offline. As Egyptian human rights lawyer Gamal Eid noted, Egyptian government authorities didn’t bother censoring their critics, they simply beat them up. In a particularly brutal case, last year Egyptian police officers beat a man to death outside an internet café in broad daylight. The regime was cruel but not technologically sophisticated. Read More»

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