Monday
23May2005
Request on web censorship
Issandr El Amrani
The website of the Muslim Brotherhood, www.ikhwanonline.net, seems to have been blocked by the Egyptian authorities. (I have asked a friend in London and it works fine there, but it also seems blocked in the UAE.)
Does anyone reading this know how frequently Egypt blocks access to websites? To my knowledge, very few sites get blocked (the Brotherhood site was blocked last year, but only for a month or so). Is that correct? I'd appreciate any feedback by informed people.
Does anyone reading this know how frequently Egypt blocks access to websites? To my knowledge, very few sites get blocked (the Brotherhood site was blocked last year, but only for a month or so). Is that correct? I'd appreciate any feedback by informed people.
Reader Comments (10)
It's working on my provided. I'm in cairo.
A quick and easy way to bypass any blocks is to use https://proxify.com/
I think they're changing servers, trying on different machines gives different IP addresses.
Ikhwan Online blocked??
Arabist reports that ikhwan online might be blocked in Egypt.
this is not the firs
scratch that I mispelled the domain or something, I think its ikhwanonline.com and not .net
anyway confirmed it is blocked by at least 3 isps, I'm collecting info http://www.manalaa.net/ikhwan_online_blocked" rel="nofollow">here
This works from Cairo:
http://ikhwanonline.org.previewyoursite.com/poxy/index.php?url=uggc%2Fjjj.vxujnabayvar.pbz&flags=00110
Thanks to all the people who responded. It is reachable through proxy and my guess is that once the webmaster changes the IP address of the site, it will be once again be available. Interesting that they chose this time of massive crackdowns to close it down. It also does not bode well for internet freedom in Egypt, which thus far had been far more relaxed than other Arab countries.
By the way, when I viewed the site through proxify.com, the top of the page was cover in sex and porn ads. Quite funny when juxtaposed with the Muslim Brotherhood page!
Kefaya's website seems to be down too.
is there an english version of the MB webpage? i desperately need to read it but my knowledge of arabic is still poor to do it: (
www.ikhwanweb.com
www.ikhwanmonitor.com