· August, 2009

Stories about Saudi Arabia from August, 2009

Saudi Arabia blocking Twitter pages of activists

  28 August 2009

Saudi Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has recently blocked access to Twitter accounts of a blogger @Mashi97 and a human rights activist @abualkhair. The move comes after the role Twitter played in the recent post-elections uprising in Iran. Blogger Khaled al-Nasser told AFP that his tweets which included...

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