Internet Censorship

On 15 August 2015, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree ratifying law number 94 for the year 2015: The anti-terrorism law. This law allows the public prosecutor (or the investigations authority), if dealing with a terrorist crime, to order (in a reasoned decree) censoring and recording communications and calls, recording..Read More

On 9 February 2013, Egypt’s administrative court blocked YouTube for a month and blocked all links of the movie insulting the prophet. The ruling said: “this is not freedom of expression. What is being screened represents one of the gravest forms of endangering the country’s interests and social national security”…Read More

Lawyer Muhammad Hamed Salem filed lawsuit number (60693/66) on 18 September 2012 to block YouTube in Egypt, because it screened a movie insulting Prophet Muhammad (according to Salem). Salem contested NTRA’s passive decision not to block YouTube, the links showing the movie, and any other movie that insult Islam.

On 28 May 2011, the administrative court fined former President Hosni Mubarak, former PM Ahmed Nazif, and former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adli EGP 340 million as a compensation to users who were adversely affected by the 28 January decision to cut off the internet and telephone calls. The court..Read More

In conjunction with internet disconnection on Friday 28 January, mobile telephone communications in general were banned. The ban included Mobinil, Vodafone, and Itisalat all over the country. The ban order was given by Habib al-Adli, the minister of interior at that time, after an urgent meeting between the three security..Read More

After the relative success of the 25 January 2011 demonstrations, the Egyptian political forces called for a protest on Friday 28 January (known as the Friday of Anger). The government responded by ordering the internet service providers to disconnect the internet service for all users in Egypt. The ban covered:..Read More

On 27 January 2011, the Egyptian government disabled the mobile telephones SMS service. Nobody was able to send or receive SMSs. The ban lasted until 5 February 2011.

On the next day -26 January 2011- Facebook was blocked for a short period of time.

After calls for demonstrations at Tahrir Square on 25 January 2011 against the violence of the Ministry of Interior, the worsening of the economic conditions, and the curtailment of the freedom of expression, the government of former President Hosni Mubarak blocked Twitter and Bambuser (a video sharing application), after demonstrators..Read More