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      Egypt Steps Up Social Media Crackdown on its Citizens with Police Intimidation

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      October 9, 2019
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      Egypt Steps Up Social Media Crackdown on its Citizens with Police Intimidation

      In a bid to curb dissent and online social movements fueling protests against the present government, the Egyptian police have started to randomly stop and search citizens. On official orders, phones and laptops are searched for anti-government posts.

      #Egypt must stop its crackdown on dissent by randomly searching phones and laptops on the street to check if people have been posting critically about #PresidentSisi or shared information about protests. More than 3,000 have been arrested since #protests began on September 20. pic.twitter.com/stW9HI374e

      — L'Association Francophone (@_AFDH_) October 9, 2019

      Protests have been rare in Egypt since Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s takeover in 2013. This is because the new administration has cracked down on dissent in a bid to “stabilize Egypt”. However, following allegations of corruption from a former contractor for the government, Mohammed Ali, there has been online calls for a demonstration against government corruption.

      This has led to protests by hundreds in the country’s capital, Cairo and several other Egyptian cities. As a result, the Egyptian police have turned to rely on conventional tactics to root out protesters.

      There have been reports of the police stopping people as they walk. The social media accounts of victims are checked for posts critical of the president or distributed information on the protests.

      The level of repression keeps reaching new levels in #Egypt After arresting her brother @Alaa (while on probation) the police has arrested @sana2 because she refused to allow them to check her phone. #Egypt https://t.co/XzBRVr4DaA

      — Nuria Tesón (@masteson) October 6, 2019

      Now in Egypt, you get stopped by police in the streets and they go through your phone and check all your social media accounts and all the messages and pictures you might have, and if they find anything remotely ‘political’ in nature you get arrested! #FreeEgypt #Help @ewarren https://t.co/w1O52VWlEg

      — Nameless (@Nameles82062126) September 29, 2019

      According to the Wall Street Journal, citizens aware of the tactics have begun to delete political posts and any incriminating messages from their phones before heading out in Cairo.

      Africa’s censorship problem

      But it’s not just an Egyptian problem. This move is somewhat similar to a common practice by the notorious police unit in Nigeria, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The unit is known to stop young people with laptops and unlawfully arrest, attack or, in extreme circumstances, kidnap them.

      However, while the Egyptian police are carrying out their activities to clampdown on protesters, SARS is known to obtain money from victims under the guise of clamping down on online fraudsters.

      The Arab uprisings revisited in every way. High time for democracies to curb the market of commercially available hacking and #surveillance technologies >> #Egypt Is Using Apps to Track and Target Its Citizens ↘️ https://t.co/f93CrpRmPA

      — Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) October 4, 2019

      The Egyptian government is, however, not stopping at its stop and search tactics to clampdown on protests. According to a cybersecurity firm, Check Point, there have been targeted cyberattacks on Egyptian journalists, academics, lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights activists. Attackers have installed software on the targets’ phones to enable them read the victim’s files and emails as well as identify who they contact and when.

      And since the protests began on September 20, over 3,000 people have been arrested in relation to the protests.

      The moves are, however, not unprecedented. Egypt has a long history of monitoring citizens online. The country instituted a new social media bill last year, one that gives the government authority to suspend or block any personal account which publishes or broadcasts fake news. This includes “anything (information) inciting violating the law, violence or hatred”.

      The country has also blocked websites that supposedly constitute a threat to its national security or economy with a jail term placed in citizens that still go on to visit them.

      Cameroon holds Africa's record for the Longest Internet Shutdown. The Paul Biya regime blocked access to the internet for 40 weeks between January 2017 and June 2018 to suppress criticism and free speech.

      — Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) November 26, 2018

      Such moves are increasingly rampant on the African continent. Over time, there have been clampdowns on social media activities by various governments and some of the moves have either being through absurd bills or a total internet shutdown.

      Although Egypt has not had an internet shutdown under the current administration, at this point, there’s no telling how far the North African country is willing to go.


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