Skyline International for Human Rights (SIHR)

🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS: Our new report, "The Price of a Meal," exposes how aid in Gaza has been weaponized through forced biometric data extraction. We document how the Israel & US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is trading food for facial scans.1/ skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

Join us at #RightsCon for 7amleh’s session: “Surveillance as Warfare: Biometric Control, AI Targeting, and Corporate Complicity” More sessions are coming! stay tuned. 🔗 Register here: rightscon.org/registration/ @accessnow @skylineforhuman

Join us at #RightsCon for 7amleh’s session: “Digital Apartheid and Siege Warfare: How Tech Enables Occupation and Control in Palestine.” More sessions are coming! stay tuned. 🔗 Register here: rightscon.org/registration/ @NadimNashif @skylineforhuman

X has blocked the content of hundreds of users from the UAE upon the request of the authorities. During the war on Iran, Gulf countries warned residents against sharing footage of strikes, citing “public safety”. But was it really about public safety or public image?

#BREAKING |🇰🇼: SIHR welcomes the news that Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been acquitted by a Kuwaiti court, according to his lawyers, and that his release is expected soon. He spent nearly 2 months in prison for sharing footage of a US fighter jet crash. #Journalism is not a crime.

Together with @7amleh and 40+ organizations worldwide, we urge @Meta to stop financially enabling illegal Israeli settlement activity and violent rhetoric against #Palestinians. Read the full letter here⬇️ skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

بيان مشترك: إعدامات السعودية تتجاوز ٢٠٠٠ في عهد الملك سلمان البيان: cutt.ly/9tH85OBw #٢٠٠٠إعدام_بالسعودية @WomenConNG @hopebehindbar @egyptian_front @CIVICUSalliance @PPIREGIONALE @JWMFInc @skylineforhuman @SalamDHR_AR @ACAT_France @ALQST_En @fidh_fr @Sinaifhr @EIPR @ECRF_ORG @bureau_kz @The_Advocates @HRInews @omctorg @IHRights @AssoECPM @HuMENAorg @TJWGSeoul @MENA_Rights @ccl_ua @GulfCentre4HR @CornellLaw @SOHRAmcr @HRSentinels @cpjp_org_au @ColegioSiempre

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3/ In 2025, VPN downloads in the UAE topped 9.6 million. But "digital privacy" comes with a steep cost. Using one to reach blocked content can get you AED 500,000 to AED 2m in fines and prison time. Punished for what you post, punished for what you try to read.

On April 15, hundreds of @X users were geoblocked in the #UAE by order of the Federal Public Prosecution under the 2021 cybercrime law. Journalists, academics, researchers, OSINT monitors & news outlets all disappeared from Emirati feeds. 🧵 skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

On April 13, #Tunisia sentenced lawyer #Sonia_Dahmani to 18 months for speaking about racism & former MP Rached Khiari to 6 months for social media posts. #Tunisia must stop using repressive laws to criminalize speech & jail critics. Our full statement: skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

🇲🇦 #Morocco: Activist Hassan Daoudi has been sentenced to 5 months in prison for Facebook posts calling for peaceful protests against the rising cost of living. Demanding affordable food & housing is not a crime. Read our statement: skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

A platform built by & for our community needs security at its core. We raised user safety concerns with @realUpScrolled for at-risk users in #SWANA. They responded with a data privacy review & a new Trust & Safety channel. Our full take & their response: skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

For years Israel has killed Palestinians with near-total impunity. Now the Knesset has made it law. Execution for Palestinians only. Military courts. No appeal. carried out within 90 days of sentencing. Israelis are fully exempt. Our statement: skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

Israel labeled Palestinian #journalists terrorists on social media before killing them. Tech companies powered the targeting. Platforms erased the evidence. We have submitted our contribution to @FranceskAlbs on the role of media after 7 October 2023. 🔗 skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

Skyline International for Human Rights has submitted its input to @UNHumanRights on the protection of HRDs in the digital age. Surveillance, AI targeting, cybercrime laws, platform failures. All documented across SWANA region. 🔗Read our full submission skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

Filming a drone strike from your window. Forwarding a WhatsApp message. Sharing what you saw. In #Kuwait, #UAE, #Qatar, #Bahrain, #Oman, and #SaudiArabia right now, all of this can land you in prison. Our latest blog breaks it down ⬇️ skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

Bloggers in Dubai use official footage to project a "calm narrative." Our own Dima Samaro tells @thetimes: “These trends... show a curated, state-controlled version of reality... making it impossible to verify the true impact of the crisis on the ground.” thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

#المغرب 🇲🇦: تواجه الصحفية #بشرى_الخونشافي حملة تشويه ممنهجة تقودها حسابات موالية للسلطة على منصات التواصل الاجتماعي. تعتمد هذه الهجمات على التشهير الأخلاقي للنيل من سمعتها واستهداف حياتها الخاصة. نعبر عن تضامننا الكامل مع بشرى. لقراءة البيان ⬇️ skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…

#Morocco🇲🇦: Journalist #Bouchra_El_Khonchafi is facing coordinated smear campaigns led by pro-govt accounts on Facebook & X. These attacks rely on moral defamation to damage her reputation & target her private life. We stand in full solidarity with her. skylineforhuman.org/en/news/detail…