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CRIME Issue #52 - June 30, 2009 - العربية فارسي
- "Nokia: Jailing People"- 4,000 Join Boycott
- WANTED: Moments of Silence for Iranian Students
- Judicial Hit-Job: Mauritanian Cyber Journalist Jailed
- Quiz: Why did Mia Farrow, Richard Branson, and Congressman Don Payne all stop eating recently?
CRIME Issue #51 - June 16, 2009 - العربية
- @Revolution- A Page from Khomeini's Playbook
- Watching Obama in Cairo
- WANTED by Kuwaitis...Finally: Rola Dashti Profile
- Dangerous Music: Singing Senator's CDs Seized
- Quiz: What event were women in Saudi Arabia recently banned from?
CRIME Issue #50 - June 2, 2009 - العربية
- R.I.P. Fathi Eljahmi
- WANTED to Remain Anonymous No More: Mariam Bazeed
- The Dissidents Left Behind: Roxana Saberi Speaks Out
- Quiz: What government just censored itself?
CRIME Issue #49 - May 19, 2009 - العربية
CRIME Issue #48 - May 5, 2009 - العربية
- From Virtual to Real World: Taking Action for Freedom
- Off the Record: First Ever Saudi Fashion Show
- Caught on Camera: UAE Sheikh's Torture Tape
- Quiz: Prosecuting journalists in foreign countries?
CRIME Issue #47 - April 21, 2009 - العربية
- Did Nokia Enable Iranian Anti-Dissident Wiretaps?
- Wanted for "Defaming the Leader of the Revolution"
- Why the Fizzle?: Assessing Egypt’s April 6 Anniversary
- Quiz: Hundreds excluded from the vote for president?
CRIME Issue #46 - April 7, 2009 - العربية
- "Studies or Death!": Dying to Get to School in Tunisia
- Unlicensed Attire: Saudi Protest for the Right to Drive
- UAE Officials Target the "Fourth Sex"
- Quiz: Which illustrator was hauled into court in Cairo?
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CRIME Issue #45 - March 24, 2009 - العربية
- End Pilgrimage Gender Discrimination: Blogger’s Plea
- Iranian Youth Gone Wild – For a Night
- WANTED for Running News Site: Hanevy Ould Dahah
- Quiz: Delivering bread to the elderly gets jail time?
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CRIME Issue #44 - March 10, 2009 - العربية
- Upholding Slavery? Yemeni Activists Put Judge on Trial
- Hunger Strike: Tensions Spike in Bahrain
- WANTED for Exposing Injustices: Nicholas McGeehan
- Quiz: Pre-emptive ban on a feminist organization?
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CRIME Issue #43 - February 24, 2009 - العربية
- Disposable Workforce: Emirates Sends Workers Packing
- Hunger Strike: Tensions Spike in Bahrain
- WANTED for War Crimes: Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir?
- Quiz: Mock weddings on Valentine’s Day?
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CRIME Issue #42 - February 10, 2009 - العربية
- Tunis Radio Defiant after Shutdown
- Detention: Lock up the Students… and the Teachers
- Wanted: Ammar Abdulhamid
- Quiz: Sentenced to jail - after being pardoned?
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CRIME Issue #41 - January 27, 2009 - العربية
- WANTED for Revealing Secrets: Author Azar Nafisi
- Slaves No More: Struggles of the Newly Free
- Last Chance: Essay Contest Ends Saturday
- Quiz: Who fears the Google translator?
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CRIME Issue #40 - January 13, 2009 - العربية
- Celebrating MLK’s 80th with a Comic Book on Activism
- WANTED For Investigative Journalism: Benchemsi
- Giving up on Reform? An Essay Writer’s Guide
- QUIZ: Who recently had her home surrounded?
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CRIME Issue #38 - December 16, 2008 - العربية
- Film Fest in Fayoum: Celebrating Human Rights
- Runway Revolutionaries: Underground Iranian Couture
- Eid al-Adha: Celebrating the Sanctity of Life
- Quiz: Which Essay Contest winner was on Oprah?
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CRIME Issue #37 - December 2, 2008 - العربية
- First-Ever Cairo Human Rights Film Festival
- World AIDS Day: The Struggle for Equal Treatment
- WANTED for Defending Human Rights: Wayne Smith
- Quiz: Blogger-spy in Iran?
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CRIME Issue #36 - November 18, 2008 - العربية
- Free at Last? Esha Momeni's Provisional Release
- Maskati Trial Update: The Case Goes Criminal
- Hungry for Reform: Saudi Activists Go on Strike
- Quiz: Where else was a hunger strike held?
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CRIME Issue #35 - November 4, 2008 - العربية
- Essay Contest Re-Launches with $10,000 in Prizes
- Campaign for Student Jailed in Tehran Gains Traction
- Election Update… on the Middle East
- Quiz: Which blogger has served half of his prison term?
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CRIME Issue #34 - October 23, 2008 - العربية
- Campaign for American student arrested in Iran
- Tunisian Activists Challenge Censorship
- WANTED: For Standing up for Women's Rights
- Quiz: When a sermon gets you arrested
CRIME Issue #33 - October 7, 2008 - العربية
- Journalist Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani Released from Prison
- Art under Fire: Film Festival Spotlights Censorship
- Tech Company Pulls the Plug on Morocco
- Quiz: When do Iran’s translators remain silent?
CRIME Issue #32 - September 23, 2008 - العربية
- Grassroots Campaign Helps Frees Moroccan Blogger
- Yemeni Comedian Chooses Jail over Submission
- WANTED for Challenging Censorship: Ethan Zuckerman
- Quiz: Where do you go to jail for not displaying a photo?
CRIME Issue #31 - September 9, 2008 - العربية
- Final Act?: Iranian Actress Detained for Appearing with DiCaprio
- Solitary: Blogger Kareem Amer's Prison Treatment Worsens
- Outsourcing Censorship: Doing Dubai's Dirty Work
- QUIZ: Which Arab democracy just got sabotaged?
CRIME Issue #30 - August 26, 2008 - العربية
- TABOO TERM PAPERS: Your Back-to-School Assignment
- BAD CHEMISTRY: 950 Lashes Likely for Academic Advisor and Student
- Ministry of Errors: Iranian Paper Banned for Revealing Minister's Fake Diploma
- QUIZ: Where does asking a question during a campus lecture lead to detainment?
CRIME Issue #29 - August 12, 2008 - العربية
- "Domestic" Violence: Maid Abuse in the Gulf Continues
- Native Son?: Pop Star Denied Lebanese Citizenship
- Wanted for Free Speech: Ali Abdulemam profiled
- QUIZ: Where is walking your dog a crime?
CRIME Issue #28 - July 29, 2008 - العربية
- Saudi and Emerati Females Athletes Banned at the Games
- Essay Contest Finalist Stays Underground
- Yemen’s New Vice Squads
- QUIZ: Saudi Arabia with "No Reservations"?
CRIME Issue #27 - July 15, 2008 - العربية
- No Comic Relief: Yemeni Jailed for Presidential Imitation
- $10,000 Reward: Essay Contest Winners
- Net Gain: Cyber Activists Hold Anti-Censorship Summit
- QUIZ: Egypt's Mysterious New Newspaper
CRIME Issue #26 - July 1, 2008 - العربية
- Essay Contest Winners to be Announced Soon
- L'Affaire Maskati, Part II: Trial Date Set
- Algerian Rapper Takes on Censorship
- QUIZ: Jailed Yemeni Journalist's Unlikely Allies
CRIME Issue #25 - June 17, 2008 - العربية
- 6 Years Hard Labor for Yemeni Journalist al-Khaiwani
- Egypt Bans Book by Ex-Policeman on Police Brutality
- Syrians Skirt Web Blockade on Facebook
- QUIZ: What's keeping couples from hitting the beach in Iran this summer?
CRIME Issue #24 - June 3, 2008 - العربية
- Hundreds Rally for Yemeni Editor Facing Death Penalty
- Virtual Sit-in at Tunisian Presidential Palace
- Light in Darkness: In Memory of Hadeel Alhodaif
- QUIZ: The Iowa town of Elkader is named after which legendary Middle Eastern leader?
CRIME Issue #23 - May 20, 2008 - العربية
CRIME Report Special Edition
*End-of-Semester Final Exam*
CRIME Issue #22 - May 6, 2008 - العربية
- Fouad Freed: Godfather of Saudi Blogging Returns Home
- Back to Jail for Leading Yemeni Journalist?
- Mauritanians Hold Groundbreaking Rally against Bigotry
- QUIZ: What Didn't Happen Yesterday in Egypt?
CRIME Issue #21 - April 22, 2008 - العربية
- Opening Doors: HAMSA’s Nonviolence Seminar
- Damascus Declaration Crackdown
- Gimme Shelter: A Profile of Dubai’s Surrogate Mother
- Why aren't Iranians flocking to see Santouri?
CRIME Issue #20 - April 8, 2008 - العربية
- The Essays Are In!
- Empty Classrooms: What is Happening in Egypt?
- Students Rock for Iranian Civil Rights
- Quiz: What shocking event just took place in Riyadh?
CRIME Issue #19 - March 25, 2008 - العربية
- $10,000 for Dreams: Essay Contest Deadline Looms
- Reading MLK in Cairo: New Comic Book Edition
- Jailed Blogger's Child: “When Will You Come Home?”
- QUIZ: What illegal act is this woman doing on YouTube?
CRIME Issue #18 - March 11, 2008 - العربية
- Lady Justice: Female Judges Challenge Glass Ceiling
- Red Carded: Booting Women out of Iran's Stadiums
- No Exit: The Struggle for Freedom of Movement
- QUIZ: How do women rise up in Tehran City Hall
CRIME Issue #17 - February 26, 2008 - العربية
- The Head-Less Mannequins of Sharjah
- Enduring Bondage: When Will Slavery End in Mauritania?
- Tunisian Comedian Jailed for Imitating President
- Quiz: Worse than imitating the president?
CRIME Issue #16 - February 12, 2008 - العربية
- Can’t Buy Me Love: Valentine's Day Banned in Saudi
- Civil Rights Activists Brief Congress
- Free Fouad! Protest at Saudi Embassy
- QUIZ: Where can you get nonviolent training?
CRIME Issue #15 - January 29, 2008 - العربية
- Dream Deferred: 2008 Essay Contest Launched
- Look out! Moroccan Civil Leaders Take a Stand
- Disappeared: Lost in Libya’s Prison System
- QUIZ: She Drives Me Crazy
CRIME Issue #14 - January 16, 2008 - العربية
- Before the Judge: A Pre-Trial Interview with Al-Maskati
- One Month in Jail: Update on Fouad Al-Farhan
- Persepolis: Iranian Rebel Hits the Big Screen
- QUIZ: An Egyptian Judge in Bahrain
CRIME Issue #13 - January 2, 2008 - العربية
- Godfather of Saudi Blogging Arrested
- New Guide to Nonviolent Activism
- Eid Al-Adha Special: The Sanctity of Human Life
- QUIZ: Stop the Presses!
CRIME Issue #12 - December 19, 2007 - العربية
- Special Report: A Visit to Kareem in Prison
- Banned at the Book Fair: The Jailhouses of Algiers
- Stopping the Buses: Tehran’s Bus Driver Strike
- QUIZ: You Can’t Say That on Television
CRIME Issue #11 - December 5, 2007 - العربية
- Un-Bearable: The Campaign to Free Gillian Gibbons
- L' Affaire Al-Maskati: Crackdown on Bahraini Activist
- Watchdog: New Jersey Woman Shakes up Yemen
- Quiz: Final Exams
CRIME Issue #10 - November 20, 2007 - العربية
- Mauritania’s First-Ever Slavery Prosecution
- Police Tortures Brought to Justice in Egypt
- Banned in Bahrain: No “Kingdom” Come
- Quiz: Twenty-Year Anniversary
CRIME Issue #9 - November 6, 2007 - العربية
- Worldwide Support for Jailed Egyptian Blogger
- Judgment Day Looms for Ahmed Benchemsi
- Abbou Update: Free from Jail… but Not Free to Travel
- QUIZ: Who's Afraid of Google Earth?
CRIME Issue #8 - October 23, 2007 - العربية
- Torn Apart: Can Saudi Reforms Reunite This Family?
- Saudi Women Accelerate Push for Driving Rights
- Caught on Tape: Reformer’s Mother Expresses Outrage
- QUIZ: The Name Game
CRIME Issue #7 - October 10, 2007 - العربية
- Columbia Student Organizes Rally for Egyptian Blogger
- Going Underground: Struggle for Rock N’ Roll in Iran
- Guest Worker Blues: Dubai’s Disenfranchised Majority
- QUIZ: The Fashion Police Strike Again
CRIME Issue #6 - September 26, 2007 - العربية
- After 105 Days in Jail...Homecoming
- Imazighen in Libya: No-Names No More
- Lebanese Mothers: What They Can’t Pass On
- Getting Carded: Egyptian Patrons Required to Show ID
- QUIZ: The Name Game
CRIME Issue #5 - September 11, 2007 - العربية
- Woman Warrior: Dalia Ziada on AIC's New Cairo Office
- Hacked: Baha’i Rights Struggle Goes Cyber
- Getting Personal: Stories of Civil Rights Repression
- Mubarak Rumors: Wondering What Comes Next
- QUIZ: Emergency Law
CRIME Issue #4 - August 28, 2007 - العربية
- Facebook Faces Censorship in Iran
- Student Activists Plan Solidarity Network
- Campus Do’s and Don’ts: Student Life in Syria
- Tunisian Blogger Challenges School Ban
- QUIZ: Haleh Released from Tehran’s Evin Prison
CRIME Issue #3 - August 14, 2007 - العربية
- HAMSA Updates a 1958 Bus Boycott Comic Book
- Jailed Blogger Writes; Leaders Appeal for His Release
- Young Jordanian Mobilizes to Stop “Honor Killings"
- Breaking Alert: Essay Contest Judge Faces Jail
- QUIZ: What do you know about the Bus Boycott?
CRIME Issue #2 - July 31, 2007 - العربية
- “Dream Deferred” Essay Contest Winners
- Girls Gone Wild: A Review of Girls of Riyadh
- Interview with Abbou: Jailed for Criticizing Jails
- Essay Winner Spotlight: Cartoon Blogger
- QUIZ: Something is Phony in Yemen
CRIME Issue #1 - July 17, 2007 - العربية
- Congress Investigates Plight of Jailed Blogger
- Fashion Police, Tehran-Style
- Yemeni Journalist Silenced Again
- “Dream Deferred” Essay Contest Update
- QUIZ: Khatami's Crime?
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About The CRIME REPORT
The C.R.I.M.E. Report is a bi-weekly e-newsletter published by the HAMSA initiative of the American Islamic Congress. HAMSA supports the struggle for individual rights in the Middle East and aims to connect activists around the world.
CRIME stands for “Civil Rights in the Middle East,” a reminder that advocating for basic rights sometimes lands Middle Easterners in jail. As a briefing on alleged “crimes,” the newsletter spotlights the setbacks and successes of the region’s expanding civil rights movement.
The Report addresses two often-overlooked aspects of reform. (1) Civil rights - not democracy: Individual rights must be guaranteed for all people; otherwise, elections can simply enshrine repressive regimes. (2) Grassroots efforts - not foreign policy: As members of an open society, Americans are working outside of government to partner with Middle Eastern activists.
The C.R.I.M.E. Report does not cover geo-political hot topics like the Iraq War, the Arab-Israeli-Iranian conflict, and theological debates. Such issues receive extensive coverage, and people who disagree over them can still unite to support civil rights reformers.
We welcome reader feedback and hope the newsletter sparks readers’ activist spirit. Ultimately, our goal is to make you a “Partner in CRIME” – an engaged participant rather than a mere bystander to civil rights history in the making.
© 2007 Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance