[LIVEBLOG] تغطية مظاهرات 31 يوليوز - Couverture des manifestations du 31 juillet - #Feb20 #Maroc. Morocco: Activist Website Sustains DDoS Attack. This post is part of our special coverage Morocco Protests 2011. The Moroccan activist website Mamfakinch! Came under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sunday 31 July, 2011, which blocked access to its main platform for several hours. The website is now back online. What is Mamfakinch! And why has it been attacked? Mamfakinch! In the wake of the Arab revolutions, a couple of Moroccan online activists launched a militant website on February 17, 2011. In the six months of its existence, Mamfakinch!
Against the backdrop of the Arab revolutions, Mamfakinch! But as Mamfakinch! One video recently surfaced on the Internet purporting to show an attack against Mamfakinch!. The attack On Sunday, 31 July, while the website was securing exclusive live coverage of the pro-democracy marches and demonstrations being held across the kingdom, access to its main portal was denied. According to the site administrators, Mamfakinch! Like Ben Ali's Tunisia. Reportage sur la manifestation de Casablanca #feb20 - MAMFAKINCH.
#FEB20 Répression Rabat vidéo 21/02 - MAMFAKINCH. Video Mapping the Protests in Morocco #FEB20 (Cartographie vidéo) Broadcasts. FRANCE 24 - Des milliers de manifestants sont descendus dans la rue pour réclamer des réformes. REVOLUTION: Three Students get arrested while spreading information about #feb20 'The Day of Dignity" REVOLUTION: Locations for #feb20 Morocco. Arab Uprisings: What the February 20 Protests Tell Us About Morocco. Share With the ouster of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, the Arab world has erupted in popular protests in favor of democracy and dignity. Morocco, long considered one of the most stable Arab countries, is not immune to this regional trend.
Inspired by the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, a group of young activists are using social media to spread the word about a protest in Casablanca on February 20. A video they have made to promote the protests has already gone viral. It features thirteen young Moroccan men and women, speaking in their native Arabic or Berber. “I am Moroccan and I will take part in the protest on February 20,” they all say, and then go on to explain their reasons for marching: freedom, equality, better living standards, education, labor rights, minority rights and so on. The February 20 movement was started by a group calling itself Democracy and Freedom Now. The reaction to the planned protests has been as predictable as it has been depressing.
Jeunes 20 février - vidéo explicative - شباب 20 فبراير. Morocco campaign #feb20 #morocco. Global Voices in English » Morocco/Western Sahara: Gadaym Izik Riots Become a Volatile Political Crisis. Western Sahara's 35-year-old struggle is once again making the headlines. The former Spanish colony was annexed by Morocco in 1975 after “The Green March Demonstration” in November of the same year.
And, according to Reuters, it witnessed one of the worst violent events in years last week. Morocco said four of its police officers and a fire-fighter were killed by protesters, while the pro-independence Polisario Front said Moroccan security forces killed a 26-year-old activist during a raid on a protest camp in the desert. It all started when more than 12,000 people gathered in the Gadaym Izik camp, near Laayoune, in what was reported to be the largest protest in the 35-year clash over Western Sahara’s proprietorship.
According to blogger Cabalamuse, there are two different theories for the reason behind the Gadaym Izik's protest. The Gadaym Izik camp stood up a month ago by discontented Sahraouis aiming to draw attention to their straitened economic circumstances. He added: He continued: