11:12 gleich startet unser Liveblog.

11:20 Die Referenten sind da und der Raum füllt sich so langsam.

11:26 Es geht los.

11:28 Volker Beck is opening the Workshop. It’s a pleasure to have Hesam Misaghi from the Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran and Christian Rickerts from Reporter ohne Grenzen in the Workshop

11:32 Hesam Misaghi is starting his input about the situation in Iran. He is showing pictures of Human Rights Bloggers who are in Prision right now

11:35 Misaghi says that their Blogs have more and more visitors since the election in Iran 2009

11:36 One of Misaghis friends was arrested in Iran on december 13th for Blogging. He is in Prison now for 15 Years for Blogging

11:38 Christian Rickerts (Reporter ohne Grenzen) is starting his Input. When Reporter ohne Grenzen was foundet, the Internet wasn’t Important like today. Now, they are monitoring Blogs and Internet-Journalism like Print- oder TV-Journalists

11:41 Rickerts is talking about Journalists in Iran, China and Egypt, who are arrested

11:42: Rickerts: It’s necessary for Journalists and Bloggers to escape quickly. Reporter ohne Grenzen is supporting this Human-Rights-Defenders

11:45 Volker Beck asks, what we can do in europe, to support Human-Rights-Defenders?

11:50 Misaghi: The Goverment in Iran is doing everything against Human-Rights-Activists. F.e. they can block your Gmail. The new Medias are important in Iran.

11:52 Rickerts: the possibilities of support depends on the country. He says that it is important to make activities public

11:55 it’s dangerous to communicate against goverments. Cisco-Systems, Nokia and Siemens are developing systems for goverments against Human-rights-defenders

12:01 debatte about the tor-network

Tor ist ein Netzwerk zur Anonymisierung der Verbindungsdaten. Es wird für TCP-Verbindungen eingesetzt und kann beispielsweise für Web-Browsing, Instant Messaging, IRC, SSH, E-Mail, P2P und andere benutzt werden. Tor schützt vor der Analyse des Datenverkehrs seiner Nutzer. (Wikipedia)

12:05 the goverment in iran is taking pressure against human-rights-defenders to get their passwords for twitter and facebook, f.e.

12:12 Regierungen, beispielsweise in Saudi Arabien, sperren keine Inhalte. Sie nutzen aber private Informationen um das soziale Leben von Menschenrechtsverteidigern zu zerstören (Freundeskreis, Familie, Beruf, …)

12:20 Misaghi: We need your support in Iran.

12:27 Rickerts: Wir brauchen eine Lösung, um verfolgten Bloggern einen sicheren Hafen in Europa zu bieten

12:30 the end

Tags: Aktivismus, Journalismus, Menschenrechte, Soziale Netzwerke, Twitter