The Uprising of Women in the Arab world group accused facebook of censoring its content || Newspapers

The administrators of the “The Uprising of Women in the Arab world” Facebook group accused, last Wednesday, Facebook of censorship and of scheming to shut the group down, after one photo that was unexpectedly controversial. This photo first posted on Oct. 21, shows a young Syrian woman, Dana Bakdounis, her short hair unveiled, holding up her passport to show the photo, in which she wears the veil. Beneath it is a hand-written message which reads “I am with the uprising of women in the Arab world because for 20 years I wasn’t to feel the wind in my hair and my body.”
The photo, along with many others showing women unveiled, veiled and in the niqab, was removed from the group by Facebook on Oct. 25, without explanation, and the administrator who posted it was blocked from her account for 24 hours. Which urged the page administrators to issue the following statement: “The repeated temporary blockades on the admins’ personal accounts with no clear motive or explanation show a direct attack on the Uprising of Women in the Arab World’s Page. It also raises serious questions about the true intentions behind FB’s policies, and whether Dana’s ‘controversial’ image is a mere excuse to shut down the voice of the Uprising of Women in the Arab World.”
One of the administrators also told The Daily Star that: “There is something wrong with the administration of Facebook in tackling this issue. The person in charge of the content of the links and the photos ... they don’t ban [a photo] just because there are reports – they look at it. So there must be someone who’s really annoyed with the content of our photos.”

Source: The Daily Star 12/11/2012