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04-23-2012, 06:33 PM
"U.S. President Barack Obama
will announce sanctions on Monday on those helping Syria and
Iran acquire technology that lets them target dissidents through
their cell phone and Internet use.
Social media tools that allowed democracy campaigners to
organize rallies across the Middle East and North Africa are
being monitored by Tehran and Damascus to "facilitate serious
human rights abuses," an administration official said.
Obama was to unveil the executive order, which he signed on
Sunday, in a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The order freezes U.S. assets linked to people found to have
aided satellite, computer and phone network monitoring in Syria,
where more than 9,000 people have been killed in more than a
year in turmoil, as well as Iran, where Washington believes
authorities are clamping down on opposition groups."
UPDATE 1-Obama seeks to curb Iran, Syria dissident monitoring - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-technologyrights-update-1l2e8fn0yt-20120423,0,2130524.story)
will announce sanctions on Monday on those helping Syria and
Iran acquire technology that lets them target dissidents through
their cell phone and Internet use.
Social media tools that allowed democracy campaigners to
organize rallies across the Middle East and North Africa are
being monitored by Tehran and Damascus to "facilitate serious
human rights abuses," an administration official said.
Obama was to unveil the executive order, which he signed on
Sunday, in a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The order freezes U.S. assets linked to people found to have
aided satellite, computer and phone network monitoring in Syria,
where more than 9,000 people have been killed in more than a
year in turmoil, as well as Iran, where Washington believes
authorities are clamping down on opposition groups."
UPDATE 1-Obama seeks to curb Iran, Syria dissident monitoring - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-technologyrights-update-1l2e8fn0yt-20120423,0,2130524.story)