Etisalat shuts off internet services in Egypt and Morocco, Access Now, 6 Jan 2016

[Two internet service restricts in Egypt and Morocco] share a common, negative impact on freedom of expression. Every type of shutdown represents a disproportionate restriction on access to information, with repercussions such as blocking emergency services, disrupting business, and cutting people off from other resources online. The shutdowns are also both linked to Etisalat. It owns a majority stake in Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s biggest telco.

Unfortunately, this is not much of a surprise. In the Ranking Digital Rights project’s new Corporate Accountability Index, Etisalat scored the overall lowest of any telecommunications company, and with good reason...

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Etisalat to respond but it has not done so.  It also reached out to Meditel and Inwi, also mentioned in the article in the context of the Morocco shut-down, but neither responded]