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Incident record · United Arab Emirates

Sustained censorship in AE (2026-04)

Type
censorship
Status
confirmed
Severity
critical
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Source summary

OONI detected 6 days of elevated network interference averaging 63.6% anomaly rate.

Open incident JSON
Reported anomaly rate
63.6%

Source-defined signal; not a universal test-failure percentage.

Source measurement count
6

The record’s count can represent aggregate inputs or alerts.

Incident confidence
72%

A source score, not certainty of intentional censorship.

Linked evidence has its own count and confidence fields. These quantities are not interchangeable.

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6 linked records.

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Linked observation dates

6 dated · 0 without a verified timezone
OONI6 linked records
Apr 20, 2026 · 06:00 UTCApr 30, 2026 · 18:00 UTC

Each point is a linked record. Horizontal position shows observation time; stacking separates nearby points. The full records below provide the values. This is not a measured outage-duration chart.

Upstream claims are attributed to their source. Multiple records or source names do not by themselves establish independent corroboration.

OONI6 records · open evidence

blocking · elevated

ooni:live:AE:signal:2026-04-30:18

OONI signal: 7/14 measurements anomalous (50.0%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.5
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
70%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
May 1, 2026 · 03:01 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 50625589,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-30T18:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-05-01T03:01:46.399302Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "elevated",
  "signalType": "blocking",
  "signalValue": 0.5,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:signal:2026-04-30:18",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-04-30&until=2026-05-01&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI signal: 7/14 measurements anomalous (50.0%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

blocking · elevated

ooni:live:AE:signal:2026-04-30:06

OONI signal: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.5
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
70%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
May 1, 2026 · 03:01 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 50625588,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-30T06:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-05-01T03:01:46.399302Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "elevated",
  "signalType": "blocking",
  "signalValue": 0.5,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:signal:2026-04-30:06",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-04-30&until=2026-05-01&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI signal: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

tor-blocking · critical

ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-28:00

OONI tor: 13/13 measurements anomalous (100.0%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
1
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
90%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
Apr 29, 2026 · 15:02 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.9,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 48086251,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-28T00:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-04-29T15:02:13.183872Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "tor-blocking",
  "signalValue": 1,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-28:00",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-04-28&until=2026-04-29&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI tor: 13/13 measurements anomalous (100.0%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

tor-blocking · critical

ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-27:18

OONI tor: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.714286
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
78.6%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
Apr 28, 2026 · 21:01 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.7857142857142858,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 46853462,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-27T18:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-04-28T21:01:54.884507Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "tor-blocking",
  "signalValue": 0.7142857142857143,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-27:18",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-04-27&until=2026-04-28&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI tor: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

tor-blocking · elevated

ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-27:12

OONI tor: 15/25 measurements anomalous (60.0%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.6
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
74%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
Apr 28, 2026 · 21:01 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.74,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 46853461,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-27T12:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-04-28T21:01:54.884507Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "elevated",
  "signalType": "tor-blocking",
  "signalValue": 0.6,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:tor:2026-04-27:12",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-04-27&until=2026-04-28&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI tor: 15/25 measurements anomalous (60.0%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

blocking · elevated

ooni:live:AE:telegram:2026-04-20:06

OONI telegram: 3/6 measurements anomalous (50.0%)

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.5
Signal baseline
Unavailable
Evidence confidence
70%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
Apr 21, 2026 · 21:02 UTC
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "continent": "Asia",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 36344021,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-20T06:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-04-21T21:02:16.502232Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "elevated",
  "signalType": "blocking",
  "signalValue": 0.5,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:live:AE:telegram:2026-04-20:06",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=telegram&since=2026-04-20&until=2026-04-21&only=anomalies",
  "unSubregion": "Western Asia",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "OONI telegram: 3/6 measurements anomalous (50.0%)",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}
Source-reported corroboration

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{
  "description": "Single source: ooni",
  "evidenceCount": 6,
  "level": "low",
  "score": 0.6,
  "sourceCount": 1,
  "sources": [
    "ooni"
  ]
}

Declared incident sources: OONI.

This record does not list two distinct sources. Treat it as a single-source or uncorroborated record.

Scope and attribution

What the record names.

Methodology

Affected services

SignalTelegramTor

Incident mechanism

No mechanism specified at the incident level.

Individual evidence may carry more specific methods. Those do not automatically describe the entire incident.

Affected domains · 0

Domains named by the source record. Each link opens country-specific OONI measurements; a named domain is not a blanket national-block verdict.

No domains named.

Networks and evidence attribution

ASNs named by this source record: None listed.

This aggregate describes fields literally present in linked evidence. It does not identify who caused an event or prove intent.

{
  "asns_attributed": 0,
  "domains_attributed": 0,
  "methods": [
    {
      "evidence_count": 3,
      "method": "blocking"
    },
    {
      "evidence_count": 3,
      "method": "tor-blocking"
    }
  ],
  "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
  "sources": [
    "ooni"
  ],
  "top_asns": [],
  "top_domains": []
}
What this record cannot establish

Measurements alone do not attribute an event to a government, ISP or another actor, and do not establish intent. An outage or anomalous result can have several explanations.

The country label is an aggregation scope. It is not a census of every network, city or service. Regional or ASN fields belong to their individual source evidence and should not be expanded into a national claim.

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Created
2026-06-15 10:22:12.854399 · timezone unspecified
Last updated
2026-06-15 10:22:12.854399 · timezone unspecified
Revision
1
Revision history and original fields

Revision-history array unavailable.

Canonical ID: AE-2026-0256. Source ID: AE-2026-0256. Hash ID: cb025646230c.

Additional source duration field: 252 hours. It is retained separately from the minutes field and does not establish a verified event duration.

Complete source JSON
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    "Tor"
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    "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
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    "level": "low",
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  "country": "AE",
  "countryName": "United Arab Emirates",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-15T10:22:12.854399",
  "description": "OONI detected 6 days of elevated network interference averaging 63.6% anomaly rate.",
  "duration": 15120,
  "durationHours": 252,
  "endTime": "2026-04-30T18:00:00Z",
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  "status": "confirmed",
  "title": "Sustained censorship in AE (2026-04)",
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}
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