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GAYMIDDLEEAST.COM, the supplier of news and information for the G.L.B.T. community of the middle east has once again been blocked off for readers in Saudi Arabia by their own government. This week GME management has received numerous e mails from loyal readers in Saudi Arabia advising us that the Saudi authorities have blocked entrance to the site. After conducting our own investigation, GME has learned that the Saudi authorities have not only recently blocked access to GME, but also blocked access to other respected internet sites such as gay.com, gaydar.com, and 365 gay.com impossible. We don't know when these other websites were made unaccessable to Saudi internet users.

Back in June 2003, GME learned that access to our site had been blocked by the Saudi authorities for the first time. After this information was publicized in the international media, the Saudi authorities re-opened access to GME; and we were pleased to report this reopening in July 2003. We at GME assumed that the Saudi's opened up access to GME as part of their own campaign to improve the Saudi image through out the world - especially in the U.S.A.

Now again, it saddens us to report that access to GME for our readers in Saudi Arabia has been blocked once again by the authorities there. The management of GME at this time is preparing a report that will be presented to various international human rights organization that specialize in the freedom of internet speech. We are lodging an official complaint via these organizations to the Saudi authorities.

We will do all in our power to have the blockage removed from our website so that our readers in Saudi Arabia and once again access the site.

"It saddens us that this event is taking place just as GME reported that his majesty the King of Saudi Arabia has allowed for the first time the establishment of a Human Rights Commission inside Saudi Arabia." says A. Getenio, Manager of GME. He continues "It seems that Saudi Arabian human rights in general has had a very bad week, considering the imprisonment of numerous Saudi intellectuals who spoke publicly of the possibility of Saudi Arabia making the transition to a Constitutional Monarchy and the imprisonment of an reporter immediately after his about it on the same subject on El Gezira..."

GME respectfully calls upon the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to immediately grant access to our site for internet users in the Kingdom. We call upon the I.S.U. ( the Internet Services Unit which is the Saudi government agency who's job it is to filter accessability to websites.) to open access to gay related internet sites. GME will initiate an international campaign in order to allow the free disemination of news and information in the world.