The live wire blog of Amnesty International was attacked by hackers on Monday evening, who posted comments as Amnesty staff that falsely accused the Syrian rebels of atrocities.
The human rights group's live wire blog features personal narratives from Amnesty researchers and fieldworkers.
One false post read:
“It is clear the Al Qaeda affiliated rebels are not going to stop their crimes. And with no accountability and a steady supply of weapons, why should they given they have come this far under NATO protection?"
According to Amnesty officials, as techinical staff attempted to deleted the hackers' work, the post reappeared a few hours later.
Amnesty's USA advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa, Sanjeev Bery, said:
“Amnesty International has been very blunt in the reporting that we’ve done and the eyewitness accounts that we’ve collected in Syria,”
“It’s entirely possible that, given that we’ve been so forthright in criticizing the Syrian government for its crimes against humanity, that could conceivably make us the target of some kind of campaign."
Earlier this month, the Twitter account of the Reuters news agency was also hacked by those posting anti-rebel comments.
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