Gulf Air Hacked by Feb14Defence – having reservations?

Gulf Air Hacked by Feb14Defence
9 April, 2012 – AlJazeera

Activists on Sunday appear to have hacked the Facebook page of Bahrain’s national airline, Gulf Air (facebook.com/gulfair). The company’s logo has been replaced with a picture of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the imprisoned human rights activist who has been on hunger strike for 60 days to protest his detention. Posts have also been made by a group calling itself “Feb14Defence” which posted the following as Gulf Air on the Facebook wall: “page of ‘Gulf Air’ has been hacked in solidarity with Abdulhadi Alkhawaja”.

After Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy led a crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising last year, rights groups in Bahrain reported that more than 200 Shia employees of Gulf Air were dismissed from their jobs. The airline also cancelled flights to countries with large Shia populations like Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, only to resume them again later. ….more