Standing by Egypt's bloggers
A very disturbing development. Egypt has jailed a blogger for four years for 'insulting the president'.
Egypt has a strong track record of pursuing and harrassing bloggers. It is the bloggers who are standing up against Mubarak-facism, now that the journalists have gone quiet.
Abdel Kareem Soliman fell foul of a law which threatens anyone "dissmeninating news".
He now joins the 40,000 political prisoners in Egypt. Free them all NOW, and Syria's 600, although Syria, unlike Iran, Egypt and Saudi, has never jailed a blogger.
I wonder how America, and An-Nahar will react.
Labels: Iran, Syrian blogosphere
Write to Mubarak and complain! I'm going to!
Posted by
Minge |
10:15 pm