Twitter Day for Kareem
By Curt on Sep 9, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Twitter, Kareem
Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger, was arrested on November 6 of last year. Kareem was a young university student, a native Egyptian from a Muslim family, who thought, and spoke, critically about both Islam and Egypt. That got him a four year jail sentence. For more information on Kareem, check out FreeKareem.org, especially the Kareem FAQ and the section called What Kareem Said.
This upcoming November 6 the Committee to Protect Bloggers, in conjunction with FreeKareem.org, is sponsoring “Twitter4Kareem.” Using the microblogging service Twitter, we are asking everyone who decries the unjust arrest and subsequent four year jail sentence, of this young blogger,who was critical of his religion and the leadership of his country, to join with us and use their Twitter accounts to “tweet” about Kareem, free speech and threats to bloggers in Egypt and worldwide. If you are taking part in one of the many rallies for Kareem’s release, update that throughout the day. If you’re reading about him, posting about him, just thinking about him, use Twitter to tell the world.
Our goal is cause a “Twitterlanche,” a fast-growing, Twitter-borne Kareem meme to wash across what is the fastest growing application the web has yet seen. It won’t just be Twitterers who see it. Journalists, diplomats, educators and the public at large will feel the waters rise if we do it right.
Although FreeKareem.org has been successful at keeping Kareem in the public eye, which is very hard to do once you’ve been locked away from it, let’s raise his profile at this shameful one-year anniversary. Drop a note in the comments section. We’ll keep you apprised of goings on as we get closer to the date of November 6, here on the CPB blog as well as on our Twitter account, of course.
And, as we go forward with this, anyone who wants to write about it, please use the tag: TWITTER4KAREEM.
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