Flood the Jail with Mail
By Curt on Mar 19, 2008 in Free speech, Flood the Jail with Mail, Free Kareem, Imprisoned bloggers, Kareem, Egypt
In conjunction with FreeKareem.org, the Committee to Protect Bloggers is launching a mail campaign in support of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer. (If you’re not familiar with the case of this unjustly-imprisoned blogger, please read FreeKareem’s FAQ.)
From April 7 through April 21, both organizations are encouraging their memberships to go analogue and write Kareem a letter or postcard.
There are several reasons for this departure from the digital.
First, Kareem can receive physical mail. Second, a sufficient amount of such mail will remind Egyptian authorities that this blogger, bloggers in general and prisoners of conscience over all, are not alone. When Kareem was being tortured several months ago, the focus of international media was instrumental in stopping it. Finally, it takes us out of our comfort zones and reminds us that what we do exists in the physical world with real consequences.
If you would like to write Kareem now, by all means do so, but we would also like to ask that, whatever you do, you write at least one letter to Kareem during the period from April 7 to April 21. Here is the address in English, followed by a link to the address in Arabic. (It goes without saying that the Arabic must be present on the letter to assure its delivery.)
Alexandria
Borg Al-Arab Prison
Room 1 Section 22
Prisoner Abdul Kareem Nabil Suleiman
The Arab Republic of Egypt
Kareem’s address in Arabic - mandatory to include on envelope
Read Alexandra Sandel’s article in Menassat. (She’s wrong about the dates - it’s two weeks, not one.)
Read Marshall Kirkpatrick’s article in ReadWriteWeb.
Read the Society of Professional Journalists’ post on their Press Notes blog.
Read DigiActive’s write-up.
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