Curt (that’s me), the director of the Committee, and Esra’a, the director of FreeKareem and MidEast Youth, will be interviewed in a story on our Flood the Jail with Mail campaign tomorrow. Flood the Jail is a campaign to encourage people to write Kareem Amer (real name: Abdelkarim Nabil Soliman), the imprisoned Egyptian blogger. The campaign starts on April 7 and extends through April 21. (It goes without saying, you should feel free to write him at any time, but especially then.)

Go analogue to comfort one of your digital brethren.

Send Kareem a letter, a physical letter, written in your own hand, something he can hold in his. And when the prison officials see the bags of mail coming in, it will warn them off of a return to their earlier practice of physical abuse, not just of Kareem, but of any prisoner of conscience. You can listen to the story on The World’s website. It was prepared by Clark Boyd, who has an enduring interest in these issues and is very good at his job, so even if you’re familiar with what we’re doing, and with Kareem’s case, you’ll probably learn something new.