The United Nations has taken only two years out of his four year sentence to condemn the Egyptian authorities for imprisoning blogger Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, or Kareem Amer. 

Kareem’s trumped up charges included generic defamation and malice against everyone from the country’s president to Islam to…well, who knows?

It’s good that the United Nations has finally stated what the rest of us know, that there is little in the way of legitimate legality in Kareem’s detention. It would have been a great deal more useful, however, if they had come to this not-very-demanding conclusion before he was locked up.

I imagine that in another couple of years we’ll probably be lucky enough to see a pronouncement to the effect that refusing Omid Reza medical help was irresponsible.

Download the full text of the United Nations statement.