Committee to Protect Bloggers

Here’s a report on our two week Flood the Jail with Mail campaign for Kareem, the imprisoned Egyptian blogger. The report is via mail from Esra’a, from FreeKareem.
I think even if we had 1 letter, it would be a success for us. We had around 60 confirmed letters from around the world, and we spoke […]

Update:
RSF now reports that Esraa Abdel Fattah Ahmed has also been released.
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From RSF:
Mahamed El Sharkawi, a blogger who was arrested on 5 April while distributing leaflets urging Cairo residents to go on strike in support of the 6 April protest against food price hikes, was released yesterday from a prison in the Cairo district of […]

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 today through April 21, both organizations are encouraging their memberships to go analogue and write Kareem a letter […]

Listen to The World’s story on Kareem and our Flood the Jail with Mail campaign.

Please ready your Underwoods, sharpen your quills and click your ballpoints. Flood the Jail with Mail starts on Monday. Send a note, postcard, greeting card or letter to Kareem, the unjustly imprisoned Egyptian blogger, for two weeks, beginning Monday, April 7.
Here’s all the information you’ll need to write Kareem from our site and here is […]

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. […]

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 […]

Human Rights Watch (via Reuters) quoted a freelance journalist saying that a blogger was arrested on Thursday, January 17th in Cairo. The police broke up a Kifaya-sponsored protest against cuts in government subsidies. The opposition group, whose name means “Enough.” Had called the protest for 3:00 p.m. that day in Saida Zeinab Square. The police […]

According to Daily News Egypt, Ahmed Mohsen, described as a “Brotherhood-affiliated blogger,” was arrested in the city of Fayoum three weeks ago and is currently being held at Tora Prison. He was arrested as part of a “crackdown” on members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that is banned in Egypt. His detention was […]

Reporters Without Borders awarded its Foundation de France prize Wednesday to Kareem Amer, according to FreeKareem.
Kareem, a 23-year old Egyptian former university student was sentenced a year ago to four years in prison for “offending Islam” and President Mubarak. He has been beaten and tortured in prison. FreeKareem is collecting donations to keep him […]