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 […]

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 […]

Update: Sami sends the following note, via FreeKareem.
Today, It is allowed for anyone in Yemen to Access Free Kareem campaign. It seems that Yemeni Authorities had received tens of letters asking for releasing this site.
Unfortunately, they blocked my newest blog. It is bad to know that I could not access it from Yemen, and my […]

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 […]

It’s Twitter4Kareem today. Check out the CPB’s Twitter account and join us yourselves.
Kareem, whose full name is Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, is an Egyptian blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for airing his critical views on Islam and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Imprisoning a college student for four years for shooting […]

Tomorrow, in conjunction with FreeKareem’s recognition of the one-year anniversary of Kareem Amer’s imprisonment, we are all Twittering for Kareem.
Kareem, whose full name is Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, is an Egyptian blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for airing his critical views on Islam and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Imprisoning a […]