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Category: KareemBy Curt on Oct 12, 2007 in Free Kareem, Twitter4Kareem, Kareem | 0 Comments
November 6, the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian blogger Kareem’s unjust imprisonment for his blog, is coming up. People are putting together rallies to take place on this day. FreeKareem.org is cooridnating. Two are scheduled for the U.S., one for Romania, another for Germany and another in The Netherlands. If you’d like to put one […]
By Curt on Oct 5, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Facebook, Kareem, Committee to Protect Bloggers | 0 Comments
A thank you: our Committee to Protect Bloggers Facebook page now has over 500 members. Thanks to each and every one of them.
A reminder: please take a CPB badge or button and post it on your site if you’d like to visually indicate your support for the work we’re doing.
Another reminder: November 6 […]
By Curt on Oct 3, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Kareem, Egypt | 5 Comments
As we mentioned before, we are co-sponsoring a protest on November 6 with FreeKareem. On that date, the Egyptian blogger Kareem will have been unjustly incarcerated for one year, due to communicating his opinions on his blog. There are physical marches and other activities set to coincide with this date. On our end, we are […]
By Curt on Sep 9, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Twitter, Kareem | 1 Comment
Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger, was arrested on November 6 of last year. Kareem was a young university student, a native Egyptian from a Muslim family, who thought, and spoke, critically about both Islam and Egypt. That got him a four year jail sentence. For more information on Kareem, check out FreeKareem.org, especially the Kareem […]
By Curt on Sep 2, 2007 in Abdel Monem Mahmoud, Threatened bloggers, Kareem, Egypt | 1 Comment
Update: Amr reminds us (in comments):
Monem showed solidarity for Kareem, but he was not jailed because of this. He was detained because of his campaigning against referring Muslim Brotherhood members to military tribunals, and because he spoke out about a former detention and torture experience he went through.
Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was imprisoned for […]
By Curt on Aug 22, 2007 in Imprisoned bloggers, Kareem, Egypt | 4 Comments
Kareem, a 22-year old former college student from Alexandria, is in prison in Egypt. He was sentenced on February 22, 2007 to four years in prison, three for “contempt of religion” and one for “defaming the President of Egypt.” Free Kareem have mounted a campaign to free him that has proven to be a public […]
