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Free Alaa: campaign for Egyptian blogger's freedom

alaa_scaled_0.jpg The arrest and detention of Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam by Egyptian authorities following a peaceful protest in Cairo on Sunday is being well-covered in the blogosphere. Everyone from Instapundit to Elijah Zarwan is writing about it, and Global Voices Online is promoting a googlebomb campaign to direct "Egypt" google queries to freealaa.blogspot.com. Human Rights Watch has a press release out, and Alaa appears to be blogging (somehow) from his prison cell -- in English, he says, so his cellmates won't read over his shoulder.

Given the welcome flurry of angry attention directed at Egypt, I don't have much to add -- except to wish strength and peace to Alaa and Manal, and to the others in dentention and their families. I hope the Egyptian authorities come to their senses quickly and realize that jailing peaceful protesters for exercising the right to free expression (in this case, in support of judges persecuted for their anti-corruption stance, a huge issue in Egypt) is not, in the long run, a viable option.


Posted by Janet on May 10, 2006 10:24 PM |

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