Friday, June 23, 2006

Blogger freed

Egyptian police today told arrested blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam June 20 that he would be released. The process was expected to take at least a day, but by now he should be home with his wife. It's not clear whether charges remain hanging over him, but at least he is out of danger for now. He was arrested May 7, 2006, while taking part in a peaceful protest in support of two judges threatened with removal from the bench for exposing electoral fraud and also to call for the release of protesters detained in earlier demonstrations. To read his blog, click here.

This is great news, and thanks to everyone who came to his help. Concern remains that the government will continue to focus its harassing eye on the free speech efforts of the Internet community. As more Egyptians are turning to the Internet to build a civil community independent of government control and to share information about democracy and human rights, the government has stepped up harassment of blogging activists. In the past year, several bloggers have been arrested for activities that appear to be related to their free speech activities on the web. A half-dozen bloggers were detained during non-violent street protests this May and June in Egypt.

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