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By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Egyptian blogger gets four years in prison for contempt of religion

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:24:51 +0000

[...] He was arrested in November, tried this month, and today the verdict came down: guilty of contempt of religion, insulting the president and spreading false information. It’s that last charge that’s most interesting, though. I’ve written before about Egyptian bloggers and how, although there’s only a very few of them writing about politics, they’ve exerted extraordinary influence in the country by exposing gruesome torture by the state police and mass sexual harassment of women on the streets of Cairo after Eid. (Their latest expose came just a few weeks ago.) Not only that, but according to the Beeb, “Bloggers also play an important role in Egypt’s small pro-democracy movement. They advertise in advance the times and venues of political protests, and then post pictures and accounts of how the police dealt with the demonstrations.” I’ve written about that, too. [...]

By: Creed

Creed — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:58:48 +0000

I just read it, and quite frankly I’m ashamed that our country provides so much support to Egypt. This is another reason why we need to do all we can to foster democracy in the middle east.

By: RobertHuntingdon

RobertHuntingdon — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:18:25 +0000

Crap like this makes me wish we COULD be the world’s policeman. Unfortunately, we can’t. But anybody who knowingly sexually assaults ANYBODY should be executed. Period. If she (or he!) said no, back the )(@$ off.

By: NoisyRoom.net » Egyptian police sexually assault imprisoned blogger

NoisyRoom.net » Egyptian police sexually assault imprisoned blogger — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:47:29 +0000

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By: Dread Pirate Roberts VI

Dread Pirate Roberts VI — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:43:51 +0000

Ok this posting is pushing 24 hours without a response.

Wonder way?

Hummmm! A little self-absorbed are we?

Shades of the MSM Taking Heads?