Egyptian Blogger taken in Detention
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Manal and Alaa’s blog writes:
Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman is a 21 year-old Egyptian student of law at the Azhar University, Damanhour Campus, a women’s-rights activist and a correspondent for Copts United.
In addition to writing at Civic Dialogue, he also publishes at a blog he maintains.On Wednesday 26 October 2005, Egyptian State Security took Abdolkarim from his home, and confiscated hard copies of his writings. He is now on his way to an unknown detention. Three Egyptian bloggers visited Abdolkarim’s family. The family attributed the state security raid to his writings, although it was not clear if his blogging is directly related. According to his brother, Abdolkarim’s relations with Islamist Fundamentalists in his neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria, are tense. It is possible that the fundamentalists have filed a security complaint that led to his detention.
More: Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egyptian Blogs, and http://technorati.com/tag/abdolkarim
Update: Alaa, adds that both Amr Gharbia digressing(Arabic) and MalcomeX(Arabic) visited Abdel Karims family to help but Baheyya reports (and Alaa confirms) that he may be in for a tough ride as he was very outspoken against Islam (Arabic).
Update: Abdolkarim emailed another blogger (http://endehash.manalaa.net) telling him how he doesn’t fear getting his name published in a survey, as he beleives that the sensitive posts about religion he writes about should not be behind red lines. He also said that he fears the consequences and that he was once attacked by some thugs hired who attemted to beat him.
http://endehash.manalaa.net/kareem [Hat Tip: Mostafa]
Update: Another Haitham (of Jar El Qamar) was with Mohammed (Digressing) and Malek (MalcomX) in the visit.[Hat Tip: R]
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14 Comments on “Egyptian Blogger taken in Detention”
I have not left this couch since I heard the news. Three other bloggers made the visit.
Thanks, Amr for the correction. I made the change at GV post too.
Please keep us updated…
Has he been outspoken against Islam itself or against acts done in the name of Islam?
kinzi,
Apparently, from what I read in his blog, he is attacking Muslims and Islam in a very offensive way.
Haitham,
Another Haitham Jar El Qamar was with Mohammed (Digressing) and Malek (MalcomX) in the visit. It will be nice to add him.
It was a courageous and noble act from them that deserve our respect; all three of them don’t agree at all with Kareem’s writings and yet they visited him and are now campaigning for his release.
Thanks for letting me know. It saddens me, and makes the visitation of the Muslim bloggers a selfless act of solidarity.
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In it he announced that he was released yesterday by the Police after spending 18 days under arrest, 6 of which he was arrested by National Secur…
Thanks for letting me know. It saddens me, and makes the visitation of the Muslim bloggers a selfless act of solidarity.
The autocrats of the Muslim Middle East have looked at the new media of the blogosphere and are applying the same old oppression, not just in Moammar Qaddafi?s Libya, but also in Hosni Mubarak?s Egypt?
yes you are right!!