Posted in Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Jailed bloggers on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Esra’a told me (posted here) that all the sites associated with Free Kareem.org, to get Kareem Amer out of Egyptian jail where he’s been put due to critical comments on his blog, have been hacked. The main site’s back up but they’re still recovering data and the feeds don’t work.
I wonder who did the hack? [...]
Posted in America, Egypt, Entrepreneurship, France, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Social media on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Parisian wigglers at a bar in the Bastille, by S.
Dear Loic:
We don’t know each other well, having done nothing more than exchange a few emails over the years. But one of the benefits of being a participant in the wide world of social media is a shamelessness and a willingness to dialogue publicly, qualities [...]
Posted in China, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Journalism, Threatened bloggers, Yahoo on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Two awful stories prove that things are still bad for bloggers in oppressive countries. First, Yahoo. (And really, how could it not start with Yahoo?)
Speaking with VOA’s Mandarin Service Wednesday after arriving in Washington, Yu Ling said Chinese police arrested her husband, Wang Xiaoning, partly because Yahoo’s Hong Kong office gave Chinese authorities information about [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free speech, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman has been sentenced to four years in an Egyptian prison, three for “insulting Islam” and one for insulting Mubarak. Hey, remember when “Egypt” used to be synonymous with “civilization”? Yeah, me neither.
Committee to Protect Bloggers supported Kareem when he was first imprisoned, then freed by the Egyptian authorities, even creating a petition [...]
Posted in China, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on July 11, 2006 | No Comments »
Chinese blogger Hao Wu has been freed from his illegal detention.
Tags: Hao_Wu, threatened_bloggers, imprisoned_bloggers, human_rights, China
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on June 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Detained Egyptian blogger Alaa has been released from Egyptian police and state security. They made sure he got beaten first, of course.
Go here for more about Alaa and his release.
I’m taking down the banner in the sidebar. But that doesn’t mean the danger’s over for him, or for the other bloggers in Iran, China and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers, Writing on May 27, 2006 | No Comments »
Since the op-ed I was invited to write by Canada’s National Post is no longer accessible, I am republishing it here. This draft is not as tight as the published version, but it will have to do.
A Collective Conscience for the Wired World
On February 22, in a closed “revolutionary court” in Iran, Arash Sigarchi was [...]
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Please Digg any of these Alaa-related posts.
Alaa is one of the three Egyptian bloggers jailed by the Egyptian government.
Tags: Alaa, jailed_bloggers, censorship, Egypt, Digg
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 9, 2006 | No Comments »
Tags: Free_Alaa, Egypt, jailed_bloggers, threatened_bloggers, censorship
Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 7, 2006 | No Comments »
Now that I don’t have to be politic, having given up on the Committee to Protect Bloggers, I am free to ask: What in G-d’s name is wrong with these witless fucks?
Here’s Sandmonkey’s post, complete and unedited.
It’s War [...]
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