Crackdown
The infamous saga of a jailed Egyptian blogger finally culminated into a four-year prison sentence:
"Abdel Kareem Nabil's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.
He had used his weblog to criticise the country's top Islamic institution, the al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator."
"A human rights group called the verdict "very tough" and a "strong message" to Egypt's many thousands of bloggers."
How severe of an effect this will have on free speech here--particularly within media circles--is soon to be seen.
dude....talking about transparency of media, this article is about half of the news!!
The guy is detained for spying for Israel, and was accused of traveling to Turkey, communicating with Israeli embassy there, and then traveled to Canada, recruited some Egyptian Coptic lads to talk negatively about Egypt.
The proof for such incidents represented in the request from Egyptian government later on to capture some 20something Israelis in Canada, US, and Turkey for interogations in the same case.
There was an article about the whole news in Ha'artez (Israeli Newspaper) that the Israeli government is seeking methods to make those 20something Israelis travel back to Israel without getting detained at any of the previously mentioned countries!!
At the end, it's not just about blogging against somebody or some entity. There are hundreds and thousands of blogs that simply write some bullshit and "criticise" whatever and whoever they want in Egypt====Don't worry about free speech in Egypt :)
Posted by Aly | 4:09 AM
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