Free Kareem
When we write here on our nice pretty little blog, we are exercising our right to free speech. Unfortunately this right is not available to all individuals in the world. Sad to say, but imprisonment is still a fear for many writers and bloggers out there.
Abdelkareem Soliman, also known online as Kareem Amer, is a soft-spoken 22 year-old Egyptian blogger whose basic personal rights have been abused by the Egyptian government. His only “crime†was to publish critical blogposts on the Internet. Due to the “secular†views expressed on his blog, he was expelled from Al-Azhar University and turned over the police prosecutor in Alexandria, Egypt. (via)
So join the many voices in the blogosphere and get the word out. This may not be occurring in The Philippines, but we all know the tragedies that can happen, and is happening to writers, journalists, and opposition leaders here in The Philippines.
You can go to freekareem.org
I encourage everybody to follow up on this. Freedom of speech is indeed one of the most important issues of our time.
John
Asia Observer
[...] When we wrote a while back about Kareem and his wrongful arrest, because of what he wrote in his blogs, I could not foresee that he would be headed to a road of confinement. But, indeed, this is what has transpired this week. [...]
[...] scores of cases in which they clearly violated human rights. In a case that we covered in January, Abdelkareem Soliman, a 22 year old blogger, simply known as Kareem, was arrested for posting critical posts in his [...]