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The Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel-Monem Mahmoud was arrested on Sunday 15 April 2007<\/a> as he was leaving Egypt. Monem was about to begin a trip abroad to report on the \u201cstate of freedom\u201d in several Arab countries for the TV channel El Hiwar, which employs him as their Cairo correspondent. He was arrested when he was already aboard the aircraft. These events took place two days after special forces paid a visit to his family home<\/a> in an attempt to arrest him. <\/p>\n Absent from his home at the time of the visit, Monem was informed of the intimidation and threats by his parents. A friend reports that Monem expressed concern about his own safety, as well as that of his parents, who were being threatened daily through visits by the security forces. Monem told his friend that he was thinking of turning himself in to the authorities, but, on the advice of his lawyers, decided against this course of action as he did not know the exact nature of the charges being made against him. <\/p>\n Thus far, no official charges have been brought against Momen. (More about Monem's case on his campaign blog<\/a>)<\/p>","raw":"The Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel-Monem Mahmoud was arrested on Sunday 15 April 2007<\/a> as he was leaving Egypt. Monem was about to begin a trip abroad to report on the \u201cstate of freedom\u201d in several Arab countries for the TV channel El Hiwar, which employs him as their Cairo correspondent. He was arrested when he was already aboard the aircraft. These events took place two days after special forces paid a visit to his family home<\/a> in an attempt to arrest him. <\/p>","raw":" <\/p>","raw":" Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, better known by his Internet pseudonym Kareem Amer, is a native of Alexandria, Egypt. He grew up in a very religious family and attended the Al-Azhar religious school system his entire life. He began to rebel against the religious extremism he perceived in his school and began to express his opinions on a blog and the site \"Modern Discussion.\" On October 23, 2005 Kareem posted an article on his blog, in which he heavily criticizes the Islamic religion. He attacks it as an enemy of peace and freedom, expressing his thoughts after the 2005 riots against Alexandrian Copts. Three days after publishing the text, Kareem was arrested by the Egyptian security forces the first time, which illegally held him in custody for 12 days. During this time, Kareem underwent physical and mental torture and his books and writings were confiscated. After strong international protests, he was released. Four months later, the government escalated the case. On April 17, 2006 Kareem was expelled from Al Azhar university because of his anti-islamic writings and further criticism of his professors. Al Azhar also informed the security forces about these steps, which may have caused his detention on November 6, 2006. This time, Kareem was not released, but held in detention pending trial until November 22, when he was charged with the following crimes: <\/p>\n * Spreading data and malicious rumors that disrupt public security;* Defaming the president of Egypt; <\/p>\n * Incitement to overthrow the regime with hatred and contempt; * Incitement to hate \u201cIslam\u201d and breach of the public peace standards; <\/p>\n * Highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt and spreading them to the public. <\/p>\n After the first trial, the case was repeatedly delayed, mostly because of the State Security Service\u2019s questions. Finally, the trial began on January 25, 2007. On February 22, Kareem was sentenced to three years in prison for defaming Islam and another year for defaming president Mubarak by judge Ayman al-Akazi. With this decision, Kareem Amer was the first Egyptian blogger to be jailed for his public writings. From the beginning of the case, Kareem has been supported by his friends of freekareem.org, who organized a petition, international media attention, and demonstrations in several cities all over the world. On November 9, 2007 rallies were held in a dozen cities on three continents to publicize the first anniversary of Kareem\u2019s detention.<\/p>\n Kareem has been released on November 16, 2010 after spending 1471 days in prison.<\/p>","raw":"Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, better known by his Internet pseudonym Kareem Amer, is a native of Alexandria, Egypt. He grew up in a very religious family and attended the Al-Azhar religious school system his entire life. He began to rebel against the religious extremism he perceived in his school and began to express his opinions on a blog and the site \"Modern Discussion.\" On October 23, 2005 Kareem posted an article on his blog, in which he heavily criticizes the Islamic religion. He attacks it as an enemy of peace and freedom, expressing his thoughts after the 2005 riots against Alexandrian Copts. Three days after publishing the text, Kareem was arrested by the Egyptian security forces the first time, which illegally held him in custody for 12 days. During this time, Kareem underwent physical and mental torture and his books and writings were confiscated. After strong international protests, he was released. Four months later, the government escalated the case. On April 17, 2006 Kareem was expelled from Al Azhar university because of his anti-islamic writings and further criticism of his professors. Al Azhar also informed the security forces about these steps, which may have caused his detention on November 6, 2006. This time, Kareem was not released, but held in detention pending trial until November 22, when he was charged with the following crimes: On July 22nd, 2009, Egyptian state security forces broke into Ahmad's house and confiscated his books. The security forces did not inform his family about accusations or charges or where he was taken. He is most likely being held in Nasr City State Security headquarters.<\/p>\n Ahmad, who blogs at Al- Bayareq (lanterns), identifies himself as an \u201cIslamist.\u201d<\/p>","raw":"On July 22nd, 2009, Egyptian state security forces broke into Ahmad's house and confiscated his books. The security forces did not inform his family about accusations or charges or where he was taken. He is most likely being held in Nasr City State Security headquarters. Ahmed Hassan Basiouny is facing a military trial<\/a> this month under case number 4405\/2010 after creating a group on facebook<\/a>. He is charged with disclosing military secrets on the internet, thus is under military trial and accused by the military prosecution<\/a> for: \u201cBroadcasting secrets of defense via the Internet, and publishing news and information related to the Armed Forces of Egypt by creating a website titled Packing and Recruitment Management in Egypt and answering questions of youth applying to the recruitment\u201d.<\/p>\n The group Bassiouny created is named the Administration Of Military Recruitment And Mobilization<\/a>, after the military authority responsible for receiving the new soldiers and orienting them. Good to note that the military service<\/a> in Egypt is mandatory for men, they may be exempted or defer it in certain conditions and according to specific terms, but in all cases, every Egyptian male has to handle his status of military service through this administration.The group includes information about prerequisites for military service, documents needed for recruitment, submission dates, deadlines and other formalities, all this information is available on the press and some of them are already online. Bassiouny was just making it easier to his peers to have everything in one page. The group has now approximately 1800 members. And he clearly stated that his group is \u2018unofficial and voluntary\u2019.<\/p>\n On November 30th, 2010, the military court sentenced Ahmad to 6 months imprisonment for broadcasting secrets of defense on Facebook.<\/p>","raw":"Ahmed Hassan Basiouny is facing a military trial<\/a> this month under case number 4405\/2010 after creating a group on facebook<\/a>. He is charged with disclosing military secrets on the internet, thus is under military trial and accused by the military prosecution<\/a> for: \u201cBroadcasting secrets of defense via the Internet, and publishing news and information related to the Armed Forces of Egypt by creating a website titled Packing and Recruitment Management in Egypt and answering questions of youth applying to the recruitment\u201d. Ahmad Mostafa, an engineering student at the University of Kafr el-Sheikh, is the first Egyptian blogger to stand before a military court because of his blogging. Ahmad wrote on his blog Maza Asabak ya Watan<\/em> (What Weent Wrong With You oh My country?!) about a student from the War School, who was expelled and his dad asked to sign a statement saying: \"my son was not able to adapt to the military life<\/em>\". <\/p>\n According to Mostafa's blog post<\/a>, which only quoted members of the expelled student's family, a rich man who wanted to have his son join the school but couldn't find a place for him, maneuvered for this place and then succeeded to replace his son with the expelled Mostafa.<\/p>\n He was transferred to the military attorney who decided to keep him in custody for 4 days in order to resume the investigation, and to send him to the military court in Cairo on February 28th, 2010, as he is accused of: \n 1- defaming the Egyptian armed forces. 2- shaking the trust of people on the armed forces. 3- publishing false news.<\/p>\n According to Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/a>, Mostafa admitted, during the hearing (february 28th, 2010) that \"he wrote the blog entry but refused to disclose his sources for the story, making him legally responsible for its contents.\"<\/p>\n \u201c[My source] is afraid that the issue will reach the press, but I decided to publish it here anyway,\" Mostafa wrote on his blog before telling the former student's story. \"If it reaches the press, it will circulate fast.\u201d<\/p>","raw":"Ahmad Mostafa, an engineering student at the University of Kafr el-Sheikh, is the first Egyptian blogger to stand before a military court because of his blogging. Ahmad wrote on his blog Maza Asabak ya Watan<\/em> (What Weent Wrong With You oh My country?!) about a student from the War School, who was expelled and his dad asked to sign a statement saying: \"my son was not able to adapt to the military life<\/em>\". \r\n\r\nAccording to Mostafa's blog post<\/a>, which only quoted members of the expelled student's family, a rich man who wanted to have his son join the school but couldn't find a place for him, maneuvered for this place and then succeeded to replace his son with the expelled Mostafa.\r\n\r\nHe was transferred to the military attorney who decided to keep him in custody for 4 days in order to resume the investigation, and to send him to the military court in Cairo on February 28th, 2010, as he is accused of: \r\n 1- defaming the Egyptian armed forces. 2- shaking the trust of people on the armed forces. 3- publishing false news.\r\n\r\nAccording to Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/a>, Mostafa admitted, during the hearing (february 28th, 2010) that \"he wrote the blog entry but refused to disclose his sources for the story, making him legally responsible for its contents.\"\r\n\r\n\u201c[My source] is afraid that the issue will reach the press, but I decided to publish it here anyway,\" Mostafa wrote on his blog before telling the former student's story. \"If it reaches the press, it will circulate fast.\u201d","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ahmad-mostafa","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"city":{"id":"city","content":"Kafr el-Sheikh","raw":"Kafr el-Sheikh ","class":"city","label":"city","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"31.111900","raw":"31.111900","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"30.936100","raw":"30.936100","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Ahmad Saad Abou Domah","raw":"Ahmad Saad Abou Domah","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/doma.jpg","raw":"148","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Under Arrest","raw":"Under Arrest","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2009-02-10","raw":"2009-02-10 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2009-02-10","raw":null,"class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"http:\/\/ikhwan-poet.maktoobblog.com\/","raw":"http:\/\/ikhwan-poet.maktoobblog.com\/","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" <\/p>","raw":" <\/p>","raw":" <\/p>","raw":" From Wikipedia<\/a>: Alaa Ahmed Abd El Fattah (Arabic: \u0639\u0644\u0627\u0621 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0633\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0627\u062d\u200e) is a prominent Egyptian blogger<\/a>, software developer, and democracy activist. He is known for co-founding (along with wife Manal) the Egyptian blog aggregator \"Manalaa\". He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of important software and platforms.<\/p>\n His father, Ahmad Seif, is a prominent lawyer and manager of Hesham Mubarak Law Centre, and his mother, Prof. Laila Suief, is a mathematics professor in Cairo University and a political activist.<\/p>\n On Sunday, May 7, 2006, he was arrested during a peaceful protest which spoke out on behalf of an independent Egyptian judiciary. His arrest, along with that of several other bloggers and democracy activists, spurred a protest by others around the world, some of whom created a new blog, \"Free Alaa\", devoted to calling for his release from jail.<\/p>\n Alaa Abd El Fattah was released on Tuesday June 20, 2006, after spending 45 days in jail. His wife Manal was quoted as saying in media reports (The Independent, UK): \"There's no going back now, we'll definitely be continuing our activities.\"<\/p>\n On October 30, 2011, Abd El Fattah was detained again<\/a> after refusing to be interrogated by the interim military government. His initial fifteen-day sentence was then extended on November 13<\/a> for another fifteen days. <\/p>\n Alaa Abdel Fattah has reportedly been released on Sunday December 25, after being detained since 30 October, although the charges against him have not been dropped, according to his father and lawyer.<\/p>","raw":"From Wikipedia<\/a>: Alaa Ahmed Abd El Fattah (Arabic: \u0639\u0644\u0627\u0621 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0633\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0627\u062d\u200e) is a prominent Egyptian blogger<\/a>, software developer, and democracy activist. He is known for co-founding (along with wife Manal) the Egyptian blog aggregator \"Manalaa\". He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of important software and platforms. Alber Saber Ayad<\/a> (known as Alber Saber) is a computer science student from a Coptic-Christian family living in Cairo. He was arrested<\/a> on September 13, 2012 after neighbours accused him of sharing the infamous YouTube trailer 'The Innocence of Muslims' on his Facebook page and tearing the Qu'ran. Alber was released in early 2013 and left Egypt on 26 January, the day of his appeal session.<\/p>\n Despite conclusive evidence against these claims and a complaint against the Public Prosecution<\/a> from human right organizations, Saber was held in detention and charged with blasphemy then referred to court<\/a>. His controversial trial resumed on October 17, 2012<\/a>. Alber Saber started a hunger strike on October 25, 2012<\/a> in sign of protest against the mistreatments he has been subjected to in prison. Alber Saber spoke from prison for the first time for CyberDissidents.org<\/a>\n telling about how events have unfolded prior to his arrest. For Amnesty International, Alber Saber is a prisoner of conscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n A regularly updated Facebook page<\/a> had been created as well as a petition<\/a> launched calling for Saber to be cleared from all charges and set free. A hashtag, #FreeAlber<\/a>, was created on Twitter calling for his release. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According the Egyptian online news website Daily News Egypt, Alber was released in early 2013 and left Egypt on 26 January, the day of his appeal session.<\/p>","raw":"Alber Saber Ayad<\/a> (known as Alber Saber) is a computer science student from a Coptic-Christian family living in Cairo. He was arrested<\/a> on September 13, 2012 after neighbours accused him of sharing the infamous YouTube trailer 'The Innocence of Muslims' on his Facebook page and tearing the Qu'ran. Alber was released in early 2013 and left Egypt on 26 January, the day of his appeal session. May 30, 2007, Egyptian blogger Amr Gharbeia has been interrogated on charges of libel and then released on a LE200 bail. During the interrogation the prosecutor tried to force Amr into handing out the IP addresses of readers who posted comments on his blog, but Amr rightly refused.<\/p>","raw":"May 30, 2007, Egyptian blogger Amr Gharbeia has been interrogated on charges of libel and then released on a LE200 bail. During the interrogation the prosecutor tried to force Amr into handing out the IP addresses of readers who posted comments on his blog, but Amr rightly refused.","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/amr-gharbeia","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"28.381735","raw":"28.381735","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"32.519531","raw":"32.519531","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Ashraf Wagdy","raw":"Ashraf Wagdy","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Ashraf_Wagdy.jpg","raw":"376","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Released","raw":"Released","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2010-03-28","raw":"2010-03-28 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2010-03-29","raw":"2010-03-29 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&gid=113154345363926","raw":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&gid=113154345363926","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"field_campaign_url_value":{"id":"field_campaign_url_value","content":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&gid=113154345363926","raw":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&gid=113154345363926","class":"field-campaign-url-value","label":"campaign_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Dr. Ashraf Wagdy<\/a><\/em>, an Egyptian leftist activist, was arrested on Sunday<\/a>, March 28th, 2010, at 7 pm GMT. He runs a Facebook group<\/a> for promoting Mohamed ElBaradie<\/em><\/a> for running for Presidency.<\/p>\n He is on an open hunger strike as a pressure for his release, since the Egyptian police abusively postponed his appearing in front of the public prosecution<\/a>, holding him without a charge.<\/p>\n Another Facebook group<\/a> is created calling for his release. Dr. Ashraf Wagdy is an ex-psychiatrist, and the head of Books&Beans<\/a><\/em> library, a major cultural center in Mansoura<\/a> <\/em>city, 120 Km north east of Cairo<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Dr. Ashraf Magdy was released the next day at 3:00 pm GMT with nothing charged against him, he returned his home safely.<\/p>","raw":"Dr. Ashraf Wagdy<\/a><\/em>, an Egyptian leftist activist, was arrested on Sunday<\/a>, March 28th, 2010, at 7 pm GMT. He runs a Facebook group<\/a> for promoting Mohamed ElBaradie<\/em><\/a> for running for Presidency.\r\n\r\nHe is on an open hunger strike as a pressure for his release, since the Egyptian police abusively postponed his appearing in front of the public prosecution<\/a>, holding him without a charge.\r\n\r\nAnother Facebook group<\/a> is created calling for his release. Dr. Ashraf Wagdy is an ex-psychiatrist, and the head of Books&Beans<\/a><\/em> library, a major cultural center in Mansoura<\/a> <\/em>city, 120 Km north east of Cairo<\/a><\/em>.\r\n\r\nDr. Ashraf Magdy was released the next day at 3:00 pm GMT with nothing charged against him, he returned his home safely.","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ashraf-wagdy","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"city":{"id":"city","content":"Mansoura","raw":"Mansoura","class":"city","label":"city","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"31.041300","raw":"31.041300","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"31.379900","raw":"31.379900","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Ayman Youssef Mansour","raw":"Ayman Youssef Mansour","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Under Arrest","raw":"Under Arrest","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2011-08-22","raw":"2011-08-22 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2011-08-22","raw":null,"class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Ayman Youssef Mansour, a netizen who was arrested in August, was \nsentenced<\/a> by a Cairo court on 22 October to three years of forced labour\n on a charge of deliberately insulting, attacking and mocking Islam on \nFacebook.<\/p>","raw":"Ayman Youssef Mansour, a netizen who was arrested in August, was \r\nsentenced<\/a> by a Cairo court on 22 October to three years of forced labour\r\n on a charge of deliberately insulting, attacking and mocking Islam on \r\nFacebook.\r\n","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ayman-youssef-mansour","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"26.820553","raw":"26.820553","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"30.802498","raw":"30.802498","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Beshoy Kamil Kamel","raw":"Beshoy Kamil Kamel","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Under Arrest","raw":"Under Arrest","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2012-07-30","raw":"2012-07-30 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2012-07-30","raw":null,"class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Beshoy Kamil Kamel is an Egyptian Coptic-Christian school teacher from the Governorate of Sohag. He was arrested on July 30, 2012 for sharing cartoons on a Facebook page<\/a>. Those allegedly defamed the Islamic faith and the Prophet Muhammad. The Egyptian citizen who filed the charges also accused Beshoy Kamel of insulting the President Morsi.<\/p>\n An Egyptian court found Beshoy Kamil Kamel guilty of blasphemy and defamation<\/a>.\n Kamel was sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the Prophet \nMohammed, Egypt\u2019s president, and one of the plaintiff lawyers. Kamel has denied the charges, and his appeal was held<\/a> on September 27, 2012. The Court rejected his appeal<\/a> (Arabic).<\/p>\n Blasphemy cases<\/a> have been on the rise since President Morsi came to power, denounced<\/a> human right defenders.<\/p>","raw":"Beshoy Kamil Kamel is an Egyptian Coptic-Christian school teacher from the Governorate of Sohag. He was arrested on July 30, 2012 for sharing cartoons on a Facebook page<\/a>. Those allegedly defamed the Islamic faith and the Prophet Muhammad. The Egyptian citizen who filed the charges also accused Beshoy Kamel of insulting the President Morsi. On Friday 16 October, 2009, the Egyptian blogger Demagh Mak<\/a> and his brother were stopped in the Egyptian province of Tanta by a police officer named Mohamed El-Dahrawy, allegedly for an ID check.<\/p>\n While asking for IDs, the police officer, for no obvious reason, began to beat Mak on his back. When Mak asked the officer to treat him and his brother with more respect, the officer was joined by a group of around eight soldiers and informers, who proceeded to participate in the beating.<\/p>\n Mak and his brother were taken to the police station, but released on arrival. To date no explanation for the incident has been given.<\/p>\n According to Demagh Mak, this incident wasn't related to his blogging activities; such incidents happen every day in Egypt to normal citizens .<\/p>","raw":" On Friday 16 October, 2009, the Egyptian blogger Demagh Mak<\/a> and his brother were stopped in the Egyptian province of Tanta by a police officer named Mohamed El-Dahrawy, allegedly for an ID check. While asking for IDs, the police officer, for no obvious reason, began to beat Mak on his back. When Mak asked the officer to treat him and his brother with more respect, the officer was joined by a group of around eight soldiers and informers, who proceeded to participate in the beating. Mak and his brother were taken to the police station, but released on arrival. To date no explanation for the incident has been given. Diaa was arrested more than time and ill-treated. He still harassed by State Security.<\/p>","raw":"Diaa was arrested more than time and ill-treated. 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The controversy began on October 1st 2008, when some young Muslims were browsing Hani's blog and found a link to another site containing an electronic novel called \"Azazil's Goat in Mecca\" which included an attack on Islam. This work was written by an anonymous author under the name of \"Father Utah.\" The novel came in response to Yusuf Zidane's famous novel \"Azazil,\" which was considered by some conservatives as offensive to Christianity.<\/p>\n \"When a police force from state security came to Nazeer's house to arrest him on 1 October, he was not home. They took his two brothers as hostages until he turned himself in. Two days later, another security force went to his house and arrested Nazeer's sisters as a further measure. Nazeer went in person to state security on 3 October, and was detained in Burj Al-Arab prison, where he remains.\" (IFEX<\/a>))<\/p>\n Nazeer is being detained in Borg El-Arab prison in Alexandria, which used to be the place of keeping Egyptian bloggers. 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According to a twitter message left on the blog<\/a>, it seems that his equipment was returned to him without the memory camera's card that had the pix of the strike.","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mahmoud-chachtawi","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"26.824071","raw":"26.824071","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"31.816406","raw":"31.816406","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Mikael Nabil Sanad","raw":"Mikael Nabil Sanad","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/screen_shot_2011-10-06_at_11.16.22_am.png","raw":"480","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Released","raw":"Released","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2011-03-28","raw":"2011-03-28 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2012-01-23","raw":"2012-01-23 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"http:\/\/www.maikelnabil.com\/","raw":"http:\/\/www.maikelnabil.com\/","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"field_campaign_url_value":{"id":"field_campaign_url_value","content":"http:\/\/www.freemaikel.com\/","raw":"http:\/\/www.freemaikel.com\/","class":"field-campaign-url-value","label":"campaign_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Mikael Nabil, also known by his blog pseudonym \"Son of Ra,\" was arrested on 28 March 2011 for participating in anti-Mubarak protests during which he held a banner which read \"Civil, not military or religious.\" On 30 March, he was transferred to a Military Court, and charged with \"insulting the military institution, dissemination of false news and disturbing public security\". 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Absent from his home at the time of the visit, Monem was informed of the intimidation and threats by his parents. A friend reports that Monem expressed concern about his own safety, as well as that of his parents, who were being threatened daily through visits by the security forces. Monem told his friend that he was thinking of turning himself in to the authorities, but, on the advice of his lawyers, decided against this course of action as he did not know the exact nature of the charges being made against him.
Thus far, no official charges have been brought against Momen. (More about Monem's case on his campaign blog<\/a>)
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* Spreading data and malicious rumors that disrupt public security;
* Defaming the president of Egypt; \r\n\r\n
* Incitement to overthrow the regime with hatred and contempt;
* Incitement to hate \u201cIslam\u201d and breach of the public peace standards; \r\n\r\n
* Highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt and spreading them to the public. \r\n\r\n
After the first trial, the case was repeatedly delayed, mostly because of the State Security Service\u2019s questions. Finally, the trial began on January 25, 2007. On February 22, Kareem was sentenced to three years in prison for defaming Islam and another year for defaming president Mubarak by judge Ayman al-Akazi. With this decision, Kareem Amer was the first Egyptian blogger to be jailed for his public writings. From the beginning of the case, Kareem has been supported by his friends of freekareem.org, who organized a petition, international media attention, and demonstrations in several cities all over the world. On November 9, 2007 rallies were held in a dozen cities on three continents to publicize the first anniversary of Kareem\u2019s detention.
Kareem has been released on November 16, 2010 after spending 1471 days in prison.
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Ahmad, who blogs at Al- Bayareq (lanterns<\/span>), identifies himself as an \u201cIslamist.\u201d
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The group Bassiouny created is named the Administration Of Military Recruitment And Mobilization<\/a>, after the military authority responsible for receiving the new soldiers and orienting them. Good to note that the military service<\/a> in Egypt is mandatory for men, they may be exempted or defer it in certain conditions and according to specific terms, but in all cases, every Egyptian male has to handle his status of military service through this administration.
The group includes information about prerequisites for military service, documents needed for recruitment, submission dates, deadlines and other formalities, all this information is available on the press and some of them are already online. Bassiouny was just making it easier to his peers to have everything in one page. The group has now approximately 1800 members. And he clearly stated that his group is \u2018unofficial and voluntary\u2019.
On November 30th, 2010, the military court sentenced Ahmad to 6 months imprisonment for broadcasting secrets of defense on Facebook.
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His father, Ahmad Seif, is a prominent lawyer and manager of Hesham Mubarak Law Centre, and his mother, Prof. Laila Suief, is a mathematics professor in Cairo University and a political activist.
On Sunday, May 7, 2006, he was arrested during a peaceful protest which spoke out on behalf of an independent Egyptian judiciary. His arrest, along with that of several other bloggers and democracy activists, spurred a protest by others around the world, some of whom created a new blog, \"Free Alaa\", devoted to calling for his release from jail.
Alaa Abd El Fattah was released on Tuesday June 20, 2006, after spending 45 days in jail. His wife Manal was quoted as saying in media reports (The Independent, UK): \"There's no going back now, we'll definitely be continuing our activities.\"
On October 30, 2011, Abd El Fattah was detained again<\/a> after refusing to be interrogated by the interim military government. His initial fifteen-day sentence was then extended on November 13<\/a> for another fifteen days.
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Despite conclusive evidence against these claims and a complaint against the Public Prosecution<\/a> from human right organizations, Saber was held in detention and charged with blasphemy then referred to court<\/a>. His controversial trial resumed on October 17, 2012<\/a>. Alber Saber started a hunger strike on October 25, 2012<\/a> in sign of protest against the mistreatments he has been subjected to in prison. Alber Saber spoke from prison for the first time for CyberDissidents.org<\/a>\r\n telling about how events have unfolded prior to his arrest. For Amnesty International, Alber Saber is a prisoner of conscience<\/a>.
A regularly updated Facebook page<\/a> had been created as well as a petition<\/a> launched calling for Saber to be cleared from all charges and set free. A hashtag, #FreeAlber<\/a>, was created on Twitter calling for his release.
\r\n\r\nAccording the Egyptian online news website Daily News Egypt, Alber was released in early 2013 and left Egypt on 26 January, the day of his appeal session.","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/alber-saber-ayad","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"city":{"id":"city","content":"Cairo","raw":"Cairo","class":"city","label":"city","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Egypt","raw":"eg","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"30.044420","raw":"30.044420","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"31.235712","raw":"31.235712","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Amr Gharbeia","raw":"Amr Gharbeia","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/amr_Gharbeia.jpg","raw":"74","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Threatened","raw":"Threatened","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2007-05-30","raw":"2007-05-30 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2007-05-30","raw":null,"class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"http:\/\/gharbeia.net\/","raw":"http:\/\/gharbeia.net\/","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":"
An Egyptian court found Beshoy Kamil Kamel guilty of blasphemy and defamation<\/a>.\r\n Kamel was sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the Prophet \r\nMohammed, Egypt\u2019s president, and one of the plaintiff lawyers. Kamel has denied the charges, and his appeal was held<\/a> on September 27, 2012. The Court rejected his appeal<\/a> (Arabic).
Blasphemy cases<\/a> have been on the rise since President Morsi came to power, denounced<\/a> human right defenders.
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<\/p>\r\n\r\nAccording to Demagh Mak, this incident wasn't related to his blogging activities; such incidents happen every day in Egypt to normal citizens .
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\"When a police force from state security came to Nazeer's house to arrest him on 1 October, he was not home. They took his two brothers as hostages until he turned himself in. Two days later, another security force went to his house and arrested Nazeer's sisters as a further measure. Nazeer went in person to state security on 3 October, and was detained in Burj Al-Arab prison, where he remains.\" (IFEX<\/a>))
Nazeer is being detained in Borg El-Arab prison in Alexandria, which used to be the place of keeping Egyptian bloggers. On November 9, 2009, he threatened<\/a> to go on hunger strike.
Nazeer was released on 22 July, 2010, because of recent reforms to Egypt\u2019s Emergency Law.
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\r\nFrom Wikipedia<\/a>: Wael Abbas (\u0648\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0639\u0628\u0627\u0633) is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos of police brutality. His actions led to the conviction of police for torture, but he has been harassed by the Egyptian government, and his accounts with YouTube and Yahoo were closed. YouTube has since restored his account and most of his videos. Facebook had deleted Wael's account but it has since been restored
\r\n\r\nYahoo had shut down two of his email accounts, accusing him of being a spammer.
\r\n\r\nHuman rights groups said that YouTube was shutting down a useful source of info on abuses in Egypt just as the government was increasing its crackdown on independent and opposition journalists. Twelve Egyptian journalists had been jailed between September and November 2007. Elijah Zarwan thinks that it was unlikely YouTube was reacting to official government pressure.
\r\n\r\nYouTube initially restored his account but not his videos, and said that his account was blocked because he failed to provide sufficient context about the violence. 187 of his videos were subsequently restored. Abbas has posted on his blog that Yahoo has restored his email account.
\r\n\r\nIn November 2009, Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas has been sentenced in absentia to 6 months in jail, as a lawsuit was filed against him by a citizen and his police officer brother on charges of damaging an internet cable!. The appeal court canceled the sentence and acquitted Abbas on 18th February.
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\r\n\r\n\r\nOn 8 March 2010<\/a>, Abbas received a letter from the court informing him that he has been sentenced 6 months in jail, of course, in absentia. Until publishing this post, there isn't much information on this case or the charges against him. I will update this post with more details once things are more clear.
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