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• Egypt blogger freed after 'weeks of torture'

  - 2008-06-02

  CAIRO AFP — A blogger released after weeks behind bars over deadly protests at Egypt's biggest textile plant for higher pay and controls on prices, said Monday he and his fellow detainees suffered weeks of "torture". "We were subjected to electric shocks, to beatings and there was no food...

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• Rights group calls for release of Egypt blogger

  - 2008-05-19

  CAIRO AFP — Reporters Without Borders RSF on Monday called on the Egyptian authorities to release a blogger arrested while covering a strike at a textile plant in the Nile Delta. Kareem el-Beheiri was arrested on April 6 at the Misr Spinning and Weaving company where he worked in...

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• Egypt bloggers prepare second strike on regime

  - 2008-04-07

  CAIRO AFP — Galvanised by their call for a general strike on Sunday, Egypt's cyber dissidents have set a new date for anti-regime action on May 4 as an 80th birthday present for President Hosni Mubarak. "We succeeded on April 6, so let's do it again on May 4,"...

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• US chides ally Egypt over conviction of student blogger

  - 2007-03-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States chided its key Middle East ally Egypt on Thursday over the treatment of a student blogger jailed for making online statements deemed insulting to religion and the president. "The United States is disappointed that the initial appeal of the Egyptian student blogger Abdel...

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• Egypt court rejects blogger appeal

  - 2007-03-12

  CAIRO AFP — An Egyptian court on Monday upheld a four-year sentence against a blogger convicted of insulting religion and defaming the president, a verdict condemned by rights groups as a threat to free speech. The court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria rejected the appeal by 22-year-old Abdel...

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• Jailed Egypt blogger risks website-gagging appeals judge

  - 2007-03-11

  CAIRO AFP — The Egyptian judge, who chairs the court that is to hear a blogger's appeal against a four-year jail sentence that drew criticism from around the world, is seeking to gag 21 websites, a judicial source told AFP Sunday. The chairman of the appeals court in the...

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• Egypt jails dissident blogger for four years

  - 2007-02-22

  ALEXANDRIA, Egypt AFP — An Egyptian blogger was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak, triggering condemnation from international human rights groups. A court in the Mediterranean costal city of Alexandria sentenced Abdel Karim Suleiman to three years for insulting...

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• Rights group urges Egypt to drop charges against blogger

  - 2007-01-27

  CAIRO AFP — Human Rights Watch urged Egyptian authorities to immediately free a blogger who faces up to nine years in prison for having criticised the country's Islamic authorities. Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman, 22, known by his pen name Karim Amer, was detained on November 7 in the Mediterranean...

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