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Policy of kidnapping Egyptian Internet activists returns, after it stopped for a month The growing phenomenon of impunity in Egypt Security encourages more criminal practices

  • Policy of kidnapping Egyptian Internet activists returns, after it stopped for a month

    The growing phenomenon of impunity in Egypt

    Security encourages more criminal practices

Egypt detains Internet activist | Reuters

  • Rami al-Sweisy, a member of the Sixth of April Youth, was detained on Monday by security agents who went to his home and seized his computer, mobile phone and wallet.
  • t was the third detention in less than a month of an Internet activist in Egypt and came as the movement called for a national day of protest on April 6, the anniversary of clashes between police and workers in a Nile Delta textile town in 2008.
23 Apr 09

International Pen: EGYPT: Internet writer Kareem Amer ill treated >>

  • The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is seriously concerned for the well-being of Internet writer Kareem Amer following reports that he has been ill-treated in detention at Borg Alarab prison, where he is serving his four-year sentence.
  • , Amer is in a poor state of health and continues to be ill-treated in jail.
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