Committee to Protect Bloggers :: Abdolkarim Freed

Committee to Protect Bloggers :: Abdolkarim Freed: "From Abdolkarim:

"(I have been released) after 18 days, six of them spent at Alexandria State Securit office of AlFarana, and 12 in Tora Farm Prison in Cairo. I am fine now and cannot but thank everyone who stood next to me, either friends or people who have never known me, but are my brothers in humanity even though we may not necessarily agree intellectually. I am deeply thankful for them and wish them the best. I promise to write soon about my stay at the Tora Farm Prison and the people I met there."

This is fantastic news and a triumph, however qualified, for free speech in general and in Egypt specifically. It may not have happened without the efforts of Manal and Alaa (who recently won the Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs Award) and Amr. "