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Kareem Amer, Egyptian blogger serving four years in prison. Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger who died in prison, 2009. Sina Motallebi, Iranian journalist based in London. Ahmid Maher, formed a Facebook group to promote civil disobedience. Kareem Amer, Egyptian blogger serving four years in prison. Karim El-Beheiry, Egyptian Blogger arrested on April 6, 2008, for allegedly instigating a riot and damaging public property at Mahalla. We must break this wall of fear. Otherwise we don't deserve our freedom. - Syrian cyber-dissident Suhair Atassi Syrian cyber-dissident Mohammed Al-Jasem. Currently facing 18 years in prison on charges of instigating to overthrow the regime and dismantle the foundations of Kuwaiti society.

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Kareem Arabji Kareem Arabji
Country: Syria
Status: Free
Blog: http://www.akhawia.net http://www.akhawia.net
Kareem Arabji
Kareem Arabji is a 31 year old business consultant who helps manage the online youth forum . Kareem was also the supervisor of Al Mabar Al Hur, a section within akhawia.net dedicated to free ideas; he wrote numerous articles using a pseudonym...

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A Syrian Dissident's Perspective
By: Ahed al Hendi
A Syrian Dissident's Perspective
On March 6, 2010, Suhair Atassi, one of Syria’s most prominent democratic dissidents, was given an ultimatum by General Zuhair al Hamad, head of Syrian State security: either shut down her Facebook discussion forum or face two and a half years in prison.  “I feel an internal peace,” Atassi told me by phone as she packed her bags for prison. As a former political prisoner jailed and...

Country In Focus

Syria Syria In Focus

Syrian dissidents under renewed attack
By: Ahed Al Hendi

Syria
After completing a 30 month sentence in prison, Ali Al-Abdullah packed up his belongings, said his goodbyes, and promptly found himself re-arrested. Abdullah was arrested in December 2007 after he and 163 dissidents organized a meeting in which they called for democratic peaceful change in Syria....

Current Campaign

Protest Arrest and Trial of Kuwaiti Blogger Protest Arrest and Trial of Kuwaiti Blogger
Protest Arrest and Trial of Kuwaiti Blogger
Mohammed Abdulqader Al-Jasem, a prominent Kuwaiti lawyer, journalist and blogger, was imprisoned on May 11 for criticizing his country’s government. Al-Jasem, 54, has published six books on democracy and Middle Eastern politics and served as editor of Newsweek Arabic, Arab Reform Bulletin, and Al-Watan Daily. The charges against Al-Jasem include "instigating to overthrow the regime and dismantle the foundations of Kuwaiti society"...

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