First published February 7, 2011 CyberDissidents.org has just received word that Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, recently released after four years in prison, has disappeared.  Kareem is a member of CyberDissidents.org's blogger board and we are horrified at this news.  Last night around 11 pm Kareem left Tahrir square with a friend.  They were warned not to go through Kasr Elnil...

Here is an excerpt from Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey's post, which appeared on his website last night. Today started with two very important facts: 1) The Mass resignation of important Mubarak regime figures from their posts in the Ruling National Democratic Party, including his longtime crony Safwat ElSherif and his own son Gamal Mubarak; 2) The number of people who called me asking what...

Sand Monkey, an Egyptian blogger, had his website suspended. Totten, who knows the blogger, put up the activist's most recent post. The conclusion:  The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how he will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake protests urging him not to...

Hours ago, Egyptian authorities turned the Internet back on and CyberDissidents.org immediately reached out to several bloggers in the country to get their reaction to these unprecedented developments.  Blogger and pro-democracy activist Dalia Ziada said that the situation in Cairo is “very bad” and that she knows some of those injured in the recent clashes.  She described the scene...