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...

Torture, imprisonment, repression of dissent, murder, disappearances - as the Egyptian regime teeters, dissidents and bloggers look back on three decades of abuses. Pundits and politicians shout “Better the devil you know!” as Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak’s regime nears collapse. Mubarak is hailed for not waging war on Israel, allowing some space for civil society, and permitting...

The director of CyberDissidents.org -- an organization that describes itself as “supporting human liberty by promoting the voices of online dissidents” -- told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the much-touted stability of the Mubarak regime was little more than a facade. “There is nothing stable about an impoverished, illiterate, repressive, dysfunctional...

This week, CyberDissidents.org’s analysis of events in Egypt and Tunisia was featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, PBS NewsHour, Reuters, Voice of America, Bloomberg (radio, TV and print), Washington Examiner, National Review, and a CNN-affiliate. Click below to watch the Bloomberg TV interview.