Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Egypt police seize book published by jailed blogger

Monday, May 5th, 2008

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s vice squad raided the offices of a publisher and blogger, already detained for backing a general strike last week, and took away copies of one of his publications, his fiancee said on Tuesday.

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Trial in Russia sends message to bloggers

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Savva Terentyev was blowing off some steam about the local police; now he’s a pawn in the nation’s Internet crackdown

 

SYKTYVKAR, Russia — Savva Terentyev doesn’t hide his disdain for police. The anger threading through a rant he posted on a friend’s blog made that clear. Bad cops, the young Russian songwriter wrote, should be taken to this city’s downtown plaza and burned alive.

Terentyev meant his remarks for a small circle of friends who vent on each other’s blogs. He had no idea local police were watching.

The blog on which Terentyev posted his message was run by Boris Suranov, a Syktyvkar journalist whose newspaper had irked local authorities. Police were regularly checking entries on the blog when they came across Terentyev’s posting.

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Saudis cuff ‘outspoken’ blogger

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Saudi authorities have confirmed they are holding an “outspoken” blogger for “purposes of interrogation”, the New York Times reports.

Fouad al-Farhan, 32, was cuffed on 10 December at his offices in Jidda, apparently because he “wrote about the political prisoners here in Saudi Arabia”, according to a letter posted on his blog. It explains that the powers that be “think I’m running an online campaign promoting their issue”, and adds: “All what I did is wrote some pieces and put side banners and asked other bloggers to do the same.”

Farhan says the authorities requested he “sign an apology”, but insists: “I’m not sure if I’m ready to do that. An apology for what? Apologizing because I said the government is liar when they accused those guys to be supporting terrorism?”

Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki told the New York Times that Farhan was “being questioned about specific violations of nonsecurity laws”. He added: “The violation is not a security matter. He is not being jailed. He is being questioned, and I don’t believe he will remain in detention long. They will get the information that they need from him and then they will let him go.”

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