Friday, January 04, 2008

Blogging in the Arab World

Sad this - but a complaint about the detention of a blogger in Saudi from Mona. This kind of thing is becoming too common by half:

VELEN, Germany -- “If it’s longer than three days, I want this message to reach everyone. I don’t want to be forgotten in jail,” wrote Fouad al-Farhan, a 32 year-old Saudi, to a friend in anticipation of his detention. Now it's been almost a month since security forces picked him up at work, took him home to get his laptop, and then put him behind bars on December 10.Farhan’s “crime”: Blogging.

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