Below is a blogpost published By Jillian York, on Friday, May 4, 2007, on the website of INTHEFRAY (a nonprofit organization that seeks to transcend geographic, political, and social boundaries, to defend endangered liberties and rights, and to demand justice, transparency, and opportunity.)
The case of Abdel-Monem Mahmoud, a blogger and member of the Muslim Brotherhood is the second of its kind in Egypt, a country where press freedom has greatly deteriorated in the past few years, according to a report released by the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) on May 3, International Press Freedom Day. The report, entitled “Backsliders,” listed Egypt in seventh place, after Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, DRC, Cuba and Pakistan. Following Egypt were Azerbaijan, Morocco, and Thailand.
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Below is an Interview I did with Abdel-Monem mahmoud at the 3rd annual Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, tow weeks before his arrest. It has been published on Global Voices on May, 3rd. Translated from Arabic by S.A and Fatima Azzahra El Azzouzi. It has been edited for clarity by Mary Joyce
As I promised in my last article “Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting”, I’m publishing here the translation of the interview I did with the jailed Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel-Monem Mahmoud at the 3rd annual Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, tow weeks before Monem’s arrest. Monem has been arrested on 15 April 2007 after reporting on torture in a video and in an article he called “The Fourth Anniversary of the Torture of Detainee #25” (available in English) and after using blogs as campaigning tools against the transferring of civilians to military tribunals in his “Blogs Against Military Rulers” (also available in English)
In this interview Monem spoke about his experiences as Brother blogger and the history of the use of Internet by the Muslim Brotherhood and its young generation. He also explained why, as Brother, he is supporting his fellow jailed blogger, the secular Kareem Amer and how the blogging is challenging traditional media in Egypt.
On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, few bloggers and activists from around the world have launched the Free Monem campaign making available for the Anglophone audience what Monem was blogging about and what sort of a person Monem is. “ We cannot let the regime succeed in silencing him. We have to show the Egyptian regime that when you imprison a blogger, you don’t silence his voice, you AMPLIFY it!” they wrote in their email announcement.
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Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk
PETITION FOR RELEASE OF BLOGGERS KAREEM AMER AND ABDUL-MONEIM MAHMUD
Six months after the arrest of Kareem Amer, Reporters Without Borders has started a petition calling for the blogger’s release and that of his colleague Abdul-Moneim Mahmud.
Internet-users are being asked to sign online, in which the worldwide press freedom organisation calls on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a conference organised under the UN mantle, to block Egypt from hosting the event in 2008 unless the two bloggers are freed.
Sign the petition : http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21993
Text of the petition:
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Screen Shot of the Lettera22 Web Site
Article paru dans “Il nuovo Riformista”, le 03 mai 2007 repris par Lettera22, site intalien de journalistes indépendants
FREE MONEM, IL CYBER-FRATELLO 3/5/07
In carcere da oltre due settimane il giornalista che in Egitto ha traghettato l’Ikhwan su Internet. La blogosfera egiziana si mobilita. Il mondo no (nella foto, il banner della petizione per liberare Abdel Monem Mahmoud, dal suo blog, ana-ikhwan.blogspot.com)
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