When a thirty-looking regime monolithic afraid of a twenty year old "internett" and his fellow freak, perhaps it is time to doubt the stability and keep listening to perceive the creaks.
Especially since the young man in question, Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, 26, one Egyptian blogger to have served a prison sentence (four years) for his writings on the web, highly regarded as defamatory against President Hosni Mubarak and faith Islam, no longer seems able to harm anyone.
But, obviously, to rot in prison last November 5 Burg El Arab, Alexandria, Egypt, was judged insufficient by the authorities: Abdel Kareem, according to reconstructions of the independent press and organizations for the protection of human rights, was quickly recapture by Egyptian secret services, who were arrested without new charges notified (but this is nothing new in a country where, since 1981 , martial law applies) and thrown in jail for 12 days.
Until 17 November, when the family was able to embrace the rough draft of their loved one. In those 10 extra days of "rehabilitation", the blogger has received a clear message: you are free, but do not you dare open your mouth ever again.
At the time of her diary on the net, Nabil wrote with the nom de plume Kareem Amer and ridiculed the flaws of the government, conservative Islam, which has taken hold in the country over the past twenty years, and the mosque of Al Azhar University, where he studied law.
institution of the millennial point of reference for all the Sunnis in the world, Kareem Amer said: "The University of terrorism." And then: "Muslims revealed their true scary face, showing the world that are brutal, barbaric and inhuman."
The judge who sentenced him reported another blogger's comment subversive: the prophet Mohammed and his followers are "" pouring "blood."
And it was this his anti-Islamist stance, with tones unprecedented, for having made it vulnerable: it was limited to criticism of the regime, Kareem Amer was found cross-party consensus in opposition, secular and religious. It probably would have remained in prison a few weeks, without stop, as a warning. What happened to his other "colleagues" of dissidents on the web.
speak ill of the religion but not really. Admitting that there is a problem, "Islamic fundamentalism" is not everything. Moreover, the play may have against the entries in a country where, in the heart of the capital, a year ago looking for a prestigious ice "committed, only men, practicing Muslims? Since November
2006, the date of his first arrest, Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman has received the support of many international symbols, such as Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, who considered his actions in the network and those of other Egyptian bloggers a form of journalism in all respects, who lived on the ground, high information content because it free.
As those of Wael Abbas (misrdigital.blogspirit.com) Nawara Negm (tahyyes.blogspot.com), Alaa Abd El Fatah and his wife Manal (www.manalaa.net), Rehab Bassam (www.rehabbassam.com) Yasser Thabet (yasser-best.blogspot.com) Zeinobia (egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com), or "aggregators" Omraneya (www.omraneya.net) Baheyya (baheyya.blogspot.com), The Egyptian blog (theegyptblog.blogspot.com).
The topics covered by the report, "Flower" with a season of renewed political activism in 2004-2005, the most varied and intertwined with each other (art, culture, society, politics, religion), but it is obvious on the Web have found that natural vent all those whose views are censored in everyday life. At school, college, work, into a mosque in the family.
Not to mention those born in specific occasions, for example, the strike of the cotton mill workers in Mahalla El Kubra, the largest in the Middle East, holed up inside the plant surrounded by the army and in contact with the world only through the web.
In just over five years, bloggers have reported and documented cases of corruption, torture, sexual discrimination, sectarian violence like never before. Aroused heated debates in public and then disappear into the network, sometimes identified by intelligence agencies and more often not.
Now, ten days before the election for the renewal of the People, the lower house of Egyptian Parliament, while the U.S. press on the Cairo to accept the presence of international observers to monitor the transparency of the vote, the regime led by Hosni Mubarak, 82, gives signals of hardening: refuses, through official channels and the national press, any foreign interference in its policy, is to stop prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the only true opposition movement capable of challenging the absolute power of the National Democratic Party (NDP) ; hinders political rallies and debates, or they "padded" by intelligence agents in plain clothes.
and free is an internationally known blogger (for Abdel Kareem associations have mobilized U.S., British, French, Swedish), but twenty years old and terrified.
The situation for dissidents, it could get worse next year as we approach the elections presidential. The vote could ratify the 2011 transfer of power by the President, who is finishing a fifth consecutive term, and a successor, perhaps son Gamal, perhaps a senior NDP.
why are the laws of the November 28 opening of a season by the outcome anything but certain.
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