Free Kareem! - Channel 4 News Video: Egyptian Blogger Jailed

British television station Channel 4 reports on Kareem Amer’s imprisonment, and discusses the struggle between Arab bloggers and their leaders in the Middle East.

Warning: Disturbing scenes of tortured Egyptian prisoners is shown in this video.

(If Internet Explorer acts strangely and crashes, as has happened with myself, try watching with Mozilla Firefox.)

Click here to watch Channel 4 News: Egyptian Blogger Jailed

UPDATE: Now on YouTube as well:

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Posted In: Freedom of speech, Press, Video

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Maghreb bloggers condemn the imprisonment of an Egyptian blogger
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Many bloggers were disheartened by the sentencing of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer to four years in prison… … Read the full survey:
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/blog/2007/02/28/feature-02

أعلام التدوين المغاربي ينددون بسَجن مدوّن مصري
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شعر العديد من أصحاب التدوين بخيبة أمل من نبأ الحكم على المدوّن المصري كريم عامر بالسجن لأربع سنوات.
متابعة…:
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/ar/features/awi/blog/2007/02/28/feature-02

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