Due to popular demand, we’ll be providing a weekly ‘digest’ containing the latest news on Kareem. We hope you find it useful!

Highlights:
A. Video & Pictures: Kareem Leaving Court & Getting Hit After Sentence (Quick link)
B. What’s New (Quick link)
C. Press & Media Coverage (Quick link)
D. Translation: What Kareem Said (Quick link)
E. Helping Kareem (Quick link)
F. Podcast (Quick link)
G. Insulting Islam in Egypt (Quick link)
H. Arab & Muslim Voices for Kareem (Quick link)
I. Blogosphere (Quick link)
J. Other Coverage (Quick link)

A. Video & Pictures: Kareem Leaving Court & Getting Hit After Sentence

- Video below shows Kareem leaving court room; he was heard being hit in the prisoners’ vehicle.
- Extremist lawyer and others cheer as Kareem enters prisoner vehicle.

More on this here.

B. What’s New

- AP: Kareem’s Appeal Court Hearing Set for March 12. The appeal can only decrease Kareem Amer’s sentence term.

- Kareem shortlisted for Index on Censorship Award.

C. Press & Media Coverage

Press:

- The Washington Post: Blogger on Ice.

- The Boston Globe: The Blogger and the Pharaoh

- The Daily News of Los Angeles : Imperiled bloggers best hope for free speech in Arab world.

- The Globe and Mail: Young blogger jailed in Egypt; chill envelops online dissent.

- Le Monde: (Click here for a full-scale image.)

- Asharq Alawsat: Arab Bloggers: Living in a Virtual World Behind Prison Bars!

- Mona ElTahawy: Threats unlikely to silence bloggers as Egypt jails youth for “insults”.

- CounterPunch: Egyptian Law Student Jailed for Blogging: Free Kareem Amir!

TV:

- Channel 4 News:

Warning: Disturbing scenes of tortured Egyptian prisoners is shown in this video. Click here to watch Channel 4 News: Egyptian Blogger Jailed.

- Al-Jazeera English: Listening Post:

D. Translation: What Kareem Said

- There Is No Deity but the Human Being – Posted on Kareem Amer’ blog on September 11, 2006.
HTML PDF Arabic

E. Helping Kareem

- Please donate through Paypal; donation link on the sidebar!

- Free Kareem Store.
This store is a great way to help spread awareness on Kareem’s case.

- Suggestions on helping Kareem, with thanks to Bridget Johnson.

- Modern Discussion: Solidarity Campaign for Kareem.
Kareem Amer regularly published his reformist articles on the Web site.

F. Podcast

- BlowOut with Constantino Diaz-Duran – Free Kareem Jailed Egyptian Blogger:

G. Insulting Islam in Egypt

Muslim members of the Free Kareem Coalition are deeply offended by the misrepresentation of their religion in Egypt, and look forward to condemning other incidents that are deemed contradictory to Islamic values:

1. Anti-Semitism on Egyptian television (link)
2. Misogyny & Gender Inequality in Court (link)

H. Arab & Muslim Voices for Kareem

- Yasmin Amin: The Crime of Obeying God! – Part 2

- Alt.Muslim: Muslims need to get involved

I. Blogosphere

- Boing Boing: Egypt: blogger Kareem Amer gets 4 years for insulting Islam

- Bloggers in Syria and Maghreb in Solidarity with Kareem.

J. Other Coverage
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Internet Freedom in the Middle East: Challenges for U.S. Policy.

- Afryka.org: uwolnić Kareem’a. (Poland)
Afryka.org is the first Web site on African issues in Poland.

- Positano News: Appello per Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman arrestato per un blog. (Italy)

- O Estado de São Paulo: Blogueiro pega quatro anos de prisão por criticar o Islã. (Brazil)