Many thanks to Bidjan Tobias Nashat from the Hertie School of Governance for making this rally possible and for organizing the much needed event. Thanks a lot!

(Thanks to Amnesty for the above pictures.)

UPDATE (May 9, 2007):
Amnesty’s coverage on the event is published here: Mahnwache für inhaftierten ägyptischen Blogger. (Hat tip: Bidjan)

Many thanks to Andrew Perraut, our London Coordinator, who also notes:

…the Embassy staff were watching us carefully again and many of them passed by us several times to read the signs. We even had a few people stop to honk their horns in a show of support or tell us that they hoped Kareem was freed soon. His profile is definitely higher than it was during the last rally.

Thanks Andrew for making this rally possible!

Thanks to Anca Bogdana Rusu and Olga Nicoara for their hard work on making this rally possible, and for sending us the pictures below!

This is a note from the organizer:

Thanks to Olga who put a lot of time and effort into getting the authorization from the City Hall, the Free Karrem Bucharest rally went according to the plan. We were not many but we were passionate about our mission. At 11 a.m. in front of the Egyptian Embassy here in Romania we gathered ready for “fight”, armed with fliers, letters to the ambassador ready to be signed (thanks again to Olga’s devoted work) and last but not least flowers we began. We gave fliers and flowers to people passing by, in an attempt to raise public awareness about Kareem’s case.

The choice for flowers was justified by 2 reasons: first of all to make it clear ours was a peaceful, respectful manifestation, that we mean no harm, just trying to help one of our friends, secondly it is so much more difficult for people to say no when you hand them a flower along with a flier (Horia called it bribery, I prefer to call it successful marketing strategy)….and it did work, most people we spoke to agreed to sign our petition and many also promised to sign the online one. Next week, after we gather more signatures we plan to send them all to the Egyptian Embassy.

Our only hope is that this work manages in some way to help Kareem and to bring him some comfort by showing him he’s not alone and people around the world do care about him and his faith.

Thank you,
Anca

We are extremely proud of their efforts and for this meaningful rally which helped us send a very positive and urgent message to Egypt.

Pictures below:

Many thanks to Henrik Alexandersson, one of the speakers at the rally, for these pictures. We are expecting more from the organizers and fellow protestors!

Rally organizer Jonas carries a sign that translates to “Honk your horn for freedom of speech!”

Johan Norberg speaks out for Kareem.

Stefan Geens, who lives in Egypt.

Member of parliament Henrik von Sydow of the Moderata Samlingspartiet party.

Many thanks to Jonas Virdalm for organizing this rally, who also adds:

There were 6 policemen there watching us and they did not bother to report us. So it was a good demonstration for a good cause.

Thank you so much for making all of this possible! We are very happy that the Stockholm were, as per usual, a great success.

UPDATES (April 30)

1. More pictures here.

2. Videos galore!

Many thanks to our friends in DC who made this rally possible! Special thanks to Knud Edmund Berthelsen for helping out with the organization of this rally.

Here are the pictures:

More pictures available on Flickr!

Many thanks to our good friends at the Liberal Alliance who helped us by rallying for Kareem’s cause and the cause of human rights in general!

A rally was held in front of the Egyptian embassy in Athens where a petition for Kareem’s release was handed to the ambassador.

Special thanks to Fotis Perlikos for organizing the rally as well as providing us with pictures. Thank you so much!