Diana Mukkaled writes a very interesting piece featured in this week’s Asharq Alawsat, one of the most widely read newspapers in the Middle East, expressing her admiration for the likes of Kareem who are brave enough to blog where they have no freedom to:

Despite various crackdowns on bloggers in which they were subjected to bans, physical assault, detention and a four-year sentence in the case of blogger Abdel Karim Suleiman bloggers can pride themselves in knowing that their efforts have begun to bear fruit. Still, the road up ahead is a long one that is full of challenging obstacles.

Let us closely examine the vast outlet that the Internet provides, and how that matter has become one that concerns and disturbs various governments and states, which did not stop at blocking websites and furthermore sentenced bloggers to long prison terms.

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