Kareem featured on Scoop
June 18th, 2007Kareem’s case was recently featured on Scoop by way of an Amnesty press release.
Putting The Boot Into Internet Repression -
Students will be mobilising their communities to seek the release of two cyber-dissidents: - Chinese journalist Shi Tao, currently serving 10 years in prison for sending an e-mail from his Yahoo! Account. (Yahoo! supplied information to the Chinese government that helped to convict Shi Tao.) - Egyptian student blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman (pseudonym Kareem Amer), imprisoned this year for writing a blog criticizing his university and the Egyptian President.
“Amnesty’s worldwide campaign against internet repression, ‘Irrepressible.info’, is a perfect match for our irrepressible students,” says Margaret Taylor. “They are already planning a range of innovative and powerful events, including an action based on rock-climbing and an attempt to symbolically overcome the ‘great firewall of Chin’ that Chinese authorities are erecting around the internet in their country.”
