For our friends and supporters in India (please click on the photo for the larger and clearer document.) The translation is of this post.

We would like to thank our friend Sandeep for providing this translation!

More information about Kareem in Hindi can be found here.

Kareem has been arrested since November 6th, 2006. He is about to spend his 600th day in prison! We are planning an event for this day and hope that you will all be involved.

Here are the details.

Date: Saturday, the 28th of June
Occasion: Day 600 for Kareem in prison!
Theme: Increase awareness for Kareem in prison, and get in touch with him!

How you can get involved:

On the 28th, dedicate a post on your blog/website to Kareem.

You can do this in two ways:

Option 1: Write a post/letter directly to or about Kareem. Make people aware of what Kareem is going through. Express your opinions or concerns over the fact that he is still in prison just for sharing his personal views on radical Islam, extremism within Al Azhar, and the president of Egypt.

Option 2: Write about something controversial, fearlessly, the same way as Kareem did (whether be it about free speech, human rights, religious freedom, political rights, et al) and then dedicate this post to him.

You may also choose to directly write to Kareem using the following address:

Prisoner Abdul Kareem Nabil Suleiman
Alexandria
Borg Al-Arab Prison
Room 1 Section 22
The Arab Republic of Egypt

Please attach the Arabic address on your letter:

Originally sent to this blogger:

First in Arabic, followed by an English translation -

بعيش يومين شكلهم مش حيتكرروا بسبب إن معايا مجموعة من المعتقلين على ذمة أحداث 6 أبريل
معظمهم ناس مثقفة و عندها قضية مؤمنة بيها بجد بعضهم أفرج عنهم و الباقي منتظرين قرار الإفراج ساعات بأفكر بيني و بين نفسي يعني
كان لازم يجوا هنا عشان يحسروني على الأيام اللي قعدوها معايا لما يمشوا
للمرة الأولى من ساعة ما غتحبست ألاقي في السجن ناس قريبن مني فكريا على الأقل إحتمال يفرج عنهم الأيام الجاية و هابقى انا لوحدي كما كنت في الاول.

أنا نفسي أخرج ….كل ما اشوف الناس بتروح بقول إمتى حيجي اليوم اللي أروح فيه زيهم أنا عملت إيه عشان أتحبس المدة الطويلة اوي اوي
أنا عمري ما حسيت في يوم من الأيام اللي قضتها في السجن إني إرتكبت جريمة أستاهل عليها إني أتسجن معنى كده ان الغرض من عقابي ما بقاش له معنى
لأن السجن ما قدرش يغير فيا أي حاجة و لا عمرة حيغير

أنا عندي هنا جوابات كتيرة وصلوا 2300 جواب أنا بفرح أوي لما توصلني جوابات بأبقى حاسس إن لسه فيه حد فاكرني لاني احيانا في ناس هنا لما يحبوا يضيقوني يقولوا لي خلاص ما حدش فاكرك و لا فاكر

قضيتك دي كانت وقت و إنتهى و الدنيا نسيتك ساعات الكلام ده بيضيقني بس لما أبص على الجوابات ت الكتير أوي اللي ملياه الاوضة بسخر بيني و بين نفسي من الكلام ده لأن الدليل الحي قدامي
موجود م مشاركني جزء من الأوضة اللي انا عايش فيها
نفس يجي يوم الاقي نفسي خارج الشرنقة اللي أنا محبوس فيها دي

كريم عامر
عنوان كريم أهه إكتبوا له:
سجن برج العرب الإحتياطي عنبر 22 غرفة 1
الإسكندريه

English:

I am living through some decent days here which I know will not last. I have several activists with me who were detained during the strike on the 6th of April in Egypt. They are people like me. They are educated, and staunch believers in certain values which they are fighting for.

Some of these people are out now, and the others are waiting to be released. Sometimes I wonder if the reason why they’re here in the first place is to make me more sad when they leave me alone in the dark.

This is the first time since I’ve been in prison that I meet people who are intellectually similar to me, but they will soon be released and I will be lonely again.

I wish I can get out of here. Every time I witness people being released from prison to go back to their homes, I wonder when it’s time for me to also leave. I never did anything worthy of this punishment. I’ve been here for so long, and throughout my detainment, I was never convinced that I ever committed a crime. Their punishment is not effective. This prison never changed my mind, and it never will.

I got 2,300 messages from all over the world. I feel ecstatic every time I receive a letter. I feel that people didn’t forget about me. Sometimes, the prisoners here mock me and try to hurt me by telling me that people forgot about my existence, but when I look at all of these letters that I have in my cell… I don’t care about what the prisoners are saying, because I have concrete evidence with me proving them wrong.

I just wish I could get out of here.

Kareem Amer
Borg el Arab prison, Section 22 Cell 1
Alexandria, Egypt

You may write to Kareem at the above address.