A number of Representatives just sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he pressures Egyptian President Mubarak to release Kareem. A copy of this letter found below:

Several friends of Kareem as well as his lawyers attempted to visit him recently but with no success. We are seriously concerned for his safety and demand that the Egyptian government intervenes by ensuring he is at least being treated decently with rights to see and communicate with visitors. We are unaware of whether or not latest letters from his supporters are reaching him, as several of them claim they’ve had no response despite previous communication with Kareem.

It’s bad enough that Egypt has insisted on keeping him imprisoned for the “crime” of practicing free speech on the internet, but the harsh treatment is unacceptable and will surely create further international outrage at the real crime, which is imprisoning and torturing an innocent blogger, a crime that the Egyptian government has refused to correct while toying with a young man’s life.

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Kareem’s case is still being used as a primary example of the government-led human rights violations against bloggers and has recently been mentioned in this round-up of other bloggers throughout the MENA region who have been harassed or are still imprisoned:

In 2007, Egyptian writer Kareem Amer was imprisoned for “insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak” on his blog. He is currently serving a four-year sentence at Borg Al-Arab prison outside Alexandria.

Read full article here.