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.
