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Monday, 8 May 2006
First of all, Thank you so much for all of you who have sent out e-mails for Alaa's release already and thanks for all of the bloggers who linked . God bless every single one of you. We are currently working on getting banners made. It shouldn't be long till we have them on display. It's just a matter of time.
Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days "pending investigation", which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. Him and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. This is why we aim to get them out of there as soon as possible, so that even if they do end up serving the entire 15 days- which they won't have to if the government gets pressured- they ndon;t end up serving an extra day after that. No one deserves this happening to them, especially for exercising their right to free speech.
Currently there are about 48 detained , 6 of them are bloggers, and 3 of them are women.The most known of them is Alaa, which makes him the posterboy of this campaign, but getting them out is equally as important. Egypt has less than 830 bloggers all in all, and 6 are so far gone, and amongst them one of Egypt's most highly profiled one. This is by no means a co-incidence. The Government agents handpicked them from amongst the protesters and they knew who they were. They have been wanting to get Alaa for a long time now, precisely because he is high profile, and because he helps organizes the protests and spread the information through the aggregator he runs. With him gone, Aggregator could shut down without his maintenance, the other bloggers get too scared to be active and find no way to organize and reach one other. It's of vital importance that he gets released ASAP.
This is why, we are gonna urge you to contact the state department as well as the egyptian embassies. We have informed the US state department people of what's going on, and as the media blitz that we have planned takes place, they will have something to back up their demands on the egyptian government. But some public outrage (or encouragment if you will) from you guys should push them to act faster. Here is their contact information:
State Department contact information:
Address:
US Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard: 202-647-4000
URL to send email:
http://contact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=We6SaX6i&p_lva=&p_sp=&p_li=
Site with information on contacting your congressional representatives (in
the US):
http://www.ams.org/government/howto.html
As for the Egyptian embassy in DC, the information is right here:
The contact information for the Egyptian embassy is below:
The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3521 International Ct. NW
Washington DC 20008
Phone (202) 895 5400
Fax (202) 244 5131
(202) 244 4319
Email: embassy@egyptembdc.org
And the one in Canada is right here:
Embassy of the Arab Republic
of Egypt
454 Laurier Ave. East
Ottawa, ON K1N 6R3
Tel (613) 234-4931
Fax (613) 234-9347
www.egyptembassy.ca
egyptemb@sympatico.ca
Here are some E-mail templates you can use when sending out e-mails for Alaa's release (Thasnks Tommy and Meg):
Dear such-and-such,
I am writing you concerning what I consider to be a serious infraction
against the human and civil rights of one your countrymen.
A citizen of your country, Alaa Abd El-Fatah, was arrested at a demonstration
in Cairo on May 7th, 2006, alongside a
group of his colleagues. He was demonstrating peacefully along with other activists
against attempts to reduce the independence of the judiciary in Egypt.
As an American, living in a country that places a high premium on freedoms of
speech and assembly, I find the detention of him and his colleagues to be
outrageous and unacceptable.
I want to make it absolutely clear to your country that I intend to
follow up on this matter by contacting the White House and my representatives
in Congress to support suspension of the approximately $2 billion in annual aid
the United States currently provides Egypt. Also, I will not be visiting, and I
will discourage others from visiting, Egypt
as a tourist until this matter is resolved.
I would like to see this matter resolved as quickly as possible and
without developing into a possible diplomatic incident. I hope you will
seriously reconsider your actions in detaining this man and others like him.
Alaa Abd El-Fatah was exercising rights that Americans insist are innate,
God-given, and not subject to interference or suppression by human governments.
Sincerely,
blah-blah-blah
Or
Dear
I am writing concerning the arrest and detention of the
Egyptian
writer/blogger Alaa Abdel El Fatah (Alaa Ahmed Seif El Islam) and 7
others, named below. I was very distressed to hear of this, to say
the least. I thought Egypt
was trying to become a modern country, but
when tactics like these are employed against a simple protest, it
reminds one how disappointingly far Egypt
is from true freedom. I
hope to hear soon of the release of Mr. El Fatah and his fellow
detainees; I would really hate to have to write to my congressman, my
senators, the secretary of state, and the president, and for my
husband to write to his member of parliament, the minister for
foreign affairs, and the prime minister here in Canada, but of course
we're quite ready to do so. I appreciate your attention to this matter.
Sincerely yours,
Update: Kat has more templates here.
More to come later….
May 8th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Sandmonkey, thank you for taking the initiative and using this blog as a medium to help people who need all the help they can get.
Your position as one of the most highly read blogs from the Middle East is crucial at a time like this, and your endless database of readers will hopefully side by you and get things going.
Just continue to keep us updated, and let us know how we can pressurize the Egyptian government directly, instead of having to go through our own governments, or the US government in particular.
This is insane.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:24 am
I agree..we need to identify ways to pressure the Egyptian governemnt directly. the politics of the thing are very complicated, and I doubt the US government is still serious about reform here…
still thinking of a way, though…anybody share!
May 8th, 2006 at 11:37 am
[...] Sandmonkey, Freedom, Big Pharaoh, and everyone else around here are sounding the horn about the jailing yesterday of 48 individuals who were demonstrating peacefully on the judicial independence issue yesterday near the Egyptian Museum and then were carted off to jail, where it seems that they will be held for at least the next 15 days. The most prominent person jailed is Anaa of “Manal and Anaa’s Bit Bucket,” one of the country’s most trafficked blogs, and included on my own Middle East-her list. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 11:45 am
I just sent off one email to the embassy in DC. I will send more later this day. Right now I am getting ready to attend the funeral of a US soldier who was killed while fighting for freedom in Iraq. I will be offering condolences to his wife and three children. Freedom is not free.
Please stay safe yourself, Sam.
Blessings to you….
May 8th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I have written about this story in my blog, calling Israelis to write the Egyptian embassy.
http://www.notes.co.il/hanan/18944.asp
I think it’s a simple act of solidarity and good neighborhood.
Good luck to all.
Hanan
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May 8th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Mine were out last night and I posted them
http://themiddleground.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-swarm-egyptian-blogger-arrested.html
May 8th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
The website address for the Canadian embassy has a typo. (Sandmonkey must have lifted it from my post, cause it’s the same typo I made.) You all need to take the third “s” out of embasssy.ca.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Hanan, I work with a project that is doing work with the Ministry of Justice, and have asked around, and Egyptian employees here tell me that it is possible that your kind act of solidarity may backfire - i.e., if the Egyptian government gets e-mails from Israel they will use them as a further pretext to transfer them from tora to State Security where they will be even harder to get out. I think it is great that you want to help. By the way there is a very good peace site run by an Israeli guy that you may want to get involved in if you are not already, it is called ‘Mideastweb” and his name is Ami Isseroff. You’ll find it easily through google, I lost the link at the moment.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Ok, can anyone read hebrew and inform Hannan of Anna’s point?
May 8th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Great work on the coverage and the initiative SM, hopefully it won’t be too long before he’s free again
May 8th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I applaud the effort, and I’m participating as well, but I think it’s a bit “Western” of us to assume that any of those arrested have a presumption of a right of free speech where they live. That’s why I think that in addition to directing our efforts at Egyptian authorities, we might consider pressuring OUR government officials to eliminate our tax-funded finacial support of countries where freedom of speech is not a constitutionally guranteed right.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
[...] Alaa and the other who were arrested with him will now be kept for 15 days "pending investigations". This doesn't mean they will be released after this period. The police can always renew it. They can always do anything. The Sandmonkey has more: Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days "pending investigation", which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. Him and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. This is why we aim to get them out of there as soon as possible, so that even if they do end up serving the entire 15 days- which they won't have to if the government gets pressured- they ndon;t end up serving an extra day after that. No one deserves this happening to them, especially for exercising their right to free speech. Posted by BP at 1:39 pm [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
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This is freaking beautiful- a rainbow in Missouri: Awesome (click pic for full-size). See more here Link via SandMonkey, who you should be reading every day……
May 8th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Rainbow
This is freaking beautiful- a rainbow in Missouri: Awesome (click pic for full-size). See more here Link via SandMonkey”, who you should be reading every day……
May 8th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
In addition to writing to the State Department via the form SM linked to, it may be helpful to address letters specifically to David Welch, Assistant Secertary and head of the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
I found that they have a specific email address set up for Egypt: nea-ela@state.gov
May 8th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Brothers N sisters… sorry I reached the scene late… I am in all the waaaaaaaaaay baby ! ALL THE FREAKING WAY…!
May 8th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Hey SM,
I already designed some banners that are ready for use. This IS war and let’s put to test the people power blog theory.
May 8th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
not that the state particulary respects the rule of law, but to clarify matters to Rich; the Egyptian constitution (with all its flaws) DOES guranttee freedom of speech to every Egyptian citizen:
Art.41: Individual freedom is a natural right not subject to violation except in cases of flagrante delicto. No person may be arrested, inspected, detained or have his freedom restricted in any way or be prevented from free movement except by an order necessitated by investigations and the preservation of public security. This order shall be given by the competent judge or the Public Prosecution in accordance with the provisions of the law.
Art.42: Any citizen arrested, detained or whose freedom is restricted shall be treated in a manner concomitant with the preservation of his dignity. No physical or moral harm is to be inflicted upon him. He may not be detained or imprisoned except in places defined by laws organizing prisons. If a confession is proved to have been made by a person under any of the aforementioned forms of duress or coercion, it shall be considered invalid and futile.
Art.47: Freedom of opinion shall be guaranteed. Every individual shall have the right to express his opinion and to publicise it verbally, in writing, by photography or by other means of expression within the limits of the law. Self criticism and constructive criticism shall guarantee the safety of the national structure.
Art.54: Citizens shall have the right to peaceful and unarmed private assembly, without the need for prior notice. Such private meetings should not be attended by security men. Public meetings, processions and gatherings shall be allowed within the limits of the law.
Article 54 is especially funny. Of course all those articles of the CONSTITUTION are overruled by a LAW (emergency law)!! which doesnt make any sense…
For all its worth, their detention is a constitutional violation as well!!
(not that there is anything practical about this comment!)
May 8th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Arrested Blogger Needs Help - Urgent Action Requested!
Urgent action from readers and fellow bloggers is needed to help an Egyptian blogger that has been arrested in Egypt.
May 8th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
This is very good of you to do, Sam.
May 8th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Egypt Has Arrested a Blogger
Do something.
May 8th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
All right! Michelle Malkin posted the story:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005147.htm
I don’t know if she got my email or if she came across the story on PJ Media or Instapundit, but it is good either way.
May 8th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Writing letters is fine and all BUT, the whole idea of arresting protesters and jailing them is to scare the rest . So the best way is to just keep protesting, go out there with more banners and more reasons to protest. Of course they will arrest more people but as we’ve seen so far, the more they arrest the more they piss people off and in the process they’re actually promoting dissent. They really are stupid!
Unfortunately I can not be with you to protest until the end of may.
Good luck
May 8th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
I shot Khalidah an email yesterday too. Apparently, from what it sounds like, a few others of you did the same. Great, because she posted the story:
http://anolita.jeeran.com/mind/archive/2006/5/46884.html
May 8th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Sent Hyscience an email very late last night. They’ve go the story up now too:
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/05/arrested_blogge_1.php
May 8th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Hey, this place has become ‘Alaa activism’ central. We should all think of a place to go and meet up again if something should happen to SMs blog? Where in the blogosphere should we meet to try and coordinate things if we need to? (It shouldn’t be an Egyptian site, either.)
Any suggestions?
May 8th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
[...] The Egyptian blogger arrested over the weekend. Rantings of a Sandmonkey has all the latest news and contact information, along with several handy letter templates for people who need a model for an effective letter. (That's not a bad thing, some people are better at correspondence than others. I always had a template book around when I was first starting out in the world.) [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Email I just sent to the US State Department - let’s see if I get a response.
A group of peaceful demonstrators in Egypt were recently arrested. They were demonstrating against the recent regime crack-down on the independence of the Judiciary. The arrested include Blooger Alaa, a prominent free-speech advocate in the Egyptian blogoshpere. Our government has committed itself to help promote true democracy in that nation. There is no democracy without the right to peaceful protest. What is our government doing to help rectify this situation?
May 8th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Ok, can anyone read hebrew and inform Hannan of Anna’s point?
Sorry, Sandy.
Best I can do is *read* the words, don’t actually know what they all mean.
May 8th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
מצרים
That’s Egypt, though.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
[...] The original arrests were as a result of a campaign to keep the Egyptian judges independent of the executive authority which was interfering in their work. If you are not an egyptian, SandMonkey has a letter template that you can use it with some modifications and send it to the egyptian embassy in your country. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
These seditionists knew what the law was and they chose to break it, thereby committing a crime under Egyptian law. Now they must suffer the consequences of their actions.
These people are without doubt agents of the American Crusaders and their Zionist masters. In many other Islamic countries they would already have received the death penalty for their treason and apostasy.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Sam, obviously Israeli “help” will backfire. But is there anything I can do? I’m very active on Dutch blogs. But you mentioned only US & Canadian addresses to forward protests to…
Tse.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Tormentas en Egipto
As se ve El Cairo en mitad de una tormenta de arena, como la que se produjo este fin de semana. Sobre otras tormentas: Cairo clamps down on dissent. The Guardian. Las promesas reformistas del Gobierno de Mubarak se…
May 8th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary’s branch fight for independence.
…..
These people are without doubt agents of the American Crusaders and their Zionist masters. In many other Islamic countries they would already have received the death penalty for their treason and apostasy.
….
Are we reading the same story?
These seditionists knew what the law was and they chose to break it,
Is it illegal to stand up for something in Egypt? Is it morally wrong to want freedom in Egypt? I fail to see how the US or Israel have any bearing on Egyptians wanting freedom in Egypt for other Egyptians.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Although it should be done - I imagine that appeals to official US agencies are likely to fall on deaf ears since the Bush administration subcontracts to Egypt to arrange interrogation under torture when it would be too sensitive on native soil. They are hardly likely to criticise the folk who are providing part of their “Extraordinary Rendition Program” facilities. We have been trying hard to get a dialog with them (the US) about European citizens who have been clandestinely kidnapped from their home countries and transported to Egypt for “interrogation” - but are stonewalled by the usual State Department lawyers. I’m sure they’ll do the same on this one.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
I wholeheartedly agree with unAmerican Muslim…except for the part where he said everything.
Ready for the kicker:
“American Crusaders and their Zionist masters”
I forgot that the US sent a force of 50,000 marines to the Holy Land in 1099 AD. Or maybe that’s just a reference to the liberation of two muslim countries by the greatest civilization/empire/superpower history has ever seen? Dunno.
But a REAL American, I take it as a compliment when referred to as a “Crusader” Do you think Americans of sound mind find that insulting? The only think I find insulting is your ignorant post and incredible lack of compassion. Too sad for you.
American Crusader
May 8th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
#32 American Muslim:
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. had to break the law in order to obtain civil rights for blacks. The law is not the end all and be all of human life. Especially when it violates principles that our country’s founding fathers considered to be mandatory and non-negotiable for all people; immune from earthly governments.
If you don’t understand that, please make yourself a non-American Muslim.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
These people are Egyptian citizens who were arrested in Egypt by Egyptian police for violations of Egyptian law. Yet somehow citizens of countries that are notorious for their violations of international law, who unilaterally attack and occupy Muslim lands that present no threat to (much less any actions against) their countries, and who brutally torture and murder innocent men, women, and children, feel constrained to criticize Egypt for actions which are undeniably internal affairs.
I repeat: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Please don’t respond to Anti-American Muslim from here on out. Let us keep focused at the task at hand. Anti-American Muslim wants to turn this thread into a forum for his platitudes about America. I don’t know or care who he is, but he is engaging in eee-style tactics. Do us all a favor and just ignore him, would you? Thanks a ton.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Ditto Tommy, Couldn’t have said it better myself.
i need to ask one question though ?
what can people here in Egypt who dont know Alaa or the other detainees personally do to help ?
i got alot of friends and people i know willing to support, but i dont know how can we do it ?
if there’s any method i’m not aware of that we can help please tell me.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
what can people here in Egypt who dont know Alaa or the other detainees personally do to help ?
I would ask Sandmonkey more about this, he might know more about what is going on in Egypt itself.
I would also say that it couldn’t hurt to email the US State Department about the matter. The more pressure the better, even if coming from abroad.
A few other notes:
Freedom for Egyptians notes that “Journalist without Borders” and “Human Rights Watch” are both reporting on the situaton.
Also, something has already appeared in the Guardian (major UK paper):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,1770311,00.html
It looks like the issue may start getting some mainstream media attention, which is great.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Fuck yeah!
LGF finally came up with the story:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20446&only
May 8th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
[...] - URGENT ACTION NEEDED! — Blog Swarm: Egyptian Blogger Arrested. Act now for freedom! … (Sandmonkey, etc.) [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
i’ve asked all my friends who live abroad to send emails and to tell as many people they know,
but there has to be something more people here can do other than tell their friends who arent here to send emails.
to SM :
is there any organization or official we can contact here as Egyptians to help out ?? i asked the question before in general but i meant to address it for u since i thought u would know about something like this if there was, or at least u could look into it.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
feel constrained to criticize Egypt for actions which are undeniably internal affairs.
ah yes, the hypocracy abounds. Tell me, was Jyllands-Posten and international news paper or purely a domestic and therefore INTERNAL one that Muslims across the world decided to dip their fingers into to riot, but burn, kill, and threaten along the way?
Funny how when the west does something, it’s automatically subjected to the scrutiny of Muslims, but if Muslims do something - like, ya know, slaughter how many hundreds of thousands of their own? - the world is told to butt the hell out.
So just which is worse then? Apparently muslims slaughtering muslims is GREATLY to be preferred to a small newspaper publishing some cartoons. Yes, I can see now your moral high ground and it is staggering.
May 9th, 2006 at 5:18 am
Hi all,
Just, who to write to?
I second the call for advice on what we people living in Egypt can do. I am not much for street protests - I have a full time job and commute to 6 October and a husband who is not frankly in favor of having an activist wife, but I am really good at writing letters to people.
To Tsedek (#33) if you are Israeli and speak Hebrew can you go to the site of the woman who wrote post #5 and explain to her that letter writing to the Egyptian government will not really help? Thanks. Anna
May 9th, 2006 at 6:07 am
Hi Anna,
I’ve suggested that people write/email/call the US State Department. I think it is useful having people from outside the US indicate they want the US diplomacy apparatus to apply pressure on the Egyptian government over this matter.
May 9th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Does anybody have the emailadresses of Egyptian embassies/representatives in the EU and European countries?
I mean, it seems weird if you send an email to the embassy in Washington if you live in Holland.
Correct me if I’m wrong though
You would help me out a lot, I’m translating everything in Dutch (except the templates ofcourse) and sending it to newspapers and bloggers in The Netherlands & Flemish-speaking Belgium.
Thanx!
Youssef
The Netherlands
May 9th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Hollandi,
I don’t have a list of embassies/consulates in the EU. I will try and find an address or two if I can.
You are right that it might be odd to write the Egypt’s embassy in the US. However, I don’t think writing the State Department is a bad idea. Especially if you make an issue out of the foreign aid that the US grants Egypt every year.
Just a moment….
Ah yes, I found this!
http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-of/Egypt.cfm
May 9th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Thanks Tommy for your help!
In the mean time I found the emailadress of the Egyptian embassy in The Hague, it’s ambegnl@wanadoo.nl
So if there are any Dutch or Flemish readers, use that adress
)
( although I think I’m the only one from the rainy lowlands
May 9th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Jailed for Blogging! Help!
CAUTION: In some countries, blogging can be dangerous to your health, and freedom.
The security agents at Saturday’s peaceful rally in Cairo denouncing the crackdown on the reformist judges cornered a crowd of protestors against the Egypt Museum. Acco…
May 9th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
[...] Please, I dont ask you guys anything with urgency ever, but this is beyond important. Several bloggers in Egypt have been arrested and are being held, and Sam is possibly in danger of being arrested himself, and this information needs to be dissiminated as widely as possible. What follows is the email I have recieved from Sam……how can we spread the word? As you may have heard by now, Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah has been arrested alongside 10 others while demonstrating in support of the independence of the Judiciary in Egypt and the release of previous demonstrators who were detained 2 weeks earlier. The Police entrapped them, cordoning off their peaceful protest and then proceeded to handpick the demonstrators that they wanted to detain, beat them, and then arrested them. Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days “pending investigation” , which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. He and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in Egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
[...] Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days “pending investigation” , which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. He and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in Egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 12:49 am
[...] Addresses for the Egyptian embassies in the US and Canada are available here, templates for e-mails to be sent to the embassies here, and the contact information for the person to e-mail in the US state department is here. If you are a journalist or know one, help us spread the word by writing about this or demanding your local newspaper write about this. If you have a blog or a website and would like to raise awareness about this issue, banners for the Free Alaa campaign can be found here and here. We could use any help we can get, so if you have any ideas or ways to help us, please do. [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Free Ala’!
Ala’ is another victim of the fight for freedom. He is an Egyptian blogger and activist who is currently being detained by the Egyptian police for taking part in a demonstration. I urge the Egyptian government to release him now and put an end to thei…
May 10th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
[...] Aquí tenéis unas plantillas para las cartas, y en el blog de FA los datos de la embajada egipcia en España. Escrito por Prevost a las @ 6:41 pm | [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Freedom of Speech Starts With Freeing the Speaker
Have you heard of Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam? I hope so, but if not this would be a good time to learn who he is.
May 11th, 2006 at 1:21 am
[...] In an item posted on Monday, Sandmonkey gave this contact information for the Egyptian Embassy: Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt454 Laurier Ave. EastOttawa, ON K1N 6R3 [...]
May 13th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
[...] Please take the time to send a letter or make a phone call to an Egyptian Embassy or Consulate on his behalf, as well as his fellow activists. The Egyptian Sandmonkey has posted a list of phone numbers and letter templates and here is a link to an automatic interactive online petition. [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
[...] Pismo koje moete poslati na adresu egipatskog veleposlanstva:http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/05/08/the-situation-so-far/ [...]
July 11th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
[...] What you can do to help Alaa’ and the rest of the bloggers. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Alaa detained for 15 days “pending investigation”
Update 1: I’ll be on BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” tonight to talk about Alaa’a arrest.
Update 2: Kevin from BBC’s “World Have Your Say” writes in BBC blogs:
I contacted the Egyptian Embassy here in London to…
November 5th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Luogo interessante, buon disegno, lo gradisco, signore! =)
June 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
[...] for the Egyptian embassies in the US and Canada are available here, templates for e-mails to be sent to the embassies here, and the contact information for the person [...]