Arizona Congressman to Mubarak: Free Blogger

Several NowPublic commentators have written in recent weeks about the four year prison sentence imposed on Egyptian blogger Kareem Solimon, convicted of defaming Islam. Representative Trent Franks (R-Arizona) has entered the fray via a Washingon Post letter to the editor. The...

Egypt blogger jailed for 'insult'

"An Egyptian court has sentenced an internet blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt. He had used his weblog to criticise the country's top Islamic...

Egyptian blogger needs support

The Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman Amer has been arrested by the police for 'criticising Islam' and will be subject to a second interrogation "by the prosecutor and... professors from Al-Azhar University" tomorrow.  Amer was expelled in March from that...