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Egypt: Blogger Gets 2,300 Letters in Prison
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Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
PRESS RELEASE
2 June 2008
Posted to the web 2 June 2008
Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, a blogger better known as Kareem Amer, has been getting hundreds of letters in prison from Internet users all over the world as a result of a "Flood the Jail with Mail" campaign (http://www.freekareem.org/2008/03/19/flood-the-jail-with-mail/) launched jointly by the Free Kareem Support Committee (http://www.freekareem.org/) and the Committee to Protect Bloggers (http://www.committeetoprotectbloggers.org).
Kareem referred to the campaign in a message yesterday to a blogger in Alexandria (http://wa7damasrya.blogspot.com/). "got 2300 messages from everywhere" he wrote. "I feel so happy everytime I am receiving a letter , I feel that people didnt forget about me ,I wish i could be out from here"
Kareem is in Borg el Arab prison near Alexandria, where he is serving a three-year sentence for "inciting hatred of Islam" and insulting President Mubarak. He was arrested in late 2006 and the sentence was imposed on 22 February 2007.
Letters can be still be sent to him at this address:
Kareem Amer Borg el Arab prison, Section 22 Cell 1 Alexandria, Egypt
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