Sunday, November 19, 2006

Egyptian Police Detain Another Blogger Despite International Criticism

An AP newswire article, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:

Police arrested a blogger Sunday in Cairo, less than a week after rights watchdog Amnesty International criticized Egypt for detaining the writer of another personal Web log.

Rami Siyam was detained in downtown Cairo early Sunday for questioning, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

He is at least the fifth blogger Egypt has detained this year.

Later he was transferred to the Delta Nile city of Belbeis for further interrogation.

More here.

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