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    • Photo: Democracy Now
      Egypt’s Military Widens Crackdown As Prominent Blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah Remains Imprisoned
      by Sampsonia Way / November 7, 2011

      Abdel Fattah was arrested last week after being accused of instigating clashes between military forces and Coptic Christians nearly a month ago at the state television building, Maspeero.

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      Prominent Activist, Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah Jailed in Egypt
      by Sampsonia Way / November 1, 2011

      Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah has been jailed on charges of inciting violence. Abdel Fattah spoke to Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous back in February.

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    • Video: Interview of Newly-freed Burmese Dissident Comedian Zarganar
      by Sampsonia Way / October 18, 2011

      Recently Reporters Without Borders posted a video interview with the comedian and blogger Zarganar, who was freed from Myitkyina prison on 12 October under a government amnesty.

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    • Maikel Nabil Sanad: Egypt's First Post-Revolution Prisoner of Conscience
      Egyptian Blogger Passes 40th Day of Hunger Strike
      by Index On Censorship / October 8, 2011

      Maikel Nabil Sanad is entering his 42nd day of hunger strike in protest against a three-year sentence imposed by a military court for criticizing the army.

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    • Ran Yunfei
      Ran Yunfei Released After Ai Weiwei Asks for Blogger’s Support on Twitter
      by Clare Gates / August 16, 2011

      Ran Yunfei, Chinese blogger, author, and outspoken free speech advocate, was released Tuesday from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan where he was held for almost six months.

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    • Zeng Jinyan
      Chinese Blogger Zeng Jinyan Reunited with Freed Husband Hu Jia
      by Olivia Stransky / July 18, 2011

      Hu Jia, a political activist imprisoned since 2008, was released by Chinese authorities on June 26, 2011. He reunited with his wife, Zeng Jinyan, a well-known activist blogger.

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    • Yoani Sanchez
      Cuban Blogger Yoani Sánchez on Her Book Havana Real
      by Sampsonia Way / July 6, 2011

      This year, Melville House published Sánchez’s new book: Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today. Unable to attend a literary event in New York, she sent a recorded speech thanking her supporters everywhere.

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    • Amina Abdalla, Blogger of Gay Girl in Damascus, Abducted in Syria
      by Sampsonia Way / June 7, 2011

      Syrian blogger, Amina Abdallah, who goes by the name of Gay Girl In Damascus, has been abducted. Three men in their early 20’s, assumed to be agents of Assad, seized her on a street in Damascus.

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