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 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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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 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, 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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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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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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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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