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by: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
2007-3-18
Last month, a 22-year-old Egyptian blogger was sentenced to four years in prison for what he had posted online; he’d been charged with criticizing President Hosni Mubarak and insulting Islam. This week, the police violently broke up a peaceful protest against pending constitutional amendments and detained a number of people. None of these things bode well for human rights or democracy in Egypt... |