Friday, February 23, 2007
BLOG AND GO TO JAIL!
This week on the BBC website I woke up before class and read an article that really stuck me and is extremely relevant to our class and this blog. The article was about a man in Egypt, the same age as me, 22, a student, who spoke out against his university on his blog and was imprisoned!!! I was really shaken up by this article and how similar it is to my experience, but he was sentenced to four years in jail and meanwhile over here in the U.S. I am able to write what I please on this blog without consequence. Unless I write crazy stuff about the government and then I might evoke some sort of F.B.I. surveillance, but thats our society. What mostly arises in me is a sense of gratefulness for the rights we have and also a disgust for the unfairness of this story and the state of (more the lack of) free speech in Egypt. If you want more background on how speech is censored in Egypt I found an article in the Middle East Times about free speech infringement and the different forces that are strangling it.
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This story left me in shock as well, so I had to take a look at the article. It really was crazy to read the following; "During the five-minute court session the judge said Soliman was guilty and would serve three years for insulting Islam and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mr Mubarak." It only took them five minutes to decide that he was going to spend his next four years in prison!
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