Come, Friendly Blogger Bombs, and Fall on Egypt

Yes, I haven't been very active lately - blame a family trip and two weddings to organise plus work-induced scriptophobia - but I thought this story about Egyptian blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, being jailed was worth stirring from my slumber (via Harry's):

In addition bloggers are using another technique to bring Egypt and the Egyptian Government and the Egyptian Government’s human rights record to public attention.

Close examination will show that each occurrence of the word “Egypt” above is linked to freealaa.blogspot.com. This is a well-known technique - if enough people make the same link to the word “Egypt” then eventually a search on the word will give the site as one of the top results.

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It’s the continued struggle for independence of the Egyptian judiciary which has led to Alaa’s detention. Early in April the authorities took action to prosecute judges who complained about election violations. A few weeks later a group of 50 judges held a sit-in protest to oppose the government’s prosecution of their colleagues. Demonstrators came to support the judges’ action but the authorities then broke up this protest violently and beat a senior judge who came out to intervene.

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