I've been blogging a lot recently about Fouad Mourtada, the young Moroccan man sentenced to three years in jail for posting a joke profile of the King's brother on Facebook. Yet there is another Fouad - Fouad Alfarhan - who has been in jail for three months with no release imminent. Fouad, who is a politically vocal blogger, was arrested on December 10th, and an online campaign to free him started soon after. However, when President Bush visited Saudi Arabia
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Despite heavy press coverage, Saudi blogger Fouad Al-Farhan remains in prison. Now Avaaz, an international digital activism organization with over 1 million members worldwide, is joining the fight free Fouad. They have posted a petition demanding Fouad's release and are hoping to get 2500 signatures. Only 2500 signatures for Fouad? I bet we can get at least twice that!Let's get 5000 signatures for Fouad!Here's what you can do: 1. Sign the petition to free Fouad here (English) of here (Arabic).2.
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A great piece on CNN about Fouad Alfarhan's imprisonment and the blog campaign to free him:
Please ad the Free Fouad quote randomizer to your blog. The quote randomizer scrolls through a list of quotes by jailed Saudi blogger Fouad Alfarhan. Even though the Saudi government is trying to silence Fouad, should them that jailing a blogger will only carry their words further.Just embed the following code in the sidebar of your blog:<iframe name=""FouadRandomizer"" src=""http://alfarhan.org/fouadphrases/fouad_phrase.php"" frameborder=""0"" marginheight=""0"" marginwidth=""0"" scrolling=""no"" height=""200"" width=""150"></iframe>"
What? Day of Blog Silence to Protest the Imprisonment of Blogger Fouad Alfarhan When? Sunday, January, 2008 Where? blogs around the world How? On that day, bloggers will not write on their blogs, but instead will post a Free Fouad banner, like the one above. (Both banners are posted full-size at the bottom of this post.) Why? To free a blogger imprisoned for criticiznig his government and to send a message that we will not tolerate the persecution of free
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Fouad Alfaran, only of Saudi Arabia's most important bloggers, was arrested on December 10 for blogging about Saudi Arabia's political prisoners. Ironically, he is now a political prisoner himself. The campaign to free him is taking advantage of several digital activism techniques, including a Free Fouad blog (in English and Arabic), a Free Fouad Facebook group, and an e-petition. Please consider taking action by signing the petition, joining the Facebook group, and learning more about the case on the blog.
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Why do people want to be "on the Internet?" One of the main reasons is simple freedom. The Internet is a rare example of a true, modern, functional anarchy. There is no "Internet Inc." There are no official censors, no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders.Today that paragraph, written in 1993, seems naive and ill-informed. There certainly are censors on the Internet. Look at China and Saudi Arabia. While there is no "Internet Inc." the Internet is most certainly
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