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In Saudi Arabia, Fouad is Still in Prison

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 10/03/2008 at 21:14

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 in mid-January, Fouad's wife asked the people taking part in the campaign to back down, fearing that the campaign

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Free Fouad Petition - 5000 Signatures for Fouad!

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 20/01/2008 at 13:31


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. Write a post on your blog asking your readers to sign the petition too.(Read more)
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Free Fouad on CNN

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 08/01/2008 at 13:34

A great piece on CNN about Fouad Alfarhan's imprisonment and the blog campaign to free him:

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Day of Blog Silence for Fouad

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 05/01/2008 at 21:39
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Day of Blog Silence for Fouad

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 01/01/2008 at 14:52

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 speech in the blogosphere.
Who is organizing the action? Mideast Youth

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We Blog Freedom

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 29/12/2007 at 14:09


translation: "We Blog Freedom"

I really liked this image from Abdel Monem's blog, Ana Ikhwan, so I decided to post it here.  He has a whole post (in Arabic) about imprisoned bloggers.

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