Yaman blogs about my friend Khaled Hamza‘s arrest. Abu Aardvark also posted in solidarity.
And here’s a Reuters report:
The editor of an Egyptian Web site run by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood has been remanded in custody for 15 days after two recent meetings with foreign human rights activists, the Brotherhood said on Thursday.
Khaled Hamza, the editor of IkhanWeb.com, the English Web site of the Islamist group, was arrested in the street in northeast Cairo on Wednesday, the Web site said.He had just had a meeting with Violette Daguerre, the president of the France-based Arab Commission for Human Rights, the Web site said.
Abdel Monem Mahmoud, an editor at IkhwanWeb, said Hazma had also given information about human rights in Egypt to U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who visited the country last week in solidarity with Brotherhood leaders facing military trial.
During his interrogation at Interior Ministry headquarters in Cairo, police officers told Hamza they would not stay silent for long about the many human rights delegations visiting Egypt in connection with the military trial, Mahmoud said, quoting Hamza in a telephone call on Wednesday.
Interior Ministry spokesmen were not available to comment.
I hope other international bloggers would follow suit. Spread the word! Freedom for Khaled! Freedom for all political detainees in Mubarak’s Gulag!
Down with the Dictator!