Solidarity needed with detained blogger Abdel Aziz Megahed.
Tag: detainees
Crackdown on pro-Gaza activists
Police have cracked down this morning on activists assembling in Dokki, who were preparing to travel to Gaza with a caravan of medical aid and supplies, detaining dozens including our friend Ahmad Abdel Fattah.
UPDATE: Ahmad has been released.
UPDATE: A report by Sarah Carr.
UPDATE: Solidarity needed with detained Ad-Dustour journalist Aya Youssef.
UPDATE: Aya released.
More online than print journalists behind bars: CPJ
From AFP:
In a reflection of the digital age, more online journalists are jailed around the world than journalists from any other medium, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Thursday.
The New York-based media watchdog group, in its annual census of imprisoned journalists, said that as of Dec. 1, a total of 125 journalists were behind bars, two fewer than at the same point in 2007.
It said 56 of the imprisoned journalists were considered online journalists — bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors — surpassing the number of print journalists for the first time.
Print reporters, editors, and photographers are the next largest category of jailed journalists, with 53 cases, the CPJ said, adding that television and radio journalists and documentary filmmakers constitute the rest.
