Friday
Sep222006
State Security threatens blogger
Hossam el-Hamalawy
Blogger Mohamed Gamal, who posts under the name Mr. GEMYHOoOD, has been receiving threats from State Security recently.
During the last Kefaya sit-in, Gamal told me he received phone threats from State Security officers, who asked him to take down a posting, where he drew a caricature of Hosni Mubarak urinating on the map of Egypt.
Gamal refused to take it down, and continues to receive the daily phone threats. Yesterday, Gamal was on his way to the Kefaya conference at the Lawyers' Syndicate, when he was stopped by a security agent who checked his ID, and few minutes later Gamal received another phone threat from security, that he broadcasted to his friends via the mobile phone speaker.
You can read Gamal's account of the threats, in Arabic, here.
Ma3lesh ya Mr. GEMYHOoOD... You have all my solidarity...
During the last Kefaya sit-in, Gamal told me he received phone threats from State Security officers, who asked him to take down a posting, where he drew a caricature of Hosni Mubarak urinating on the map of Egypt.
Gamal refused to take it down, and continues to receive the daily phone threats. Yesterday, Gamal was on his way to the Kefaya conference at the Lawyers' Syndicate, when he was stopped by a security agent who checked his ID, and few minutes later Gamal received another phone threat from security, that he broadcasted to his friends via the mobile phone speaker.
You can read Gamal's account of the threats, in Arabic, here.
Ma3lesh ya Mr. GEMYHOoOD... You have all my solidarity...
Reader Comments (5)
Hey fellas - It seems like the government is really cracking down on bloggers right now!!
How horrifying!
Check this out. A Coptic guy named Maged Salamah has just disappeared from the blogging scene and I suspect some serious foul play. He spoke out very strongly, I'm sure the state would call blasphemously, against extremist Islam, Muburak, the U.S, Israel...basically everything. He was one pissed off individual :) but he wasn't a bad guy. He's also an American citizen which is huge. This guy actually returned from America back to Egypt because of his love for Egypt. And now I'm afraid the country that he returned to has thrown him in some dark prison!
Here's his site.
http://www.democraticegypt.blogspot.com/
Check out the comments section in his last post. His website has just been recently tampered with. I hope I'm wrong but I'm pretty certain something terrible happened.
My prayers are with Mr. GEMYHOoOD and Maged that they are safe!
though not directly related, i wonder if you noticed this:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD2F4222-2E1D-4B99-B7D6-22F03AF3077C.htm
A propos of absolutely nothing, Ramadan Karim to the Muslim members of this blog
Hey Peter, I never heard of Maged's blog before you mentioned it. I'll check it out and try to sniff around for some news about this issue. Thanks for forwarding the link.
Tompson, thanks for the link. Yeah, I checked the story earlier.
Zazou, thanks for greetings.. Ramadan Kareem to you too
Hey Hoss - Thank you. I hope I'm just blowing it our of proportion. And if I did then I apologize.
Kola sana we'entum tayabeen. Happy Ramadan.
Pete