Man again I thank God many times on what we have in Egypt seriously , I mean at least our bloggers do not get caught sorry kidnapped and sexual assault "it happened before in Egypt" for only a comment, Egyptian bloggers suffer from what they actually wrote in their blogs
Remember when we speak about the blogs in Syria from couple of months and law restrictions about commenting in the news Websites and blogs , well what you are going to read next is related to it
Roukana Amour is a Syrian who seemed to be a political activist 
She owns a blog in Maktoob where she mainly speaks about politics and corruption in Syria , her husband was kidnapped and interrogated by the security in Syria from few months
she herself was a victim of kidnapping from two days ago , the security forces kidnapped her on the 25th of October last Thursday in from of her house , in front of her kids , her little boy was terrified and wet himself in his pants, her husband could not do anything because I guess I felt he knew who those people who suddenly appeared were and he could not resist them otherwise they would be no mom and dad , it is very hard to imagine
The lady was kidnapped and put in a car where she was threatened to be sexually abused , in fact when she arrived to some building ,someone sexually harassed her leaving her for some time then she was interrogated by some brainy officer , for sure he is an officer ,silly questions like him were asked and it turned out that this woman suffered all what she suffered because some comment in her blog in the month of April that was written by someone called "Ali Hajj Hussein" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It turned out that Mr. Ali left a comment that the regime in Syria considered as unacceptable talk , Mr. Ali said that he would elect her for the Syrian Presidency !!! yes Roukana VS. Doctor Bashar !!! can you imagine it !!?? and how dare that person to say so !!??
in fact I will translate what that brainy officer
No Person should dare even to think to run for presidency !!??
And how Roukana dared to answer him back nicely , she should have either deleted the comment or made him love the doctor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roukana was asked about her feelings about Dr.Bashar . They even got the telephone from the IP from which that commentator Ali entered her blog from then and they asked her about the telephone number and if she knew anyone in that street !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roukana was released after three hours after that when an high official interfered I guess her husband has some contacts
you can read the whole experience here in Arabic
The wonderful things you will learn from that terrible experience are the following :
- The Syrian intelligence itself is following the Syrian blogs extensively "I do not know but do not they have much more important jobs to do than this !!??"
- Maktoob blogging service gives info about the commentators and the bloggers to intelligence services
- No one dares even to think inside him or her self to run for presidency against the doctor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CRAP!
ReplyDeleteIt's obvious that many services do give out information about their users. Maktoob are not alone in that!
But this REALLY REALLY sucks!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm going to read more about it
@Qwaider , I know that other services also give info but not to the limit of the commentator's ip
ReplyDeletealready Maktoob as arabic service in our Arab world with our standard and level of freedom can be operated freely as we think or want away from the Arabic regimes
You mentioned that an Egyptian MB blogger was arrested recently. Don't you think that Egyptian security follows it's bloggers also? One is in jail for his blog if I'm not mistaken.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever wonder if they will come knocking on your door. Maybe it is better to blog at a net cafe.
@anonymous, The cases of the Egyptian bloggers are different , those bloggers who are arrested are more of activists in the first place who participate in protests and in case of MB they are members in a group that legally is forbidden since 1950s
ReplyDeleteabout Karim's case I am sorry but this is a different case ,it is a civil suite , he insulted an institute and the institute has the right to answer back plus I believe what he wrote was too insulting for the people in Egypt he did not understand or respect what the meaning and the responsibility of freedom of expression
about me , well yes I know there is danger but God is above all
The Net cafes in Egypt are ordered to take the ids of the users , they are not safe either !!??
still in Egypt is different , if you browse in the Egyptian blogs , you will find most of them attacking the regime fiercely even more than me , still as long as they only talk but are not acting there is no danger, let them speak , a kind of relief , it is a kind of a policy in Egypt
If you really believed in total freedom of speach like you keep preaching, you would publish the comments of those who don't necessary agree with your opinion. You used to do this, but now you are like your government. You are censoring your audience and soon you won't have one. Even if you didn't agree with Kareem, he is entitled to his opinion and to express it. So what if he criticized Egypt. If he doesn't like something about Islam, also his choice. Islam won't disappear because of one guy.
ReplyDelete@anonymous ,I made a censorship on comments in my blog after a specific incident for specific visitors who attacked my other visitors using very bad names and insults in the same name of Freedom , this is not freedom , this is rudeness and I won't let it happen in my blog
ReplyDeleteabout Karim , well I think also have the right to express my opinion about him in the same way