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Saudi Arabia: Leading Blogger Arrested

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 @ 01:30 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Saudi Arabia
Topics:: Breaking News, Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism
Languages:: Arabic

The Arab Blogger's Observatory (Ar) announced the arrest of pioneer Saudi blogger Fuad Al Farhan. The site did not cite any reasons for his arrest.

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Rasheed Abou-Alsamh

It’s sad news that our friend Fuad has been held by Saudi authorities yet again.
I will be blogging about this shortly on my blog Rasheed’s World.
I think other Saudi bloggers should start a campaign to help get Fuad freed. If anyone has any ideas on this do contact me.

# 2007-12-23 at 7:20 am

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