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Saudi Arabia: Fouad al-Farhan's blog and Freefouad blocked

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 14:25 UTC

by Sami Ben Gharbia

Countries:: Saudi Arabia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech

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Arabie Saoudite : Fermeture des blogs de Fouad Al-Farhan...

The blog of the detained Saudi blogger Fouad al-Farhan has been blocked today in Saudi Arabia, along with Freefouad blog.

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# 2008-04-6 at 9:06 am
Qwaider قويدر

Bravo!
Are they going to silence every Arab blogger writing about Fouad!?

# 2008-04-6 at 9:41 am

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rubenlaracast

Greetings qwaider,
There will be more and more bloggers writing about Fouad al-Farhan around the world every day.
You are welcome to read what I wrote.
http://www.rubenlaracast.blogspot.com

# 2008-04-7 at 5:43 am

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Ganief Hendricks

We would like to invite ouad to be our guest blogger whenever that is possible.

# 2008-04-27 at 12:27 pm

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