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Egyptian Blogger Wael Abbas: Detained at Cairo Airport

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 @ 13:54 UTC

by Marwa Rakha

Countries:: Egypt
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Human Rights
Languages:: English

Upon his arrival from Sweden at the Cairo Airport, blogger Wael Abbas tweets the details of his detention at Cairo Airport. The Arabist reported saying: Egyptian mega-blogger Wael Abbas is being detained at Cairo Airport after his passport was confiscated last night. This is the first time this has happened to Wael, who is currently holding a sit-in with a banner at the airport requesting his passport back.

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[...] the 30th of June 2009, the security officers at Cairo International Airport have detained an activist blogger, Wael Abbas, who frequently writes about torture cases and police abuse in Egypt. Mr. Abbas was [...]

# 2009-07-13 at 19:06 pm
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[...] is the second time for Abbas to be stopped by the security officers, from almost one month Abbas was detained at the airport and his laptop was [...]

# 2009-08-10 at 9:42 am
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[...] Monday morning, being told she was a “national security risk” by security guards. Last June Wael Abbas has been detained and In April, Laila Haddad twittered her 36 hour long experience.” [...]

# 2009-09-10 at 21:13 pm
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[...] the series of harassing or deporting journalists in Egypt, like Travis Randall, Philip Rizk and Wael Abbas; Per Bjorklund, a Swedish journalist and blogger has been detained in Cairo airport upon his [...]

# 2009-09-29 at 12:55 pm
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[...] Son olarak İsveçli gazeteci ve blog yazarı Per Bjorklund da Travis Randall, Philip Rizk ve Wael Abbas‘la [linkler İng.] aynı kaderi paylaştı. Kahire Havaalanına gelen gazeteci güvenlik [...]

# 2009-10-3 at 19:29 pm

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