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Egypt: Blogging Behind Bars
Middle East & North Africa, Egypt, Weblog, Blogger News, Cyber-Activism, Human Rights, Protest, International Relations

On May 10, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, the award-winning blogger detained three days earlier for participating in peaceful protests in Cairo, became one of the first people to blog from prison.

“Today it hit me,” Alaa began his post, “I am really in prison. I’m not sure how I feel…The way fellow prisoners look at me tells me I do not feel well but I can’t really feel it.”