Kareem Amer: Flood the Jail with Mail!

Below text emailed by the Free Karim Editor

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Dear friends and fellow supporters of Kareem Amer,

The Free Kareem Coalition, in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Bloggers, are holding a new campaign called “Flood the Jail with Mail!” (taking place from April 7th-21st) aimed to get as many people as possible to send Kareem letters of support so that he can remain hopeful and in high spirits.

Kareem has spent over one year in prison, with no sign of his freedom yet. This past November, he was tortured by both prison inmates and guards while being asked to repent for holding certain beliefs. This is unacceptable. We cannot go on referring to Egypt as a democratic or modern state for as long as Kareem is still in prison. This unjust crime of imprisoning him has to be corrected immediately as it’s a serious abuse against the freedom of speech clause which Egypt constantly claims to adhere to.

We still await his unconditional release, and are continuing to do our best to secure his freedom.

But while we do that, we have to make sure that Kareem knows that we are all thinking about him. And for this purpose, we have launched a new campaign:

FLOOD THE JAIL WITH MAIL!

Please read the details here. It has all the details that you would require in order to pariticpate in this campaign, which will soon be joined by Reporters Without Borders and any other organization interested in making this initative as successful and effective as possible.
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Free Kareem Coalition
editor@freekareem.org
http://www.FreeKareem.org/

Stand with Tibet against Tiranny

Check out the International Campaign for a Free Tibet to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest events; hundreds of brave freedom fighting monks are challenging the communist regime and many are being brutally slaughtered (the death toll is likely to rise).

Updates on Burma

Statement by President Bush on the situation in Burma. Thailand says it doesn’t give a damn on human rights concerns. In the meantime, a Burmese blogger reminds us of how important is to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A Message to Islamo-Fascists

H/T: Sandmonkey

FW: Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity (UPDATED)

Michelle Malkin reminds us of the failed attempt to kill free thinking Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, author of one of the twelve dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, as you may recall. And suggests to show our solidarity to him by reprinting the targeted cartoon. 

UPDATE: Eleven Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoons.

Genocide Brought to Justice

It’s beautiful when war criminals, genocidal monsters who slaughtered almost 2 million people in what has been one of the worst massacres after the Holocaust, are brought to justice and faces their victims directly. Top Associate Of Pol Pot Faces Victim In Courtroom.

Suu Kyi’s Warning

Democracy leader Aung Suu Kyi tells Myanmar to “prepare for worst”. Once again, the role European Union is playing is doing more harm than good. Current “envoy” to Burma is an Italian ‘ex’ communist.

To My Middle Eastern Sisters: It’s High Time to Burn Your Veils!

And free your bodies from slavery

Hundreds March for Democracy in Hong Kong

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Petition: Kibaki Must Step Down

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Democracy Scores Again in Georgia

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Free and Fair Elections Demanded in Kenya

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Let a Hundred Flowers Be Crushed

Ellen Bork for the Weekly Standard: The precarious lives of China’s dissidents

Venezuelans Celebrate Freedom Victory

Student leader Freddy Guevara

Venezuelans Say NO to Chavez!

I’ve always affirmed that when a people is given a chance, they choose Democracy over Tyranny. I’ve always affirmed that Chavez enjoy the support of just a tiny minority of thugs. Today, my beliefs have been confirmed, as the majority of Venezuelans REJECTED this Stalinist/Fascist Castro puppet. The difference in favor of NO was close to 20%, much more than the one announced by the regime. George of TheRealCuba.com had this to say:

I have a very good friend in Venezuela who used to be a director of the CNE previous to Chavez coming to power. He was very involved in the group supporting the NO and had access to the reports of the auditing of the polling places. He told me around 10 PM last night that the difference in favor of the NO vote was close to 20%, and that the government was going to admit defeat but not with such a large margin. That’s why they kept delaying the results from 7 PM until 1 AM Venezuelan time. Chavez would have never accepted defeat if the real difference was only 1.5%

therealcuba.com

This means that Chavez will have to step aside once his (illegitimate) term comes to an end. Whether he will do it or not, it remains to be seen, and – knowing the totalitarian character he is – I fear he’ll stay in power anyway. However, with this vote, the international community will have to prevent him from keeping power and help Venezuelans get rid of him. Don’t wanna see another Burma. Hope the world community is gonna stand with those who chose democracy.

Thousands March Against Chavez in Caracas

Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas to show their rejection of the Chavez’s regime and call on the people to vote NO to the chavista “reform” of the constitution, that would boost the tyrant’s power. I was surprised to find this news in the mainstream media, yet there was nothing about it in the Italian media. (h/t: Mega Resistencia)

Migliaia di venezuelani sono nuovamente scesi in strada per dire NO alla riforma costituzionale voluta da Chavez, che prevede poteri assoluti al tiranno marionetta di Castro. Come al solito, ai media italiani (persino a quelli mediaset) non conviene neanche citare la notizia, così come non lo fanno mai quando milioni di persone riempiono le strade del paese sudamericano. Ieri e oggi Caracas era invasa da decine di migliaia di persone del popolo che rifiuta chavez ed il comunismo. Ma loro non fanno notizia. Immaginatevi se fossero stati supporter di chavez. A quest’ora stareste vedendo le immagini sulle TV italiane.

Free Kareem worldwide rallies!‏

Received via e-mail from the director of the Free Kareem Coalition.

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Dear friends, as the dates for our worldwide rallies near, we desperately need your help!

In order to influence the Egyptian government to free Kareem, and to have their officials know that the world has not forgotten about this young man, we are organizing our 3rd worldwide rally to mark Kareem’s one year imprisonment. We want to send this message to the Egyptian authorities: One year is enough! Free Kareem Amer now!

For this rally to be as meaningful and effective as possible, we need as many cities as we can get to be involved in organizing a rally for Kareem Amer on Friday, the 9th of November.

So far we have the following 10 cities confirmed:

• Washington DC, USA
• London, UK
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Bucharest, Romania
• Berlin, Germany
• Brussels, Belgium
• Rome, Italy
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Athens, Greece

We need at least 10 more cities involved for this rally to play a bigger role for Egypt as well as the international media. We need to get this message across to the Egyptian government for the sake of Kareem who did nothing wrong to be imprisoned and treated like this.

If you are interested in organizing a rally in front of your local Egyptian embassy, please contact us to have us confirm your involvement. It is a simple process; all you have to do is gather a group of people (can be as small as 2 and as big as 100) in front of the Egyptian embassy in a city near you, and take a few photos/videos of yourself protesting so that we can cover it worldwide. We strongly encourage you to hand in a one-page document that expresses your concerns for Kareem and reasons why he should be freed. It can include copies of our current petitions as well.

For more information please visit www.FreeKareem.org

Thank you! If your city is not yet listed here, please help us and Kareem by getting involved!

Esra’a Al Shafei
Free Kareem Coalition, Director

Free Kareem Amer! One year is enough!

Esra’a Al Shafei, director of the Free Kareem website, sent us an email reminding us about Egyptian blogger Kareem Ameer Soliman (sorry for the spelling), who’s still imprisoned for expressing his secularist views on Islam. Following is the e-mail transcript.

Dear friends,

Almost a year has gone by, and Kareem Amer is still in prison. Egypt is getting away with this inexcusable human rights violation. The U.S government, while aware of the situation, is not doing enough and continues to financially assist Egypt despite the increasing crackdown on bloggers and activists. We need your help in raising awareness, all Kareem did was practice his rights to free speech, and if we don’t stand up for his freedom and these rights, there will be more victims. We want the world to know what the Egyptian authorities are putting Kareem and many others through all the while portraying itself as “democratic.” We need to stand up for freedom, and we need to do it right now. Kareem needs you. Please dedicate a few minutes of your free time to do the suggested things below.

There are several things that you can do to help:

• Kareem has sent us his 6th letter from prison, which is now available in English on www.FreeKareem.org, re-publish this letter on your blogs or via e-mail as Kareem wants this letter to be read by as many people as possible. If you are a journalist, please ask your editor if you can dedicate a column in your paper to publish this letter (and you may feel free to shorten it whenever necessary, as long as the meaning is kept the way it is.) If you can, we would greatly appreciate your help if you can translate this letter. You will be credited with the translation and your work will be listed in the “What Kareem Said” page.
• Worldwide Rallies are coming up on Friday the 9th of November. Please either show up to your local rally or if there is none organized for your city please prepare a rally in front of the Egyptian Embassy on this date. Let us know if you are willing to do this so we can list you as a coordinator for people to contact. Getting involved in the rallies and taking videos/pictures is one of the best ways you can help us spread the word on Kareem.
• If you want to help Kareem stay in good spirits, please send him a personal letter to this address: http://www.freekareem.org/2007/06/05/updating-kareems-prison-address/

If you are a Twitter user, the Committee to Protect Bloggers is organizing a Twitter Day for Kareem. Please visit this entry for the relevant information:
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/10/03/twitter4kareem-on-november-6/

Thank you all for your support. For a direct link to the information concerning our next set of worldwide rallies, please visit this link:
http://www.freekareem.org/2007/07/21/next-worldwide-rally-date/

For pictures concerning the last worldwide rallies in April, scroll past the entries here:
http://www.freekareem.org/category/worldwide-rallies/

Please write back if you would like to get involved, especially in the worldwide rallies.

Regards,
Esra’a Al Shafei
Free Kareem Coalition, Director
www.FreeKareem.org

Stop Kuffarophobia and Kalifascism!

London Demonstration 26th October 2007, organised by “Stop Islamisation Of Europe” (SIOE)

The Tsar’s Opponent

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UN Envoy Attends Burmese Junta’s Rally

If anyone needed more evidence of how irrelevant and morally bankrupted the United Nations has become, here it is, as UN envoy to Burma is touring the country accompained by the Junta’s officials and will be attending an official rally.

Vaclav Havel: Struggling alone .The international community’s failure to act means watching helplessly as victims of repression in Burma are consigned to their fate.

Washington Post : The slaughtered monks of Burma will haunt China

Updates from Burma

Maybe few noticed it, but the Junta fired on children, as well. There might be not that significant, but reports are coming out that Burmese generals are confronting each other. But today’s news is that the regime has imposed a total media and information blackout, closing down all cyber cafes, cutting off internet access and searching houses in search of ‘enemy propaganda’. More updates soon.

Burma Sinks, UN Couldn’t Care Less

Here we are, again. Burmese military turned Yangoon (formerly known as Rangoon) into a battlefield. Peaceful demonstrators are being ruthlessly murdered, including foreign reporters, guilty with letting the world knowing about whats going on in a country where any attempt to provide fair information is banned. Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Security Council members China and Russia invoked ‘non-interference in internal affairs of nations’ (except when it comes to Taiwan or countries of the ex Soviet Union..) in order to justify their criminal support of the military regime. The Economist has an eye-opening piece on how destructive is the so-called ‘non interference’ principle applied to cases like this. Canadian Coalition for Democracies: Concrete Canadian action needed to end military dictatorship in Burma

Tiananmen Shadows on Myanmar

The heroism of Burmese monks and civilians has gone almost completely unnoticed by the int.l community. When I say unnoticed, I mean no real action has been promised. Or if it has, it will probably be too late. Indeed, riot police used force against peaceful monks and, firing on them and killing some (as of this writing, the death toll is likely to rise..). Yesterday, democracy leader Daw Aung San Su Kyii was moved to an infamous prison. Please, sign this Appeal to the UN Security Council to act and save the Burmese people. P.S.: I doubt the Council will do something, as some members are notorious human rights violators and China have veto power, which would most probably use to back the Junta, their ally.

NOTE: Burmese readers,if you have any photos, please send them to me at stefania07@hotmail.com

“We shall replace (crackdown) unjustice with justice”

Aung San Su Kyii Joins Democracy Fighters

There’s some unprecedented development in Burma, as detained democracy leader Aung San Su Kyii managed to step out of her home, and greeted in tears the crowd of monks gathered in Rangoon, Myanmar’s capital. This Washington Post’s good editorial wonders whether the world will stand by. With the exception of the US, there appears as if no one cares at what’s going on over there. Too busy filling the pockets of Hamas, that there’s no time to lend a hand to these brave people in a country too often forgotten. (h/t: 1972)

A man is detained by men in civilian cloths during a protest in Yangon on August 28, 2007

Burmese Junta Faces Major Uprising

The situation is even more tense in Burma now, as the military junta is gearing up for a major showdown with pro-democracy Buddhist monks, who issued a joint statement describing the regime as the ‘enemy of the people’ and calling on everyone to take to the streets in peaceful, but proactive defiance of tyranny.

Another Test for Europe

I am left with little or no hope in Europe’s renaissance from its ongoing moral decadence. A Continent whose political authorities punish those who brave their political correctness through beatings, censorship and frivolous lawsuits, won’t be able to wake up in time. They failed to protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who justly moved to the United States. And they won’t provide adequate protection for other free thinkers like this Muslim critic whose announced film on homosexuality and Islam is expected to have Islamists all over the world seething and whining.

Stop The Islamization of Europe Rally Defies Brussels Ban

As I wrote in my Human Events op-ed column, the Stop the Islamization of Europe rally was officially banned by Brussels’ socialist mayor. However, in sign of defience, they held the rally anyway, but – as predicted – Belgian police arrested several demonstrators.They were all released, but this provides more evidence of the totalitarian attitude of European leaders when faced with criticism of their appeasement policies toward Radical Islam. While SIOE rally was banned, the Arab-European League (financed by Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood) and Jew and America hating Extreme Leftist conspiracy nuts, had their rallies ALLOWED. Also, as usual, the European media (regardless of their political tendency) have once again forgotten their duty of informing in an unbiased and fair manner and are labeling SIOE protesters as”far-right”. This is far from being true. While there may have been some extreme right-wing xenophobic intruders, the SIOE committee is formed by people from the center, the democratic right and left. Indeed, most of them are not even interested in politics. Most are ordinary citizens well aware of the threat their continent faces nowadays. To the European leaders and media, the SIOE is “far-right”, while Arab-European League and Leftist Extremists are just peaceful demonstrators calling peacefully for the peaceful Islamization and subjugation of infidels, and peacefully blaming the biggest tragedy of this century on American and Jews. Protesting radical Islam is “far-right”; anti-semitism and Islamism is “legitimate free speech”. This is how morally-blind European rulers have become.

Here are photos from today’s unauthorized rally, where demonstrators defied Belgian authorities in order to protect their right to free speech.

Demonstrators wear mock-Muslim scarves and tee-shirts reading “Stop Islamisation”

And here’s how Belgian Gestapo deals with those who refuse to surrender.

Burma Protests Continue

The latest from Burma, a nation forgotten by the int.l community. BBC: Junta breaks up rare Burma rally; Junta Cracks Down as Rangoon Protests Spread; Burma Protests: the Situation at August 24

On Taiwan and Chinese Censorship

Amb. Richard S. Williamson:Freedom’s Example on Taiwan. Taiwan’s rambunctious democracy rebuts Beijing’s assertion that democracy cannot flourish in a Confucian Society