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Free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman

Target: Habib Ibrahim Habib El Adly, Minister of the Interior, Ministry of the Interior, Arab Republic of Egypt
Sponsor: Curt Hopkins, Committee to Protect Bloggers
  • Signatures: 229
  • Goal: 0
  • Deadline: 11-30--0001
Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman has been detained by the Egyptian authorities due to objections to his online criticism of Islam and the state. Help us free him and defend freedom of speech

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229 5:51 pm PDT, May 19 Anonymous  
228 12:40 am PST, Jan 23 FREE A. N. SELIMAN! / Victoria Mary Stong
227 7:15 am PDT, May 3 T Bennett  
226 6:59 am PDT, Apr 23 Susan Walker  
225 6:12 am PDT, Apr 9 Jimmy Jones  
224 7:54 am PDT, Mar 13 Jule Kertesz  
223 2:44 pm PST, Feb 27 Adriel benhaim  
222 1:44 pm PST, Feb 27 fatima w  
221 3:18 am PST, Feb 26 Anonymous  
220 3:20 pm PST, Feb 24 Anonymous  
219 3:10 pm PST, Feb 23 ait-ourir.com Hassan
218 1:07 pm PST, Feb 23 Anonymous  
217 10:11 am PST, Feb 23 Sally Hughes  
216 5:35 am PST, Feb 23 Ales Litvik  
215 12:58 am PST, Feb 23 Dimitri Vanpeteghem  
214 10:55 pm PST, Feb 22 Michael Nielsen  
213 3:59 pm PST, Feb 22 Denys Lund  
212 2:29 pm PST, Feb 22 Eva Martin  
211 12:11 pm PST, Feb 22 Renee C.  
210 11:05 am PST, Feb 22 Brenda S.  
209 2:54 pm PST, Jan 23 Fred Foshag  
208 9:19 am PST, Dec 27 Jessica-Dawn Drouin  
207 9:17 am PST, Dec 24 Roman Soiko
206 8:11 am PST, Dec 6 Jennifer Megeney  
205 12:30 pm PST, Dec 3 Corrina Lawson  
204 2:34 am PST, Nov 24 SUE CARSON  
203 10:26 am PST, Nov 16 melissa shanda  
202 11:59 am PST, Nov 15 Belinda Velasquez-Swickey  
201 7:13 am PST, Nov 10 hala elmasry  

Free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman

Dear Minister,

You have taken into custody Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, a blogger who was frequently critical of Islam and the state of Egypt. We are writing to ask you to immediately free this young man. His detention is bad for Egypt.

Egypt has a long, honorable tradition of critical thought that goes back to the famous library at Alexandria (where Abdolkarim is from) and beyond. Please continue that tradition of free thought in the service of an informed populace by freeing Abdolkarim.

Many who are signing this petition are critical of his criticisms, but believe it is healthier for the state for people to air those feelings rather than to let them fester. After all, both Egypt and Islam are larger than the thoughts of one man.

There has never been a blogger arrested in Egypt before. Respectfully, we believe that this is a step in the wrong direction, a step unworthy of Egypt.

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