Salamander

I write to demand the release of Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, a 22-year-old Egyptian blogger who has been arrested by authorities in Alexandria, Egypt.

Abdelkareem is an internationally-recognized young blogger, and I cannot stay silent while Egyptian authorities arrest him for exercising his freedom of speech.

On Monday, November 6, Abdelkareem was interrogated by prosecutors in the Mohram Bek district of Alexandra. The security officials challenged Abdelkareem over opinion columns he has posted on his weblog, http://karam903.blogspot.com/.

A human rights lawyer from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information was present to represent Abdelkareem. But the police still decided to arrest him.