Recent Posts Tagged With ahmed maher ibrahim

• Longish feature article on April 6th youth

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 03:55 am in facebook, esraá abd al fattah ahmed, bilal diab, ahmed maher ibrahim, april 6th youth

  Samantha Shapiro has penned a longish feature article in the New York Times Magazine on April 6th youth, called ¨Revolution, facebook-style¨. I´ve only managed to skim through it very quickly this morning. You can find it here. I might comment o...

• Alexandria Appeals Court orders release of 6 April Youth

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 08:37 pm in alexandria, ahmed maher ibrahim, april 6th youth, shabab 6 april, ahmed afifi, 6 april youth, muhammed taher

  An Appeals Court in Alexandria has ordered the release of 14 activists from Shabab 6 April ,that was arrested on the 23rd of July. It´s still too early to celebrate though, in the past, many a times, release orders have been issued, and then igno...

• 15 activists arrested at Sidi Bishr in Alexandria, Ahmed Maher among them

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm in alexandria, national day, ayman nour, ahmed maher ibrahim, april 6th youth, ghad youth, july 23rd

  BREAKING STORY -14 activists from Ghad Youth and the April 6th Youth has been arrested at the Sidi Bishr beach in Alexandria. They were singing songs about Egypt and raised the Egyptian flag on the beach as well as wearing T-shirts with 6th of April ...

• Important piece by Knickmeyer/Younis on Ahmed Maher and Facebook

  Posted on Sunday May 18th, 2008 at 07:28 am in esraá abd al fattah ahmed, ahmed maher ibrahim, nora younis, knickmeyer

  WaPo has a piece this morninng by Knickmeyer/Younis on Ahmed Maher and Facebook activism in Egypt. I¨ll write more later, but do take some time to read the story. Good work Ellen & Nora! More on Ahmed Maher´s ordeal here....

• HRW Statement on Ahmed Maher

  Posted on Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 05:16 am in police brutality, hrw, brutality, imad al kabir, muhamed al sharqawi, al qahira al jadida, lazougly, abd al halim qandil, ahmed maher ibrahim, karim ash shaér, behind th sun

  Human Rights Watch issued a statement on Ahmed Maher two days ago. It urges the Egyptian authorities to investigate the case. On May 7th, the facebook activist´s car was stopped on the street and he was pulled into a minibuss by eight-12 men in civ...