Update 2: Released! - Update on Fouad Al-Farhan: His blog goes down along with him
Update 2: Prominent Saudi blogger Fouad Alfarhan was freed today. He is back home in Jeddah after 137 days in custody. Alfarhan was arrested on 10 December 2007 for unspecified “violation of non-security regulations.” ~ Global Voices
I did post something about Fouad Al-Farhan few months ago in regards of his arrest and how the Western press pressured The Saudi Gov’t to say something about it, which was: The minister of interior has just told Washington Post that it is “only interrogation and not an actual arrest. And hey that interrogation still going as in he is still in jail.
I did post a poll few months ago as well asking if the web-community will be able to pressure the Saudi Gov’t to release the blogger Fouad and the result was unsurprisingly accurate:
But now, his blog has been blocked today in Saudi Arabia, along with Freefouad website dedicated to Alfarhan’s case and the pro-reformist blog Freedoms.
On March 11th, 2008, his nine-year old daughter, Raghad, has released a YouTube video message for her father saying: “Daddy I miss you. When are you coming back home?”
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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