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Three days before he was arrested at an anti-regime protest in downtown Cairo, award-winning Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah told TIME he knew he might pay a price for speaking out, but said he had developed a taste for freedom of speech and would not give up so easily...
...Qadi said Egypt's bloggers, many of whom are increasingly using the Web to mobilize and protest against the regime, may have become particular targets for arrest and abuse by state security forces because of their online activism - which has included posting pictures and videos that document human rights abuses...
...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...
...When he visited Al Sharqawi in prison after his beating, El Droubi was shocked how savagely he had appeared to be beaten. But while some of the other detainees seemed demoralized, El Droubi said the battered Al Sharqawi "was smiling and ready to go out and protest tomorrow, if he could. He can?t wait." And as long as computer-savvy activists like Al Sharqawi, El Droubi and Abdel Fatah refuse to be intimidated, it will be hard for the Mubarak regime to pull the plug on the political opposition in Egypt...
...founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...