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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Egypt Is Cracking Down on Bloggers | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

...from the prisoner himself. A month later, El Droubi was released, but he and his friends continue to use the Web to relay news about those activists who remain in prison, many of whom have been placed in solitary confinement after starting a hunger strike in solidarity with Al Sharqawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Egypt Is Cracking Down on Bloggers | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Egypt Is Cracking Down on Bloggers | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

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