Abdolkarim freed

After 18 days in custody, six in al Farana state security office, and 12 in Tora Prison(not the nicest place to be) Abdolkarim was released yesterday morning.

What strikes me as interesting, is the fact that his detention stired a heated debate , within the egyptian bloggosphere, about what he said, and whether or not it was right to defend him ? Was this a case of free speech or indeed the complete opposite, hate speech ?

While causing such a stir, by being taken into custody, his release dosen´t seem to catch that much attention within the egyptian bloggcommunity. 147 people signed the committee to protect bloggerspetiton for his release, i have no way of knowing if this is much, normal or less than usual in similar cases.

My conclussion is this , if Abdolkarim had not been taken into custody, not many people would have read what he wrote, and his words would have been long forgotten. Instead most people seems to be more upset about what he wrote, than the fact that he was taken in to custody.

To read more about the original debate, go here

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