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February 11, 2009

German-Egyptian Activist Freed in Cairo
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The Egyptian government has released an Egyptian-German student and
blogger who had been arrested after taking part in a protest in
solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Philip Rizk was nabbed by Egyptian
security forces on Friday after he had completed a six-mile walk in
protest of Egypt’s closure of its border with Gaza. Rizk writes the blog
Tabula Gaza. He had just completed a short documentary about nonviolent
protest against Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. A second blogger
named Diaeddin Gad remains in detention. Egyptian security officials
arrested the twenty-two-year-old blogger after he criticized the
Egyptian government.



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