http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/01/06/why-we-blog/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:04:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/01/06/why-we-blog/#comment-473306 A challenge to our dictators at Antony Loewenstein Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:23:11 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/01/06/why-we-blog/#comment-473306 [...] Saudi Arabian blogger Fouad Al Farhan - who features in my book, The Blogging Revolution, and with whom I spent time in 2007 before his brief stint in prison - offers a challenge to authoritarian [...] [...] Saudi Arabian blogger Fouad Al Farhan - who features in my book, The Blogging Revolution, and with whom I spent time in 2007 before his brief stint in prison - offers a challenge to authoritarian [...]

]]> http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/01/06/why-we-blog/#comment-357181 Freedom one step at a time | Antony Loewenstein Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:31:39 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/01/06/why-we-blog/#comment-357181 [...] Fouad al-Farhan, Saudi’s most popular blogger, was arrested in Jeddah last month. It hardly came as a surprise. Mr al-Farhan, who wrote under his real name, had made his reputation railing against the corruption of the Saudi royal family. He had previously been warned that he risked being detained because of his support for a group of men arrested early last year and held without trial. They are accused of supporting terrorism, but their real offence appears to have been that they planned to form a civil rights group. If this were not provocation enough, Mr al-Farhan also listed his 10 least favourite Saudi figures online, which included a businessman prince, a prominent cleric, a minister and the head of the judiciary. [...] [...] Fouad al-Farhan, Saudi’s most popular blogger, was arrested in Jeddah last month. It hardly came as a surprise. Mr al-Farhan, who wrote under his real name, had made his reputation railing against the corruption of the Saudi royal family. He had previously been warned that he risked being detained because of his support for a group of men arrested early last year and held without trial. They are accused of supporting terrorism, but their real offence appears to have been that they planned to form a civil rights group. If this were not provocation enough, Mr al-Farhan also listed his 10 least favourite Saudi figures online, which included a businessman prince, a prominent cleric, a minister and the head of the judiciary. [...]

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