Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Prosecution orders release of 21-year-old blogger

(Daily News)

A public prosecution office on Sunday ordered the release of a blogger detained for almost a month in Cairo’s Tora prison. Mohamed Refaat Bayyoumy, a 21-year-old student of mass communications, turned himself in to state security investigations on July 21 after security forces raided his apartment at midnight. Bayyoumy’s hard disk and various books were seized during the raid.

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