Rights group calls for release of Egyptian blogger
- Freedom of Expression, Human Rights -
HUMAN Rights Watch has called for the release of Egyptian TV journalist and blogger Abd al-Monim Mahmud.
Here’s an excerpt from the Human Rights Watch statement posted on the Human Rights Education Associates site.
Around midnight on April 14, security forces at the Cairo airport detained
`Abd al-Monim Mahmud, a 27-year-old journalist for the London-based
satellite channel Al-Hiwar and prominent blogger affiliated with the
Muslim Brotherhood, as he attempted to travel to Sudan to do reporting for
an Al-Hiwar segment on human rights in the Arab world.
