Menassat 01 - www.mennasat.com

Installment 2 of the leading Arab press freedom website. This week, Mennasat features Wael Abbas from Egypt is the Arab internets unlikely superhero, and then there's the Video Sniper in Morocco who exposes police corruption wherever he goes - sparking a new trend Arab citizen journalism. We also feature Kareem Amer who on the first anniversary of his imprisonment in an Egyptian jail [yes, he had been imprisoned for blogging - defaming religion and the president] had people all over the world demonstrating for his release - vive la revolucion - and in an attempt to forever stop his blogging activities and to set an example to others, allegedly beat him on the same day. This abuse from a country that purports to value democratic principles such as freedom of the press. We also feature talk of Ammon.net in Amman - two guys sitting at web cafe with 60-year old men coming in to learn how to use the internet for the first time just to what's really going on in Jordan.

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