Outspoken criticism of Muslim extremists and Egypt’s president earns an Egyptian man a four-year prison sentence.
Here the article on WIRED

It always makes me sad to read such things, if I imagine some men in black suits come arresting me for issuing critizism on my company, the major of Amsterdam or the Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende… Just imagine.. he is being mocked in almost every newspaper.

On the other hand: these people are not running a blog to remember the time when they had time to write a diary and to entertain themselves, they use it as a political means to get their voice heard in a system that does not allow free speech. Makes me feel silly, somehow.

I who complain that some neighbourhood gang has vandalized my motorcycle in front of my house on wednesday. tearing cables and the battery out. Pityful compared with people that risk torture and jail for writing a blog.