Moroccan Fouad Freed Today 19 March
Sami Ben Gharbia, Global Voices Advocacy

Fouad Mortada, the 26-year old IT engineer who has been arrested on February 5th, 2008 and sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of $1350 for creating a fake Facebook profile of King Mohammed VI’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, has been released about an hour ago. According to a source close to Help Fouad campaign, Fouad got a full royal pardon and left the Oukacha Prison (Casablanca) at approximately 8:00pm and is on his way home.


"In conjunction with FreeKareem.org, the Committee to Protect Bloggers is
launching a mail campaign in support of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem
Amer," announced the Committee to Protect Bloggers. The campaign, from April 7
to 21, encourages people from around the world to send Kareem postcards and
letters. Since being sentenced in February last year for four years in prison,
Kareem has received around 1,500 letters from supporters.

Links:
[1] https://www.freekareem.org/
[2] https://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/03/19/flood-the-jail-with-mail/