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”In October 2008 the SSIS arrested blogger Hany Nazir under the Emergency Law following his blogging on allegedly sensitive religious issues. The MOI rejected several court orders for his release after his incarceration began. In August the ANHRI publicly asserted that prison officials attempted to pressure Nazir to convert to Islam in exchange for his release. At year’s end Nazir remained in prison. According to the government, the SSIS continued to detain Nazir under the Emergency Law for his own security, in light of public anger toward him because of his blogging.

Customs officials seized some of his personal property, including his laptop computer.

A separate Wikileaks-released cable from the American Embassy in Cairo reveals U. S. government concern with police brutality and prison conditions within Egypt. If the Wikileaks cable is to be believed, concern over police brutality had been raised by a U. S. representative in a meeting with senior Government of Egypt ( GOE) officials in January 2010.

Specifically, Egyptian Interior Ministry State Security ( SSIS) Director Hassan Abdel Rahman, in response to an American inquiry, is quoted as explaining to the U. S. representative that Egypt had not abused prisoners,“ in the past ten years” and

According to a January 2010 U. S. diplomatic cable originating from the American Embassy in Cairo, as released by Wikileaks, the State Department was informed of the enforcement of Emergency Law against Egyptian bloggers.

The cable details how the Egyptian government, “… jailed blogger Hany Nazir… following posts deemed offensive to Christianity and Islam.” The cable continued,“ The GOE ( Government of Egypt) has also imprisoned activist and blogger Musad Abu Fagr since December 2007… following posts about difficulties faced by Sinai Bedouin.”

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