Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
English: http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=35424
Français : http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=35423
For immediate release
December 22, 2009
EGYPT
Court rejects retrial for jailed blogger kareem amer
Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the Cairo court of
cassation today to reject a request by the lawyers of jailed blogger
Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, better known by the pen-name of Kareem
Amer, for his case to be retried. The judges said they would give the
reasons for their ruling on 26 December.
“This decision shows the Egyptian judicial system’s lack of
independence,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The authorities
decided to make an example of Kareem Amer in order to intimidate
Egyptians who use the Internet to express their views freely and
criticise the government. We hope the court will at least give a
detailed explanation to justify this arbitrary decision.”
Although all of Kareem Amer’s possibilities of appeal have been
exhausted, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has
petitioned a Cairo administrative court for his release under an
Egyptian law that allows the authorities to free prisoners for a “good
conduct” when they have completed three quarters of their sentence, as
Kareem Amer has. But it seems that interior minister Habib Ibrahim
Habib Al-Adli is opposed to this possibility.
Arrested in November 2006 and mistreated in prison, Kareem Amer was
given a four-year jail sentence on 22 February 2007 on charges of
“insulting” the president and Islam. The sentence was confirmed on
appeal on 12 March 2007.
He was arrested over the comments he had posted online criticising
discrimination against women in Egypt and authoritarian excess of the
government and the highest religious authorities including the Sunni
University of Al-Azhar.
Read the previous release on this case : http://www.rsf.org/Cairo-court-to-rule-on-jailed.html?var_mode=calcul
Read and sign the petition for Kareem Amer’s release: http://www.rsf.org/en-petition21993-Kareem_Amer_.html
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Communiqué de presse
22 décembre 2009
EGYPTE
La justice refuse un nouveau procès pour le blogueur Kareem Amer
La Cour de cassation du Caire a rejeté aujourd’hui, 22 décembre 2009,
la demande déposée par les avocats du blogueur égyptien Kareem Amer de
voir son cas rejugé. Les juges devraient faire connaître les motifs de
leur décision le 26 décembre.
Reporters sans frontières a condamné ce verdict, "qui montre le manque
d’indépendance de la justice égyptienne. Le gouvernement a décidé de
faire de Kareem Amer un exemple pour intimider ces internautes
égyptiens qui n’hésitent pas à s’exprimer librement sur la Toile en
critiquant le pouvoir en place". "Nous espérons qu’à tout le moins le
tribunal va fournir des explications détaillées pour justifier une
telle décision arbitraire", a ajouté l’organisation.
Même si toutes les possibilités de recours de la condamnation de
Kareem Amer sont désormais épuisées, l’Arabic Network for Human Rights
Information (ANHRI) a fait appel à la Cour administrative du Caire,
afin d’obtenir la libération du blogueur. La loi égyptienne permet en
effet une libération pour "bonne conduite" et après que le prisonnier
a purgé 75 % de sa peine, ce qui est le cas de Kareem Amer. Le
ministre de l’Intérieur, Habib Ibrahim Habib Al-Adli, semble toutefois
s’opposer à cette possibilité.
Arrêté en novembre 2006, Kareem Amer avait été condamné, le 22 février
2007, à quatre ans d’emprisonnement en première instance, une peine
confirmée par la cour d’appel, le 12 mars 2007, pour "insulte au
Président et à l’islam". Le blogueur a subi des mauvais traitements en
prison. Kareem Amer avait critiqué sur Internet la discrimination
infligée aux femmes en Egypte et dénonçait les dérives religieuses et
autoritaires du gouvernement et des plus hautes institutions
religieuses, dont l’université sunnite Al-Azhar.
Lire le communiqué précédent : http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=34772
Voir et signer la pétition pour la libération de Kareem Amer :
http://www.rsf.org/fr-petition21985-Kareem_Amer.html
Lucie Morillon
Responsable du bureau Internet et Libertés / Head of the Internet
Freedom Desk
Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
internet(a)rsf.org
+33 1 44 83 84 71
Skype: rsfnet
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce (a day late) the members of the jury for the
2011 Wikimania bids. The complete page with links can be found at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Jury>:
Voting members of the jury
* Delphine Ménard (Wikimania 2005, 2006 & 2008 organisation, chapters,
Wikimédia France)
* Austin Hair (Wikimania 2005 & 2006 organisation, chapters)
* Mariano Cecowski (Wikimania 2009 organisation, Wikimedia Argentina)
* Joseph Seddon (Wikimedia UK & Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid team)
* James Owen (Wikimedia Foundation Executive assistant to Sue Gardner &
Wikimania 2010 planning)
* Stuart West (Wikimedia Foundation Board)
* Teemu Leinonen (Advisory Board)
* Benjamin Mako Hill (Advisory Board)
Advisors
* Michael Snow (Wikimedia Foundation Board Chairperson)
* Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation - executive)
Moderator
Note that Moderators are neutral aides and will not act as representatives.
* James Forrester (Perennial Wikimania attendee)
* Phoebe Ayers (Programme and Wikimania 2006 organisation)
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Casey,
Thank you for checking in. Yes I got what I needed for my meetings with the wikimania 2010 organizers. Between what I pulled together from the staff and the postmortem we had very effective discussions. I feel confident in the planners ability to make quick and effective decisions.
Thank you,
James T Owen
------Original Message------
From: Casey Brown
Sender: casey(a)caseybrown.org
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Cc: James Owen
Cc: pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania post-morten/wrap up
Sent: Dec 12, 2009 09:46
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there was a postmortem conducted after Wikimania 2009. I
> recall a questioner but we cannot find the results. There is a page on a
> meta for Wikimania 2009 Tech Posmortem which was helpful but not completely
> what is needed. If you have this or any additional data from Wikimania 2009
> can you please forward it to James Owen as soon as possible, he needs it for
> meetings which occur Thursday. His email address is jowen(a)wikimedia.org
Did this ever get responded to?
The post-mortem that the local team was working on can be found at
<http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem>. From what they
told me a few weeks (months?) ago, it's not completely ready yet.
They were going to send an e-mail to the list when it was ready.
I'm a day and half late (sorry, I haven't checked list e-mail in two
weeks), but I figure someone else might be wondering too.
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
Does anyone know if there was a postmortem conducted after Wikimania
2009. I recall a questioner but we cannot find the results. There is
a page on a meta for Wikimania 2009 Tech Posmortem which was helpful
but not completely what is needed. If you have this or any additional
data from Wikimania 2009 can you please forward it to James Owen as
soon as possible, he needs it for meetings which occur Thursday. His
email address is jowen(a)wikimedia.org
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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It's not data, but there are notes from the "future of Wikimania" open
discussion that we had posted here:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_planning_discussion/notes
sorry I didn't send this out sooner.
-- phoebe
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, James Owen <jowen(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have the Wikimania 2009 Postmortem study, or any data which was
> collected after the conference?
>
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>
>
--- El vie 4-dic-09, James Owen <jowen(a)wikimedia.org> escribió:
>Does anyone have the Wikimania 2009 Postmortem study, or any data which >was collected after the conference?
It's not approved, nor finished, but it's [going to be available] here:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem
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Does anyone have the Wikimania 2009 Postmortem study, or any data
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James T. Owen
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