This isn’t a blog famous for its cutting edge political commentary and that isn’t going to change today. However, as a fellow blogger and lover of free speech (see previous China blogs) I feel compelled to offer what support a small tech PR blog can to those bloggers who find it less than easy, indeed highly dangerous, to put their thoughts into the blogosphere.
Brought to my attention this morning by the Independent, is the plight of Fouad Al-Farhan, held in a Saudi Arabian jail without charge for over a month for his political blogging about the Saudi Government. Sadly these cases are all too common when you start digging and make you realise how easy we have it over here.
Calls are abound for Bush to do something about these ‘unlawful’ (at least in a British sense) imprisonments on his latest trip to Saudi. Owing to my lack of international political clout the best I can do is issue my support for free speech and maintain the hope, however misplaced, that Bush does something right for once.
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