Egyptian Blogger taken in Detention
Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman is a 21 year-old Egyptian student of law at the
Azhar University, Damanhour Campus, a women’s-rights activist and a
correspondent for Copts United.
In addition to writing at Civic Dialogue, he also publishes at a blog he
maintains.
On Wednesday 26 October 2005, Egyptian State Security took Abdolkarim
from his home, and confiscated hard copies of his writings. He is now on
his way to an unknown detention. Three Egyptian bloggers visited
Abdolkarim’s family. The family attributed the state security raid to
his writings, although it was not clear if his blogging is directly
related. According to his brother, Abdolkarim’s relations with Islamist
Fundamentalists in his neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria, are
tense. It is possible that the fundamentalists have filed a security
complaint that led to his detention.