A child is born…
And his father, Alaa, a prisoner of conscience in Egypt, has today been released from detention [while investigations continue]…
The Egyptian blogger, Alaa [Abd El Fattah], has been jailed for weeks [54 days, as it happens] by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Armed Forces [SCAF], for refusing to appear before a military court and in connection with accusations about his role in protests against the military government.
Alaa has now just reportedly been freed today, just weeks after his son, Khaled, was born [within hours of a court appearance by Alaa’s heavily pregnant wife, Manal, to plead for Alaa’s freedom].
Alaa and Manal named their son Khaled after Khaled al-Said [see our earlier posts, here], an Egyptian blogger whose beating to death by Egyptian policemen in Alexandria in June 2010 eventually mobilized the big protest in Tahrir Square on #25Jan this year]…
[For further information on the Khaled Said story, our earlier posts are here, here, and here.]
UPDATE: Tonight, Alaa Tweeted: “watching my wife feed my son for the first time, bliss”
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