Today is a ‘Blog Silence Day‘ to protest the imprisonment of Fouad Alfarhan
Fouad Alfarhan is a Saudi blogger who uses his blog, alfarhan.org, to promote political reform and greater freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to stop blogging at the beginning of 2007 after being harassed by government officials, but then resumed writing in July 2007. He was arrested without charge on Tuesday, December 11,2007, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
To learn more about the campaign to free Fouad, please visit the Free Fouad Blog, which has content in both Arabic and English