this goes to show the power of mainstream media coverage, even within the limits that i described in the previous blog. so, this is good news for the person released, but note the fact that the other person, who is not a german citizen, is still being detained. further note that the detention of that person was not even acknowledged in the times article, demonstrating that the whiter one is, the more important one is. remember too that egypt may be holding as many as 10,000 people without charge. but they are just egyptians after all, and therefore, don't rate articles in the times. in any case, this is good news.

German-Egyptian Activist Freed in Cairo

The Egyptian government has released an Egyptian-German student and blogger who had been arrested after taking part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Philip Rizk was nabbed by Egyptian security forces on Friday after he had completed a six-mile walk in protest of Egypt’s closure of its border with Gaza. Rizk writes the blog Tabula Gaza. He had just completed a short documentary about nonviolent protest against Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. A second blogger named Diaeddin Gad remains in detention. Egyptian security officials arrested the twenty-two-year-old blogger after he criticized the Egyptian government.