Per is a great journalist who helped me get connected when I was in Egypt. Looks like Cairo has decided to keep dissenting journalists out of the country. This is a big step backward for press freedom. From Hossam el-Hamalawy:
Swedish journalist detained at Cairo airport
Publishedon September 29, 2009
Swedish journalist and blogger Per Bjorklund has been stopped around half an hour ago at the Cairo Airport. An Immigration Police Officer told him his “name [was] on the computer,†according to Per with whom I spoke on the phone few mins ago.
Per is in some room at the airport, where there are other people, and he awaits an explanation from the police.
Per has been one of the most active foreign journalists (if not the most active) in covering the Egyptian strike wave and human rights abuses, stringing for a number of Swedish publications as well as activist websites like the Electronic Intifada.It’s 4:20am now: Per has been told by the Egyptian police he will be deported to Prague (from where he arrived) on the next plane.
It’s 4:44am now: Per’s mobile is switched off.
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