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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502024.html
Help Our Fight for Real Democracy in Egypt
[Washington Post] Wael Abbas - Last week I returned to my country, Egypt, after several weeks in the U.S. on a Freedom House fellowship. I feared that the authorities would arrest me as soon as I set foot on Egyptian soil. If I am arrested, it will be because as an Egyptian blogger I dared to speak the truth about President Hosni Mubarak's regime, which continues to receive billions in foreign aid from the U.S. government - including funds ostensibly intended to support democracy. It will be because I dared to expose the actions that have made Mubarak's administration one of the world's foremost violators of human rights. Is this the kind of regime you want your tax money to support?