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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Dostour Website STILL Run by Eissa Loyalists

Over two days after his firing, Ibrahim Eissa's loyalists still control the Al-Dostour website, and have posted the Foreign Policy piece on the death of Egypt's free press that I linked to yesterday.

At least so far, the electronic free press isn't dead yet. Meanwhile Egyptian blogger Baheyya has weighed in; she's always good but posts rarely (this is her first post since August).

Along with various Facebook groups, one of the better ways to track this ongoing drama is the dostor.org page, assuming you read Arabic, though I imagine the powers that be will wrest the URL away from the Eissa loyalists at some point.

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