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Wael Abbas was one of the guests at the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest last autumn (I wrote a post here about his fascinating story, online activism and struggle). On the 21st of January the court of Hadayek ElQobba, upheld the sentence against of six months imprisonment. Find below more info about the imprisonment and about how you can support Wael:

تأييد الحكم بحبسي ستة أشهر

تأييد الحكم بحبسي ستة أشهر
Upholding the Imprisonment Sentence of Blogger Wael Abbas, Six Months In Jail

Cairo on 21/1/2010

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said that the misdemeanor court of Hadayek ElQobba, upheld the sentence against the blogger “Wael Abbas” of six months imprisonment and LE 500 pounds as a judiciary bail in order that he would not attend the appeal hearing. The lawsuit was filed against Wael by a citizen and his police officer brother on charges of “damaging an internet cable”.

The case comes in a series of multiple violations against Abbas as consequences to what he publishes on his blog http://misrdigital.blogspirit.com” where he monitors and exposes many crimes of torture committed by the government against citizens. The verdict is a threat to the blogger to force him stop blogging. Continue reading ‘Wael Abbas, World Blogging Forum member, sentenced in Egypt’

A List Bloggers from 30 countries will come in Romania in november to join The World Blogging Forum.

Continue reading ‘World Blogging Forum – WBF2009, Bucharest, Romania’

1. Yahoo creates new council to boost online advertising, BrandRepublic reports (Indirectly, will also influence Romania on the long run):

LONDON – Yahoo is forming an advisory council to explore digital opportunities with its advertiser and media agency partners. The Digital Advisory Council, which will consist of around 20 leading media and advertising industry executives, will work to explore digital media and online advertising opportunities. Continue reading ‘News to read between two meetings’

Here is a movie about media failing to report important issues. I’ve decided to post this movie because it presents some important points of view although skeptics could rate it as subversive low-profile leftist propaganda. If so, try to hear the rational ideas expressed by Chris Crames – CNN:

The most important news for Romania this week was the release regarding the budget for 2008. The media failed to cover this and the whole focus went to a scandal regarding a bribery.

Across the oil and natural gas industry, 1.5 percent of the total outstanding shares of its public companies are owned by the officers and board members of those companies (“insiders”), compared to 29 percent owned by individual investors who manage their own holdings and who are not insiders, 42.7 percent owned or held by mutual funds and other asset management companies that have mutual funds, 18.1 percent owned or held by asset management companies that do not have mutual funds, and the remaining 8.7 percent owned or held and directly managed by pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, banks and other financial institutions:

Here is the full study (download PDF) (Robert J. Shapiro and Nam D. Pham)

Of course, you can always wonder who owns the asset management firms

Further reading and References: Continue reading ‘Who owns big oil?’