Leading Egyptian Facebook Activist Arrested, Friends Say

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Leading Egyptian Facebook Activist Arrested, Friends Say
By David Wolman
February 2, 2011

An Egyptian Facebook activist and leader of the group known as the April 6 Youth has been arrested in Cairo, friends told Wired.com Wednesday in e-mails.

Ahmed Maher, 30, gained prominence in 2008 as one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth, a solidarity group launched to support protests. Organizing mostly online, especially on Facebook, it is a carefully decentralized network of activists, who have used the tools of social media to broadcast grievances with the Mubarak regime, mobilize support, evade the government’s ubiquitous security forces, and, now, help to bring the Mubarak regime to its knees.

Wired magazine published an article about the group in 2008. Its nascent, tech-fired rebellion helped ignite the revolution and the government backlash that has captured the world’s attention.

Maher and a friend launched a Facebook group to promote a protest planned for April 6, 2008. It became an internet phenomenon, quickly attracting more than 70,000 members. That protest died still-born, but Maher has continued to organize and has played a prominent role in the uprising of the past week aimed at toppling the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarark.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/leading-egyptian-facebook-activist-arrested-friends-say/#

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