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Jon Notabot's avatar

Thank you Sharif. This piece proves, once again, that fearless journalists - serious journalists - are perhaps our best chance to create a more just and truthful world. Their imprisonment - and often outright murder - is the tell. Various forces across the globe, insistent on human domination, are very afraid of one thing: regular people - armed with truth.

Jon Notabot's avatar

Here's another tell of a different nature: if Ahmed Shihab-Eldin were instead a bro named "Joe Smith" from Fox so-called "news" I think most people know there'd be a massive uproar from the US establishment.

GoodEve Rising's avatar

This is terrible news, He was doing such important work. How do we get him out?

George Leone's avatar

If posting publicly available footage is now “terrorism,” then journalism itself is being criminalized. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin isn’t a threat to national security—he’s a threat to unchecked power. This is what wartime censorship looks like. Free him.

Ola's avatar

I am so shocked and upset by this news. This is really outrageous! How can we help get him and others released. Should activists demonstrate in front of the Kuwaiti consulate or embassy? I will pray for his quick release from prison.

abdalmusawwir's avatar

Thanks for this report, haven't seen it elsewhere. One has to wonder too whether Ahmed being an out gay man had something to do with this, unofficially of course :(