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Syrian Blogger Razan Ghazzawi Arrested
December 5, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
When I met Razan Ghazzawi in Tunisia back in early October, I told her that I admire her courage for blogging about the Syrian revolution from inside Syria. “Aren’t you afraid of being arrested?” I asked her.
The soft-spoken Damascene responded that people like her — urban dwellers who complain in English about the regime online — are not even on the regime’s radar. “We’re too insignificant for them”, she assured me.
A few weeks have passed and we now know, unfortunately, that she was wrong. This is either a sign that the Syrian regime is panicking, or a sign that it has just been waiting for the opportune time to pounce.
In either case, kindly show your support for Razan by following the #FreeRazan hashtag on twitter and spreading the word.