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Two important updates on stories that we have covered over the past couple months!<\/p>\n

First, Sara Yasin\u00a0wrote recently about a blog called \u201cA Gay Girl in Damascus<\/a>,\u201d where Syrian-American blogger Amina Abdullah Arraf\u00a0has been writing about the revolution in Syria.\u00a0\u00a0 Amina Abdullah Arraf\u00a0was allegedly abducted on June 6<\/a>, and has not been heard from.\u00a0 Many news organizations<\/a> have since questioned her identity<\/a>, especially the pictures assumed to be hers were discovered to be of another woman, Jelena Lecic<\/a>. While we\u2019re all very curious about Amina\u2019s identity, an excellent quote from The Washington Post <\/em>blog helps keep us on the bigger picture: \u201cAgain, people should operate under the assumption that there is a real blogger under detention in Syria. Who they are is another matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in April, Tasnim looked at the media coverage of Iman al-Obeidi<\/a>, a Libyan woman who first made the news in late March, when she told foreign journalists at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli about her detention and rape by members of Gaddafi\u2019s militias.\u00a0 After being smuggled out of Libya, taking refuge in Qatar, and recently being expelled from Qatar and sent back to Libya, al-Obeidi is now apparently on her way to the United States<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the most recent news, she has arrived in Romania<\/a>, and may be staying there temporarily.<\/p>\n

Of course, despite the attention that these particular stories have received,\u00a0these women are not alone in the violence that they have experienced.\u00a0 These updates remind us also of the many others in Syria, Libya and elsewhere who have recently been arrested, imprisoned, tortured, raped, or killed.\u00a0 Our prayers go out to all of them.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (June 12, 2011): Amina was a hoax<\/a>. At this time, let\u2019s not focus on what an asshole the man behind this is, but on the very real danger that imprisoned journalists and bloggers in Syria and other countries are facing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"