We've often talked of Truth here on this blog. Even in America, truth isn't always an easy thing to find.
In some places truth can get you killed, even if you are a web logger. Jane at Armies of Liberation is a web logger who has gone from blogging, to having her work published in the International press. Her stock in trade is writing about those places where truth may be the hardest thing to find ... if it's ever really found at all.
In the early hours of August 23rd in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, Jamal Amer, the editor of al-Wasat newspaper, was kidnapped as he was returning home. Mr. Amer was accosted by plain clothed security forces that blindfolded him and forced him into their car at gunpoint. They drove Mr. Amer to an unknown location and beat brutally him for hours. They threatened to throw him off a cliff. They shot at him and interrogated him about the paper’s funding. They threatened to behead him. They threatened his children.
Couldn't have said it better, Dan.
Posted by: don | Thursday, September 08, 2005 at 12:12 AM