Reposted from Global Viking

Tariq Baiasi, was surfing the internet one day, and happened to leave a comment on a public forum, criticizing the notorious security apparatus. Not long after that, on July 7th, 2007, he was arrested in his hometown of Banyas, never to be heard of again. As of today, Tariq has been in jail, without trial, for more than six months.

From Global Voices.

In Syria a lot of bloggers campaing for Tariq. Here is the campaign site. Sign the petition here.

Freedom of speech must be reached all around the world, in every nation. Sometimes I feel bad about the truth that in my country most blogs just deal with issues about which clothes to wear to what. I should not say that, but I wished we used blogging as a tool for freedom around the world.