Syria: Bloggers Rally for Anas Maarawi · Global Voices
Yazan Badran

This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011.
Anas Maarawi is the latest Syrian blogger to have been imprisoned. He was detained on Friday July 1, 2011, in his neighborhood of Kafarsouseh in Damascus, and nothing has been heard of him since.
Anas is a well known blogger in Syria and beyond. Apart from his personal blog, Anas Online, he ran a number of tech-blogs and projects, most prominently, Ardroid, which was the first Arabic-language blog to focus on Google's Android OS.
His arrest prompted a campaign for his release. A dedicated blog was set-up, as well as a Facebook page and a Twitter hash tag, #FreeAnas. Many Arabic tech-blogs participated in the campaign, starting with his own pet-project, Ardroid [ar]:
You may have been wondering about the disappearance of our friend Anas Maarawi, whom, we've become used to his special daily articles on this blog. Anas was detained on Friday 1-7-2011, in Kafarsouseh, Damascus. And we have had no information about him since.
Anas Maarawi is one of the finest of Syria's younger generation. He's a blogger, web developer, and an open-source enthusiast. He's also the founder of Ardroid.
The campaign also circulated a video about Anas:
Tech-World, another Arabic tech-blog, wrote about Anas’ arrest [ar]:
This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011.