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Egyptian girl disappears for 16 days after creating Facebook group

Nicholas Carlson · 05/01/08 01:40PM

Eygptian woman Esraa Abdel-Fattah created the Facebook group "6 April: A Nationwide Strike." On April 7, she disappeared for 16 days. After her mother bought an ad in the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Yom pleading for her daughter's release, the government finally obliged. But Abdel-Fattah learned her lesson. "I have not heard about any coming strike nor do I want to hear about it," she told Al-Ahram, a weekly paper. Her uncle, the weekly also reports, said Abdel-Fattah agreed to get rid of her computer. The Egyptian government is now said to be deciding between blocking Facebook entirely or continuing to use it to spy on its citizens.