November 04, 2005 09:00 AM UTC

At Least They're Not Your (Our) Legislators

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• by: Colorado Pols

For another edition of “At Least They’re Not Your Legislators,” we head to Cairo, where we are really glad they aren’t OUR public officials. We’re too delicate for prison. From the Associated Press:

Libya has sent to prison for 18 months a blogger who criticized the government on the Internet, Human Rights Watch says in a report that inspired a series of Web tributes to the dissident Friday.

Al-Mansuri, 52, was detained in Tobruk, his hometown, in January after publishing about 50 articles critical of Libyan society and government on a dissident Web site based in Britain, http://www.akhbar-libya.com, the rights group said Thursday. Libyan government officials were not available for comment Friday as the country was celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows the holy month of Ramadan.