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(UPDATE: Sandmonkey OK, tweets!) Sandmonkey arrest rumors spreading

Sandmonkey tweets!:

will tell the story later . Thank you all. I just need to rest now. #jan25

I am ok. I got out. I was ambushed & beaten by the police, my phone confiscated , my car ripped apar& supplies taken #jan25

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Roger L. Simon tries to contact Sandmonkey’s confiscated cell phone — perhaps a Mubarak thug will answer?

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A tweet from CynthFarah, whose brother Amir Farahat was apparently arrested and released along with Sandmonkey:

@Sandmonkey #Sandmonkey and my brother have been released but badly beaten by Mubarak’s militia, the broke my brother’s teeth.

And this, from CandaceHetchler:

from Amir: RT @flingpooatu: @CandaceHetchler i never felt such fear, we @Sandmonkey did not escape, were released by high ranking officers.

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Michael Totten has kindly posted Sandmonkey’s entire last post prior to his detainment. Read here.

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RamyYaacoub tweets me directly:

@DavidSPJM He does not have a cellphone, and his laptop is not in the location he is going too

Keep checking back here, we’ll get you a Sandmonkey interview as soon as we can.
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Trying to contact RamyYaacoub and Sandmonkey now, we hope Ramy’s latest tweets are true:

OnPhone W/ @SandMonkey: “My car is completely destoryed, my cellphone was taken, we were saved by my friend’s extra phone” #SandMonkey

OnPhone W/ @SandMonkey: “We were just released after a 2 hour arrest, the beating came before the arrest” #SandMonkey

OnPhone W/ @SandMonkey: “We were released, we did NOT run away . . . heading back to safety now” #SandMonkey

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Great news from RemyYaacoub?:

Update #SandMonkey: Correction, its seems that they escaped. @Sandmonkey is still on the run with a friend #Jan25

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Just hours after Roger L. Simon conducted a phone interview with Sandmonkey, the Guardian is reporting that Sandmonkey has been arrested, his blog is down, and Twitter is awash with rumors of the same.

Here is Sandmonkey’s last blog post prior to going offline.

See this tweet from RamyYacoub:

I just called @SandMonkey ‘s phone and a man answered and he asked me who I am, I said where is monkey, he said your c*nt friend is arrested

Also this, from the BBC:

1334: Ahmed Rasheed in Cairo tells the BBC: “Two of my friends have been arrested – one is the blogger Sandmonkey. They were trying to get food and medical supplies. These thugs [supporters of Mubarak] are arresting people and delivering them to the secret police. I was at the protest last night and I got injured after a stone was thrown at my head. I’m going to go back today and get food and medical supplies, if I don’t get arrested.” Sandmonkey’s blog appears to have been suspended.

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7 Comments, 6 Threads, 7 Trackbacks

1. d

his last post is reposted here:

http://sandmonkeycache.blogspot.com/

February 3, 2011 - 6:38 am Link to this Comment
2. hepzeeba

PJM: Thank you for tracking the Sandmonkey.

February 3, 2011 - 9:11 am Link to this Comment
3. Sissy Willis

Sandmonkey, a fellow blogger I’ve known from the Danish Cartoon days, says in Roger’s interview that he’d like to tell his story to Fox. Mentions Beck in particular. I suggest Roger contact Beck and also Greta Van Susteren, who is an active twitterer easy to engage online. She does great interviews of important figures others ignore.

http://twitter.com/#!/gretawire = Greta on Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/Sandmonkey

February 3, 2011 - 9:12 am Link to this Comment
4. meyer

Can someone please explain something to me? So the website sandmonkey.org has been suspended. But why? Unless I am missing something it is (was) on the servers of

Liquid Web, Inc. 4210 Creyts Rd. Lansing MI US 48917

Why the heck does an American hosting company suspend such a website? I find that quite a scandal actually. Maybe they were contacted by the Egpytian authorities asking them to shut it down. Okay, but why, again, why does an American company listen to the Egpytian authorities, especially in the current situation?

Maybe someone in the US can ask Liquid Web what is going on there?

February 3, 2011 - 9:36 am Link to this Comment
- Kathy Kinsley
  
  Possible the US asked them to take it down.
  OR Sandmonkey did, to protect himself.
  OR (and this is actually fairly likely since the usually bill on the first) it’s just a sort of coincidence. With all that’s been going on, he may have missed paying them.
  
  February 3, 2011 - 10:22 am Link to this Comment
5. Shauna

If things go badly for the protesters, I hope someone who knows these brave people can get them–whatever that status is when their government might kill them… to come here or wherever.

February 3, 2011 - 9:56 am Link to this Comment
6. marcia

sorry guys…im not buying any of this, brothers are involved, Israel gas lines attacked…your protest is off, mubarak still there…no peace with sharia

February 5, 2011 - 4:33 pm Link to this Comment