FT correspondents in Cairo, Rhiyadh and Dubai have been investigating how social networking and sites like Facebook and Twitter are being used in the Arab world, beyond the protests in Iran:
“When Wael Abbas, an Egyptian blogger and political activist, was detained by prosecutors in April after an altercation with his neighbour, a police officer, he used Twitter, the social networking website, to keep the world updated on his interrogation.”
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