Syrian Bloggers in Solidarity with Kareem Amer

Fellow bloggers worldwide, but especially Middle Eastern bloggers need to vehemently protest the sentencing of Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman (Blogger name: Kareem Amer) to a four year prison term for his dissenting views. We all realize that blogs afford us a degree of freedom of expression and exchange of ideas that is sorely lacking in our part of the world where information is tightly controlled by authoritative governments and where conservative societies stifle discussion of important topics that are considered taboo. I personally believe that such freedom of expression is vital to instigate reform and move the Middle East out of its intellectual and cultural stagnation.
I am asking all Syrian bloggers to post the following statement in support of Abdel Kareem's right to express his opinion freely. I welcome any suggestions as to the wording of the statement. Please leave me a comment when you post the statement on your blog:

We, as a community of Syrian bloggers, condemn the arrest and sentencing of Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman for the peaceful expression of his dissenting views. We ask the Egyptian government to reconsider its decision to arrest and prosecute Abdel Kareem. The stated reasons for their action include the preservation of the public peace and state security, and the prevention of incitement against Islam. We contend that his arrest will achieve neither. Silencing such dissenting voices as Abdel Kareem’s, serves only to strengthen the hands of extremists who will not shy away from violence to achieve their goals. Moreover, we remind the Egyptian government that his arrest and prosecution violates at least two articles (see below) of the 1948 United Nations universal declaration of human rights to which Egypt was a signatory.

Relevant United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles:

Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Such rights for freedom of expression are also enshrined in the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam and the 2003 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's religion