"Ibn Rushd" sent me this: "Sorbonne has opened a branch in AbuDhabi. A professor there has been
arrested and jailed for the past 6 months because he wrote anti-UAE-regime
comments on the Net.
France having a big military base in the UAE & excellent relations with
UAE leader is conspicuously silent. Sorbonne is also silent, saying he's only an
adjunct professor and that his pro-democracy activism is unrelated to his
teaching job. President of Human Rights Watch France is protesting
"Indigne de la tradition française. Alors que le monde arabe est traversé
par une vague historique en faveur de la liberté d'expression, de la démocratie,
de l'Etat de droit, comment justifier que M. bin Ghaith n'ait pas encore été
jugé digne de bénéficier d'une simple motion de soutien de la part de
l'université parisienne ?""
