Google exec/activist 'released' by Egyptian authorities
Wael Ghonim had been missing for two weeks
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A Google executive who is believed to have been held in detention in Cairo since last month has been released, according to reports.
Wael Ghonim, Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, disappeared some time after 27 January, when public protests against President Hosni Mubarak began. The company launched a public appeal for information about him last week.
Ghonim had joined the protests in Cairo on 25 January, and had regularly tweeted updates – until 27 January. He has since been named as one of the administrators of the Facebook pages used to coordinate the protests in the country.
Reports last night suggested the Egyptian government had confirmed he was in detention, along with other social networking revolutionaries/activists ... and would be released today.
Reuters cites local reports that Ghonim has now been released, while CNN reporter Ben Wedeman has tweeted his release, though he added "not that he is in Tahrir" ... ®
COMMENTS
Journalist 'communicates' something...
Wondering the implication of the quote marks in the headline.
Do you not think he really went missing, or that he has not really been released, or what?
Quotes are only usually used in a headline in that way to indicate either euphemism or disbelief, but the articles themselves give little indication. I would have assumed it to just be sloppy headline writing were it not for the fact that the quotes are used in that way in the headlines for the articles on him going missing as well.
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