Mohamed Radwan arrested

Mohamed Radwan, an Egyptian blogger with US citizenship who had been working in Syria for the past nine months as an engineer, was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. Using a procedure beloved of the Iranian government, the authorities showed him on national television two days later making a “confession.” His family dismissed the charges as nonsense (http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/28/family-of-us-prisoner-mohamed-radwan-in-syria-were-worried-he/). He was freed on 1 April.