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I would be interested to know how he failed to keep his anonymity when he claims he was anonymous yet Egyptian police arrested him.

• ajju 16y ago
  Once he was arrested, I assume it made a lot of sense both for him and his family/friends to 'out' him(self) as a senior executive at Google. This may have even saved his life. This assumes the Egyptian police hadn't already found out his identity from some other source before or after the arrest.
• kloncks 16y ago
  It's estimated that 10,000 people have been arrested. It's likely that most are still hidden away by the Interior Ministry. The fact that we had a face for this guy, and a title, and a link to a major corporation (that then asked for his release, setup a hotline and email, etc), probably really helped in the fact that he only stayed for 12 days, was treated well and subsequently released?