Kyle Lutze wrote: > it would be > very disconcerting to have to be watching what we say in egypt to > make sure we don't end up in jail. > > so in short, I believe the question is what guarantees will the > attendees and speakers have that they will not be arrested even if > they say something that the government doesn't agree with? > Common sense is your best guarantee. The best advice for anyone who travels to any other country is, "Don't act stupid." If you stand in the middle of Tien An Min Square in Beijing and start making public speeches condemning Chinese human rights policies, you're asking to be arrested... especially if you do it in Chinese instead of English. If there is a problem with human rights in another country it's up to the people there to fix it. The circumstances where foreign meddling might be justified are so exceptional, that those places can never reach the point of even asking for a Wikimania.
If attendees start carrying on about the lack of Egyptian democracy, the easiest countermeasure is not to report it (in Arabic) in the local media. They know these foreigners are only there for a short while, and the last thing they would want is an international incident. That would not be good for Egypt's very important tourist industry. Ec _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
