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Kefaya activists Nadia Mabrouk and her fiance Waleed Salah are spending the night in Qasr el-Nil Police Station, and will be transferred to the prosecutor in the morning on charges of possessing leaflets of anti-regime inflammatory contents, disturbing public order, etc..
I was told by their lawyer that

I received the following press release from ACIJLP…

Public Prosecution Asks for Nasser Amin’s Testimony Concerning His Complaints against the Interior Minister
The South Cairo Prosecution on 23 November 2006 reque..

In what more or less has become a routine, Mubarak’s regime decided to extend the detention of two Muslim Brotherhood activists, I have so much respect for. They had been arrested around six months ago for leading demonstrations in support of judicial independence from Mubarak’s executive authorities.
I’m really sadened by this, and even more upset that the MB is mobilizing tens of thousands..

The Tora Cement workers strike enters its fifth day, as negotiations continue with union leaders on their hospital beds. Mohamed Abdel Monsef, the union leader at the factory, together with his deputy Mohamed Ramzi, and two other union officials, Shaaban Ezzat Abdel Qader and Karam el-Sayyed Allam–all have been on a hungerstrike since 1,000 workers laid down their tools and stopped production a..

The security crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood leaders and student activists is the beginning for a wider crackdown on all forms of dissent in Egypt, Kefaya said today in a statement.

The movement extended its solidarity to the Islamist opposition, warnin..

A new letter sent by a group of detainees in Al-Wadi Al-Gadid Prison to the editor of Torture In Egypt blog details some of the horrors in Mubarak’s gulags.

In their letter, the detainees complained of continuous verbal abuse, severe beatings from prison officers, which finally led to one of the detainees, Ahmad Abdel Sadek Ibrahim, to try committing suicide, after his hands and fee..

The Boulaq al-Dakrour Police Station agents involved in the sexual abuse of driver Emad Kabeer have been officially referred by the prosecutor to court, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm today. The South Cairo Pros..

Fellow Egyptians, if you show up for a demo in the future, and you find the Gestapo standing far away without intervening in the protest, but suddenly you feel you are on fire for some reason, then this will mean that the Egyptian Gestapo has bought ..

I’ve just received news that a force from the Imbaba Police Station went into the house of Ihab Magdi Farouk at 2am, and detained his father, a couple of hours after Al-Masry Al-Youm’s issue hit the night news stand, with Ihab’s interview ex..

A Western journalist who recently lunched with Mohamed Hassanein Heikal asked him about presidential succesion in Egypt, and what chances Jimmi had regarding inheriting the country’s rule from his dady:

[Heikal] was adamant that Gamal Mubarak would not be the ..

Mathew uploaded to his flickr account some pictures he took of the violence that engulfed downtown Cairo on 21 March 2003, following the outbreak of the US-led war on Iraq. More than 40,000 took control of downtown, but the scene went down into chaos with the severe police brutality against..

Police cracked down on Kefaya’s demonstration against Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional reforms on Thursday, detaining more than 35 activists.

I arrived in Tahrir Sq by 5pm… The last time I recall seeing Cairo as I saw it today, was probably in March 2003 with the crackdown on the anti-war riots. Central Security Forces trucks were everywhere. I spotted at least seven trucks by the..

The NYC-based rights watchdog issued a statement today, calling on the regime to stop targeting bloggers, and investigate the torture and sexual abuse against leftist blogger Mohamed el-Sharqawi, who was brutalized and sodomized by a..