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30 arrested in Rafah on suspicion of smuggling fuel to Gaza

Posted on 11/10/200802/04/2015 By 3arabawy

Around 30 members of the same family were arrested from a neighborhood in the border town of Rafah on suspicion of smuggling solaar gas into Gaza.
According to sources in the area, 30 members of the Barahma family — part of the Barghoum tribe — were taken after security forces completely surrounded the neighborhood of Canada in Rafah all day Wednesday.
Additionally, the sources indicated that three women were also taken as some sort of “collateral” until their husbands turn themselves in. They also said that one member of that particular family had assaulted a border guard and the security mission was a retaliatory gesture.

Solidarity needed with MB activist

Posted on 11/10/200802/04/2015 By 3arabawy

Muslim Brotherhood activist Youssef Talaat, turned himself in to State Security Police on 9 October, after they intimidated his family.

Talaat, a pharmacist who resides in the Beheira province, is part of the Gaza Solidarity Campaign and one of the media coordinators for the Cairo Anti-War Conference.

There is serious concern about his safety in police custody. For more details about his case, check out this posting by Tadamon…

Egyptians’ anger approaches boiling point

Posted on 09/10/200803/01/2021 By 3arabawy

“Public disaffection with the government appears to have reached an all-time high,” reports IPS.

And speaking of public anger, I’ve just received news that citizens have set a police car on fire after it hit a woman in the town of Samalut.

UPDATE: It’s not a car accident as reported initially. It’s worse!

Around 100 Egyptians set fire to a police truck on a main road in central Egypt on Thursday after a pregnant woman died during a police raid on her house, police sources said.
Mervat Abdel Salam Abdel Fattah, 32, stood in the way of police looking for her brother in a case of theft in the town of Samalut, 200 km (120 miles) south of Cairo, they said.
A policeman hit her with the butt of his pistol and she fell and died, they added.
In revenge friends and relatives attacked and set fire to a police pickup truck on the road from Cairo to the southern city of Assiut. A brigadier was taken to hospital with injuries from a beating and most of the policemen fled, they said.

The pigs are of course denying any wrongdoing, claiming:

The woman was pushed to the ground by officers when she would not let them enter her home to look for her brother, a suspected thief, police said.
She was in the last stages of pregnancy and died of internal bleeding caused by the fall, police added.

UPDATE: Despite police intimidation, the HMLC lawyers managed to meet with Mervat’s family.