From AFP:
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu al-Gheit made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday, the first such trip since 1990, saying it was the right time to expand relations between the two nations. “We feel it is the proper time to come to Iraq and launch deeper Iraq-Egypt relations,” Abu al-Gheit told reporters after talks with his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari.
They set him on fire, hit him with iron bars, put a knife on his throat, and dragged him in the street for 200 meters…
Muhammad Awad was detained few minutes ago by the police in front of the Cairo Press Syndicate in Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street.
UPDATE: More activists detained in Cairo and Mansoura, including Ghazl el-Mahalla’s Kamal el-Fayoumi and Muhammad Abdul Quddous of the Liberties’ Committee as they were trying to embark with others on a solidarity trip to Gaza that was due to take off today from in front of the Press Syndicate.
UPDATE: I just spoke with Ahmad Abdel Fattah. He is currently detained by the police inside a shop in downtown Cairo’s el-Sharawrbi Street after they confiscated his camera.
I’ll be posting the updates on Jaiku.
UPDATE: Check out this report by AFP.