Activists protested on the steps of Cairo’s Press Syndicate, Wednesday night, in solidarity with journalist Youssef Shaaban.
The Prosecutor ordered his release today Thursday. Mabrouk.
Freedom from fear
A paranoid regime
I got this message from a BBC source:
A team from BBC Arabic was in Cairo to record a big prog about elections, with audience and invited parliamentary candidates, including MB of course. They agreed with a local video company, booked studio and in the last minute .. guess what? The company got a phone call , and the whole thing was canceled on spurious grounds of course. now they are coming home empty-handed.
If any further evidence was needed for the govt growing paranoia.
Press Conference
A press conference will be held today, Thursday 6pm, at the Center for Socialist Studies, where Muslim Brotherhood activists from Alexandria will speak about the electoral violations, police violence and detentions.
Police clash with coptic protesters in Giza; 1 killed
Police violently clashed with Coptic protesters in Omraniya, Wednesday morning, after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Giza Governorate HQ, denouncing the authorities’ halt of a church construction. At least one protester was killed, more than 50 were injured.
A journalist friend present in the scene confirmed there was a number of Muslim protesters who also joined the rioting against the police in solidarity. Moreover, the Coptic protesters chanted “Long live the Cross with the Crescent” – a 1919 revolution slogan that supports national unity against the oppressor.
One of the eyewitnesses, in the Al-Jazeera report below, also said that the Copts made it clear they “had no quarrels with Muslims, only with the government.”