The notorious former director of security in Beheira, General Magdi Abu Qamar, whose troops massacred protesters on the Friday of Anger, 28 January 2011, has been acquitted of all murder charges, together with a number of policemen.
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Com’è bello l’Egitto degli influencer di Stato
I was interviewed by Italian journalist Laura Cappon, on Sisi’s regime online propaganda drive using social media influencers.
Read on »‘It is a global system of oppression, and we need to bring it down, in Cairo or Berlin’
I was interviewed by Phil Butland of Die Linke International.
Read on »‘The army is on their side!’
A video shot on the Friday of Anger, 28 January 2011, at the moment when the first army vehicles started moving into Tahrir via Qasr el-Nil Bridge. In the video you can see and hear cheers from the revolutionaries with great enthusiasm. This didn’t last long. They discovered the army was not coming in to
Read on »Protests in Sudan
Protests are sweeping Sudanese cities over living costs, and are met by brute force, arrests, tear gas and curfews.
Read on »Colombia’s dirty war
This is exactly what Sisi’s police and army are doing in Egypt. Colombia’s military carried out at least 6,400 extrajudicial killings and presented them as combat deaths between 2002 and 2008, a number significantly higher than previously estimated, a special court said Thursday. AFP
Read on »The Central Security Forces
This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces:
Read on »#Jan25 and dissent in Egypt
An online talk organized by Die Linke International:
Read on »Visualizing dissent: The mechanics behind the Egyptian revolution
My article for ROAR Magazine. UPDATE: The article is also available in Russian.
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