I just gave a radio interview an hour ago, but the producer made sure beforehand to stress that I was not allowed to use “seven dirty words” on air: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits
Good to know.
Category: Blog
‘There is nothing called torture in Egypt,’ says General
This could well be an article from The Onion. Police General Samir Salam, Assistant to the Interior Minister for Prison Affairs, denied there were secret prisons in Egypt, and added that “There is nothing called torture in Egypt.”
Stop crackdowns on MBs, say rights activists
I received the following statement from HRINFO:
Egyptian human rights & law organizations said today that keeping silent about the continuous police campaign against hundreds of Egyptian citizens because of their being members of the Muslim Brotherhood, is becoming a collusion & participation in this systemic oppression, and therefore they must not keep silent.
Yesterday, security authorities have detained about 25 citizens from Sharqiya & Daqahliya cities in the delta region. They followed the usual routine of arresting MB members in the dark of the night, raiding into their houses & terrifying their family members who woke up on the noise of doors being broken & armed men threatening them.
The organizations signing this proclamation are denouncing the fact that news about random police campaigns & detentions of MB members from most of the governorates of Egypt are considered unworthy of publishing or even mentioning in most of Egyptian newspapers, with the exception of sparse brief news in some independent newspapers & some websites, as if it is becoming a trivial thing to arrest Egyptian citizens & oppressing them on the background of their political opinions as Islamist opposition.