A conference in defense of Electronic Press Freedom in Egypt is to be held at the Press Syndicate, Wednesday 20 June.
Speakers will include bloggers Alaa Seif, Nora Younis, Khadiga Malek and Abdel Moneim Mahmoud. The conference will start 7:30pm, following a half-hour sit-in in front of the syndicate to demand the release of detained journalists and denounce Mubarak’s regime’s crackdown on bloggers.
From AP:
Close to 100 Palestinian officials from the moderate Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip in the early hours Friday, Egyptian police said.
Hours later, the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza also returned to Egypt after failing in its mediation efforts between the warring Palestinian factions, said an official at the Rafah border crossing.
The Egyptian border official said the delegation chief, Col. Burhan Hamad, and five other members were heading to Cairo.
Fleeing aboard a fishing boat on the Mediterranean sea, 97 senior members of Fatah’s security and administrative apparatus arrived in the Egyptian port of Arish hours after fighters from the militant Hamas group took control of Gaza, an Egyptian security official in Arish said.
The retreating Fatah members were transferred to camps affiliated to Egypt’s security forces, a police official in Cairo confirmed.
Flee you fucking cowards! Run away to Egypt where Mubarak’s Gestapo, your disappointed mentors, are waiting… Down with Fatah! Down with Dahlah!
I love the way AP is covering the events. Abbas’s Fatah are “moderates”?!!! Moderates!!!?! This reminds me of how the wires just love referring to Mubarak and Abdullah of Jordan, both bloody criminal dictators, as “moderates.” But after all, we know the barometer of “moderation” for AP and the other western news outlets is always how brown-nosed the Arab ruler is when he deals with Washington.
From Reuters:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has told U.S. President George W. Bush he considers himself too old to carry out political reforms, an Egyptian dissident who met Bush said in an interview published on Wednesday.
“President Bush told me that President Mubarak claims that age has caught up with him and he is incapable of change, so let’s leave this to the next generation,” sociologist Saadeddin Ibrahim told the independent newspaper al-Dustour.
Ibrahim met Bush in Prague on June 5 as part of a group of dissidents from around the world. He was abroad on Wednesday and could not be contacted immediately, but his office confirmed he had given the interview to al-Dustour.
