Category: Blog
Thousands turn out for London pro-Palestinian protest
From the Sharp Side:
Thousands marched through central London [Saturday] afternoon in the capital’s biggest ever pro-Palestinian protest, given particular topicality in view of the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war. Not that you’d know it from the BBC, which seems to have completely blanked the protest. It was a very much bigger march than the two previous ones I’ve been on. The organizers put the turn-out at 20,000 and I’m prepared to believe this is not an exaggeration, having watched the entire procession go past.
SS raid blogger’s house
State Security has raided the house of 26-year-old Muslim Brotherhood blogger Muhammad Mosaad Yaqout, early Sunday, in Balteem:
Egyptian security forces raided on Sunday at dawn, June, 10, 2007, the house of the writer and blogger, Muhammad Mossad Yaqout. The security forces raided the blogger’s house in Baltym, Kafr Al-Sheikh, at 2.00AM and disheveled the house furniture, seized the computer and a number of papers and books and they are still hunting Yaqout.
Yaqout said in a phone call with Ikhwanweb that”The security forces want to arrest me because I support Ghobashi Al-Atawi and Ashraf Al Sayyed, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the Shura Council midterm elections for the constituency of Baltym. They want to detain me also because of my anti-regime writings.
Yaqout, 26 years, confirmed that the State Security Police has no arrest warrant and it wants to detain him illegally. Yaqout, a researcher and web editor, is country chased by the security forces on groundless accusations.