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Abu Omar's wife banned from traveling to Italy

Posted on By 3arabawy

Abu Omar‘s wife and her son were banned by State Security from traveling to Italy Friday early morning.

Abu Omar at the Lawyers' Syndicate أبو عمر بنقابة المحامين

Nabila Ghali, 38, and 14-year-old Italian-born Muhammad Abdel Hakim were due to leave Alexandria today on a 4am flight to Milan via Athens, using their Egyptian passports.

“I’ve been trying to get permission from State Security for the past two weeks, without much success,” Abu Omar told me. “I called them up myself, and asked (lawyer) Montasser (el-Zayat) and Islamist leaders to intervene also on my behalf. Finally State Security Major Faisal in Alexandria, who is one of the officers assigned my case, told me it was OK, and that Om Muhammad can leave from the Nozha airport.”

When they arrived at the airport, however, Nabila and Muhammad were banned from traveling by State Security agents, who denied receiving permission form the bureau, either in Cairo or Alexandria.

Chinese students riot against police brutality

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From the BBC:

Hundreds of students have rioted against the police in central China after a fellow student was beaten up by city inspectors, witnesses said.
Students from a number of universities in Zhengzhou, Henan province, burned cars in the four-hour rampage.
They came out onto the streets after inspectors were accused of assaulting a woman student who had set up a street stall, knocking out her front teeth.
A number of inspectors have been disciplined over the incident.
The unrest broke out on Wednesday, after the student was beaten up for apparently selling items on the street without a licence.
As many as 1,000 students from at least three universities took part in the protest, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights said.