Category: Blog
Judge Murad is after my blog too
The new list of 50 blogs Judge Abdel Fatth Murad wants to block, includes mine.
Interesting how the guy lists the blogs he wants the government to block. According to Murad, our blogs and websites “harm Egypt’s national interests and defame President Hosni Mubarak.” However, the judge usually doesn’t list the blog url. He chooses the urls of postings about him. When you look at the list, you’ll find a posting of mine, listed as number 33. In that posting, I ran one of HR-Info’s statements on the case. So our judge is basically after anyone who’s exposing his fabrications and lies.
Read Nora Younis’s post on Egypt’s War on Blogs.
Police clash with slum fire victims
Here’s a video of the clashes that happened between the police and the residents of Qale’t Kabsh slum, who were demonstrating in Tahrir Square last week demanding compensation from the government after their houses were burnt down.
The government did find an alternative housing for only 100 families last Monday, resettling them in El-Nahda neighborhood, Madinet el-Salam. On the same day, Central Security Forces raided the slum again, and rounded up roughly 70 men, and took them in two prison trucks, throwing one group in the desert on the Cairo-Suez road and another near Tora, south of Cairo. They were warned if they demonstrate again, “they’ll be taken behind the sun,” according to a leftist activist who is in touch with the slum community leaders.