Pro-Gaza demos in downtown Cairo, Helwan University

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Hundreds demonstrated Monday afternoon in solidarity with Gaza, denouncing the real Axis of Evil: The US, Israel and the Arab regimes:

Holding up newspaper pictures of the victims of the latest Israeli assault on Gaza, and placards reading “our hearts are with you Gaza,” the roughly 100 protesters chanted “down with Bush, down with Israel,” “Mubarak, the blood of the martyrs is on your hands” and “in order to free Jerusalem, we must free Egypt.”
Various political currents, including left-wing and Islamic groups, took part in the protest, organized by opposition group Kefaya.

Sarah Carr covered the protest, for the Daily News Egypt.

Down with Israel

I received news also that the Socialist Students mobilized hundreds in Helwan University, simultaneously with Cairo University on Sunday.

UPDATE: Zeinobia has an interesting posting about the Cairo University protests.

From well good resources and eye witnesses the protest of Cairo University in solidarity with Gaza against the Israeli aggression did not go as expected.
First it was about Gaza ,then it moved on cursing the Arab leaders then it moved to the high escalating prices in Egypt suddenly. And guess what more people have the protest then from outside cursing the government and the terrible prices that they can’t live with. Regular people from outside the university, from outside. This is an important indication that people are just fed up with those crazy prices.

UPDATE: Here’s a report from the Resistance Students blog about the Helwan University protests.

Khaled Hamza’s detention extended; Mubarak’s crackdown on MBs continue

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Khaled Hamza’s detention has been extended by the State Security Prosecutor, as expected:

The New Cairo-based state security prosecution ordered on Monday, March, 3rd, 2008, the detention of Khaled Hamza and 12 other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members prolonged 15 days pending investigations. They have been arrested ahead of the Municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th, 2008.

My thoughts go out to him, his family, and all political detainees in Mubarak’s prisons.

And while Western officials keep praising Mubarak’s “democracy,” the security crackdowns on the Muslim Brothers activists continues in different provinces:

At dawn on Monday security forces arrested 65 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Sharqeya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sohag, Gharbeia, Giza, Qena, and Menoufiya, said a Brotherhood press statement.
The police official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed Monday’s arrests.