Motaz Adel and Ahmad el-Gizawi were picked up by the police today while heading to cover the MB military tribunal.
Nawara Negm has the details.
Hossam el-Hamalawy
Motaz Adel and Ahmad el-Gizawi were picked up by the police today while heading to cover the MB military tribunal.
Nawara Negm has the details.
I received news that Qale’t el-Kabsh slum residents are demonstrating now in front of the Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo.
UPDATE: I phoned an activist who’s present now at the protest. She says more than 200 persons are demonstrating, after they were told unofficially by the Prosecutor that he will not pursue the case, filed by the residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights, to investigate the process by which the local municipality and the Cairo Governorate authorities manipulated the compensations for the burnt down houses and those demolished. “There are dozens who are still sleeping in the street, waiting for flats,” the activist said. I could hear some of the chants over the phone: “Suzan (Mubarak)! Say the truth! Do we have flats or not?!”
“The Government (officials) are thieves and looters!”
There were also a chant about Gamal Mubarak, but neither I nor the activist on the phone could hear it properly.
For previous postings and videos of the Qale’t el-Kabsh slum protests, check this dossier.
Mubarak’s State Security police banned Muslim Brotherhood senior member Dr. Essam el-Erian from traveling to Qatar, where he was due to attend a forum held by Sheikh Youssef el-Qaradawi.
SS told Essam they were implementing an interior minister’s decree, issued 15 May 2007, banning the popular MB leader from leaving the country.