Blogger Omar el-Sharqawi was detained today by Mubarak’s police, at 9:30am while covering the Shura Council elections in Sharqiya. He’s currently in Talkha Police Station.
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.
