Hossam el-Hamalawy
Citizen Muhammad Ahmad el-Hennawi, of Port Said, has been on a hunger strike since 25 February protesting his torture and repeated detention on the hands of Mubarak’s security services.
Al-Masry Al-Youm also has an interesting report on how detention orders in Egypt are like “blank cheques,” ready to be used by low ranking officers anytime without the need for Interior Minister General Habib el-Adly’s signature.
School teachers in Fayoum accuse Mubarak’s Ministry of Education to be behind the spread of illiteracy in the province.
Around 200 peasants demonstrated yesterday in the village of Dekernes in the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, protesting their eviction from their lands in favor of the descendants of the Badrawi feudalist family.
I received a message in the morning saying Labor Party activists Magdi Hussein, Akram el-Irani, and a third whose first name is Muhammad were detained by the police on their way to Dekernes to express solidarity with the evicted peasants.