Disgusting and alarming. James Buck is accused by the Mubarak’s regime of “defaming Egypt’s reputation through articles and pictures published about 2008 civil unrest.”
Tag: 6 april 2008
US journalist denied entry to Egypt, deported to UAE
Journalist James Buck was denied entry at the Cairo Airport passport control, and was deported to Dubai.
The Cairo Airport has become an ongoing saga over the past couple of years, with repeated harassment against both activists and journalists.
Buck is a talented mutlimedia journalist based in Oakland, California, who bravely covered the Mahalla uprising in 2008, and was briefly held in police custody.
Mahalla 49 Trial: 22 convicted
It’s a sad day!
An Egyptian emergency court convicted 22 people for participating in deadly food riots in April, handing out sentences ranging from three to five years, the presiding judge said.
The remaining 27 defendants in the high profile case held in the northern provincial capital of Tanta 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo, were acquitted, Judge Alsayyed Abdel-Maaboud told The Associated Press.
Defendants screamed at the judge calling him unjust when the verdicts were read out, with some fainting, according to witnesses inside the court.
Thousands of residents of the gritty industrial town of Mahalla al-Kobra rioted in April for two days over the hardships caused by high food prices, destroying posters of the president and clashing with security troops.
The demonstrations were quashed by tear gas and shotgun-wielding security forces who killed three people and arrested dozens of others.