Egyptian blogger Kareem, who’s been in police custody for two months pending investigation, will show up in Moharram Beik Court Thursday 18 January, to face charges that include: posting articles on the internet deemed “insulting” to the president and the Islamic faith. For those religious conservatives cheering Kareem’s arrest, and his expulsion from Al-Azhar University …
Two new police related videos surfaced online. One video, recorded by a mobile phone, is of several hundred Alexandrians last spring trying to break into El-Montazah police station to take revenge for the March 2006 killing of 19-year-old Youssef Khamis Ibrahim by a police agent in cold blood. As the funeral was passing in front …
Egyptian secular blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil was detained by the authorities in Alexandria today at 3:30pm, after he was called in for questioning over articles he had written. The prosecutor ordered him to remain in police custody for four days pending investigation, according to the SandMonkey. A Free Kareem campaign has been launched.
A new video of police agent abusing a citizen is circulating the Egyptian cyberspace. “Torture In Egypt”, an excellent website run by a group of dedicated anti-torture activists, has posted a short video, taken by a cellular digital camera, of what they said was an Egyptian youth being slapped on the neck by a police …