Hossam el-Hamalawy
If the Saudis can inspire Obama, why can’t they inspire Hosni?
The Mubarak’s regime (routinely championed by the Western press, diplomats, and DC pundits as “secular”) has sent out its police troops in Aswan to hunt down those who dared to publicly break the Ramadan fast during daytime.
What is the difference between the police and the Gamaa Islamiya? Or has Habib el-Adly changed his ministry’s name to the Ministry of Motawa3een?
The domino effect:
Inspired by the occupation of the Banha Technological Institute to turn it into a recognized higher education university faculty, the students of the Energy Institute in Aswan have started a sit-in with similar demands.
From AFP:
Police fired tear-gas at about 2,000 rioters in the southern Egyptian town of Aswan on Sunday as they protested the police shooting to death of a bird-seller, a security official said.
Police with the anti-drug squad had mistaken the man, Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq, for a drug dealer.
“They were going to arrest a drug dealer. They went into the wrong apartment,” the official said.
Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported that the man had opened fire on police before being shot, although this was not possible to confirm.
On hearing of Abdel Razeq’s death, the protesters surrounded the hospital where his body was taken and pelted it with stones, smashing windows.
Riot police clashed with the demonstrators, firing tear-gas to disperse them. Four protesters were injured in the clash.
A report in Arabic is available here.