Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of a newspaper editor and a blogger, whose arrests have brought the number of journalists detained arbitrarily in Egypt to 31.
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Tweets from Tahrir
Salma Said
For three days on the row, the interior ministry’s Central Security Forces have been waging a war similar to what the Israelis are doing in Palestine, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and bird shots at unarmed protesters. The latest victim is Salma Said, a leftist blogger who’s been active for years against the Mubarak’s dictatorship.
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Platon Portraits: Egypt’s Transformers
Portrait of Sandmonkey, Mona, Gigi and I, taken by Platon for Human Rights Watch.
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Amr Gharbeia‘s testimony re his kidnapping on 23 July…
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Egyptian blogger Amr Gharbeia has been kidnapped by the thugs during the crackdown on our anti-SCAF march in Abbassiya. He’s currently in the military police custody. UPDATE: We don’t know where Amr is. According to lawyers and rights activists, both the military police and the interior ministry claim they do not have him in custody.
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Social Media and the #Jan25 Revolution
Piggipedia: Sherif el-Qamati شريف القماطي
Sherif el-Qamati is a State Security Police officer who worked at the Bureau of Counter-Communism and Human Rights Organizations, which was in charge of monitoring, arresting and torturing leftists and rights activists. I first spotted Qamati as early as 2003, when he began showing up for our pro-Palestine and anti-Iraq war protests in downtown Cairo,
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