Blogger Omar el-Sharqawi was released today, after he was detained by Mubarak’s police Tuesday, while covering the Shura Council elections in Sharqiya. He was held without charges in the Talkha Police Station for two days.
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SS raid blogger’s house
State Security has raided the house of 26-year-old Muslim Brotherhood blogger Muhammad Mosaad Yaqout, early Sunday, in Balteem:
Egyptian security forces raided on Sunday at dawn, June, 10, 2007, the house of the writer and blogger, Muhammad Mossad Yaqout. The security forces raided the blogger’s house in Baltym, Kafr Al-Sheikh, at 2.00AM and disheveled the house furniture, seized the computer and a number of papers and books and they are still hunting Yaqout.
Yaqout said in a phone call with Ikhwanweb that”The security forces want to arrest me because I support Ghobashi Al-Atawi and Ashraf Al Sayyed, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the Shura Council midterm elections for the constituency of Baltym. They want to detain me also because of my anti-regime writings.
Yaqout, 26 years, confirmed that the State Security Police has no arrest warrant and it wants to detain him illegally. Yaqout, a researcher and web editor, is country chased by the security forces on groundless accusations.