Check out Al-Masry Al-Youm’s report on how Cairo has come under siege over the past couple of days, with police deployed in all major streets and square, searching citizens, closing down coffee shops, banning people from sitting in public gardens, putting up banners supportive of the amendments, and forcing civil servants not to boycott the vote…
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The night the bloggers got released
Here’s another short video clip, I took with my mobile phone camera, of the night bloggers Muhammad el-Sharqawi and Kareem el-Sha’er were released from detention, 20 July 2006. The two activists, still in the white prison uniforms, were taken by their friends to a Qahwa in downtown Cairo to celebrate.
Read Malek’s account of that day here.