Tag: detainees

Kefaya detainees in police custody

Posted on By 3arabawy

Blogger Muhammad Adel, one of the Kefaya activists detained last Thursday, managed to take two video clips of the detainees in custody.

The first one is of the detainees, singing political songs and exchanging jokes, inside the police truck in Salah Salem Street (Airport Road).

[Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6Jd_4Zy2k]

In the second video, you can hear the detainees singing one of Sheikh Imam’s songs, while locked up in the detention cell at the Prosecutor’s building.

[Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMj7ImXKc04]

Police ban demo

Posted on By 3arabawy

Today’s protest against Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments was banned by the police.

Kefaya blogger Malek Mustafa was kidnapped around noon. He’s currently detained in a blue car, with license plates no. 865171, full of police informers, parked in front of the American University in Cairo.

UPDATE: It’s 4:10pm now. Malek has just been released. No word on Abdel Qodouss.

UPDATE: Muhammad Abdel Qudouss was released, according to leftist journalist and activist Khaled el-Balshi. Abdel Qudouss was also locked up in a police car, said Khaled. None of the detainees today were taken to police stations. Basically the police took everyone on a cruise.

Mubarak’s Military Courts: 94 sentenced to death, 701 jailed in 8 years

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From Ikhwan Web:

94 persons were sentenced to death and 701 others were given prison sentences out of 1136 defendants in 36 cases that appeared before the military justice between 1992 and 2000, said a human rights study.
The series of transferring civilians to military tribunals started in 1992 when president Mubarak, as a military governor, referred 48 defendants in the two cases of “Returnees from Afghanistan” and “Jihad Organization” to the Supreme Military Tribunal in Alexandria in late October 1992.