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University professors protest thuggery against students

Posted on By 3arabawy

I received news that leftist academics are holding a protest tomorrow Wednesday, from 11am to 12 noon, at Ain Shams University to protest the state-sponsored thuggery against activist students over the past couple of weeks. The professors will assemble in front of Qasr el-Za’afarana, the university’s administration building.

In recent weeks, Ain Shams University campus has been the scene of bloody clashes between the Free Student Union activists and the security-appointed official Student Union members. The latter brought into campus thugs armed with knives, swords, daggers, molotov cocktails in a terror campaign to disrupt the FSU elections and intimidate the activists.

UPDATE: Here’s a report on the professors’ march.

Essam and Mursi’s detention renewed

Posted on By 3arabawy

In what more or less has become a routine, Mubarak’s regime decided to extend the detention of two Muslim Brotherhood activists I respect. They had been arrested around six months ago for leading demonstrations in support of judicial independence from Mubarak’s executive authorities.

I’m really saddened by this, and even more upset that the MB is mobilizing tens of thousands on university campuses against Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni’s remarks about the veil, and NOT mobilizing for their detainees.

The detention of two senior members of Muslim Brotherhood renewed for more than 2 weeks
By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ Two senior members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood who have been in prison for six months have had their detentions renewed for more than two weeks, police and group Web site said.
Essam el-Erian and Mohammed Morsi, who were jailed for organizing pro-reform protests in May, had their detentions extended for 15 days on Saturday, said police officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The two are leading members of Egypt’s largest Islamic political organization and were among more than 500 members detained by authorities in May when several demonstrations were held in support of two reformist judges facing disciplinary action.
In August, a lower court ordered the release of both men after they spent three months in jail without being charged. However, two days later, a higher court overhauled that verdict, and they remained in prison.
El-Erian, a former lawmaker, also was arrested last year for five months during a wave of anti-government protests but was released after Egypt’s presidential elections in September.
Morsi is a member of the Brotherhood’s political bureau and formerly headed its bloc in parliament.
The Brotherhood, which is formally banned but somewhat tolerated, won nearly a fifth of the parliament in last year’s elections, making it the largest opposition group.
Founded in 1928 and banned since 1954, the Brotherhood is believed to have tens of thousands of followers.

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Remember Essam and Mursi?

Posted on By 3arabawy

Thousands and thousands of students have been mobilized by the Muslim Brothers in the universities over the past week against Minister Farouk Hosni’s remarks about the veil.

I would have loved to see those thousands brought out by the MB in demos in solidarity with Dr. Essam el-Erian and Dr. Muhammad Mursi, and the rest of the MB detainees. Or has the Brotherhood forgotten about them? I would have loved to see those thousands mobilized over labor and student unions violations, or over police brutality.

Ya Ikhwan Ya Muslimeen grow up, and stop wasting your energies on those stupid moral crusades.

UPDATE: Thousands of Islamist students demonstrated today at Al-Azhar University campus in el-Darrassa, against Farouk Hosni.