I received this letter from a sister of an Islamist detainee, who’s been incarcerated since 1993… اعتقل أخي عبد المنعم جمال الدين عبد المنعم منيب في 21/2/1993 و كان يعمل صحفي بالقطعة بجريدة الشعب و قدم لمحاكمه عسكرية و برئته في 30/10/1993 وكان وقتها محبوس بسجن شديد الحراسة بطره.و منعت عنه الزيارة بل عن السجن …
I’m receiving news that Police is cracking down on the Cinema Metro demo. Plainclothes security agents are dispersing protesters and people away. Five people, I heard, have been arrested including activist Nadia Mabrouk, Waleed Salah, a student from the AUC named Dina, a foreign journalist and an unnamed protester. The police also assaulted Reuters photographer …
Dozens of wives of Islamist detainees demonstrated today in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Downtown Cairo, to protest their husbands continuous detention by the Interior Ministry. Some of them have been in jails without trial since the 1980s. Meanwhile, a handful of Muslim Brothers journalists demonstrated in front of the Press Syndicate, protesting the closure …
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I read about this before I went to sleep last night. To be honest, I never heard of the woman before the terrible tragedy happened. But the more I read about her, the more grief I felt. I spoke with a veteran American journalist friend of mine in Cairo, who covered the war in Chechnya …