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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.

Video: Sharqawi and Sha’er released 20 July 2006

Posted on By 3arabawy

As Kefaya embraces a fresh wave of detentions, I thought of starting to experiment with YouTube, by uploading a short video I had taken with my mobile phone camera, on the night bloggers Sharqawi and Sha’er were released from detention last summer.

The video clip was shot in downtown, after we took the two released detainees (still dressed in their white prison uniforms) from Cairo’s Security Directorate to El-Manzar el-Gameel coffeeshop in Bab el-Louq.

You can read more about this day here. Let’s hope the current Kefaya detainees get released soon, and not go through what our two friends suffered last year.