A painting on the entrance to a children nursery in my block.
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Om Mounir’s Testimony
The Brigadier
A video that was shot in June by one of the striking Petrojet workers, where Brigadier General Mamdouh Abbas of the military police is threatening the protesters with seven years in prison. Five workers were detained that day and taken to prison, before a military tribunal handed down a suspended one-year prison sentence.
Read on »Security Paranoia
Just a casual observation… I went today to pay my Mobinil monthly bill at their Abbas el-Akkad Street branch. The shop has been fortified with iron bars that cover the glass windows. Inside the shop, now there is an armed private security guard holding a baton, watching the customers nervously and making everyone around him
Read on »Piggipedia: SS General Amr L’Assar اللواء عمرو الأعصر
From SS Officers Amr L’Assar is a State Security Police general whose photos I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs. I don’t have information about his previous work with SS, but he’s now part of the newly founded National Security Sector’s Public Relations Department.
Read on »Army cracks down on strikers
The military police detained yesterday five strikers from Petrojet company during a protest in front of the Oil Ministry.
Read on »SS General Mortada Ibrahim لواء أمن دولة مرتضى إبراهيم
From SS Officers One of the sets of photos I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs, was that of General Mortada Ibrahim. The general hails from a powerful Upper Egyptian family, accused by some of using the general’s influence to grab more land. From SS Officers General Ibrahim was promoted in 2004 to become
Read on »28 Jan Friday of Anger جمعة الغضب
This was the march I took part in, on the Friday of Anger:
Read on »General Tarek Mahmoud el-Rakaybi اللواء طارق محمود الركايبي
From SS Officers State Security Police General Tarek Mahmoud el-Rakaybi, whose photos I found on the SS DVDs, was one of the senior officials in the agency, before he was promoted in 2009 by General Habib el-Adly, the interior minister, to head the General Police Directorate of Private Guards, which provides bodyguards to govt officials
Read on »Dissolving SS through direct action
By Jody McIntyre: “The dissolving of the state security is a victory,” el-Hamalawy continues, “but it does not mean there will be no more torture in Egypt. There were many different elements of the security forces implicated in crimes under the previous regime, right down to the traffic police. The dissolving of the state security
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