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30 arrested in Rafah on suspicion of smuggling fuel to Gaza

Posted on 11/10/200802/04/2015 By 3arabawy

Around 30 members of the same family were arrested from a neighborhood in the border town of Rafah on suspicion of smuggling solaar gas into Gaza.
According to sources in the area, 30 members of the Barahma family — part of the Barghoum tribe — were taken after security forces completely surrounded the neighborhood of Canada in Rafah all day Wednesday.
Additionally, the sources indicated that three women were also taken as some sort of “collateral” until their husbands turn themselves in. They also said that one member of that particular family had assaulted a border guard and the security mission was a retaliatory gesture.

Solidarity needed with MB activist

Posted on 11/10/200802/04/2015 By 3arabawy

Muslim Brotherhood activist Youssef Talaat, turned himself in to State Security Police on 9 October, after they intimidated his family.

Talaat, a pharmacist who resides in the Beheira province, is part of the Gaza Solidarity Campaign and one of the media coordinators for the Cairo Anti-War Conference.

There is serious concern about his safety in police custody. For more details about his case, check out this posting by Tadamon…

Gaza solidarity activists abused in custody

Posted on 06/10/200809/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A number of Gaza solidarity activists, kidnapped by the police this morning, have been released.

Grain Mills worker Nagy Rashad blogs about his experience with the police who also detained his seven and eight year old kids.

I spoke with Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who was released around two hours ago. He said he was kidnapped by the police six blocks away from the Press Syndicate around 10am. He was approached by a plainclothes agent who requested his National ID Card, while four other thugs surrounded him. He was taken to a truck with three others, which drove them to Tora’s Central Security Forces Camp, south of Cairo. Kamal said he was blindfolded and interrogated by a State Security officer, who slapped him on the face a number of times, punched him in the stomach, while shouting the worst verbal insults. Kamal met at least six other detainees inside who said they faced similar treatment. Around two hours ago, the detainees were taken, split into two groups and thrown out in a remote desert area near Maadi.