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State Security detain 33 MB students

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From Ikhwan Web:

State security forces arrested 33 students from the Egyptian summer resort of Hanoville, Agamy, west of Alexandria , on Saturday at dawn, after raiding three flats which the students rented to spend three days holiday. The students belong to the Muslim Brotherhood group, 26 of them are engineering students at Ain Shams university, Cairo , and seven students are from the Alexandria University . One of the students contacted his friends and told them of the security raid and detentions.

Clashes on Aswan Island

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It is happening again, this time in Aswan.

Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile River.

Police detained 11 from the island’s youth, but around 1000 residents showed up in front of the prosecutor demonstrating, forcing the government to release the detainees, stop the building of the tower on the island, in exchange for the residents compensating the company for the construction materials they threw in the river.

More details in Arabic from Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Thousands of Sinai Bedouins to protest Mubarak’s police brutality

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In two days, thousands of the Sinai Bedouins are scheduled to start an open-ended sit-in on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders, protesting police torture, mass detentions and random killings, demanding State Security police troops evacuate from the peninsula and the release of those detained without trial.

Down with Mubarak's Police تسقط شرطة مبارك

[Above: Sinai Bedouins intifada against police brutality. Photo by Amr Abdallah, April 2007.]