Four Muslim Brothers student activists were detained in the Nile Delta town of Tanta.
In Cairo, Al-Azhar University dismissed seven MB students, and barred six others from entering the second term exams.
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Mubarak’s police brutalize March 2003 anti-war protesters
Mathew uploaded to his flickr account some pictures he took of the violence that engulfed downtown Cairo on 21 March 2003, following the outbreak of the US-led war on Iraq. More than 40,000 took control of downtown, but the scene went down into chaos with the severe police brutality against demonstrators.
Several friends of mine were detained on that day, and tortured. I was arrested in the afternoon of the following day, 22 March, and taken to Gamaliya Police Station with dozens of detainees picked up randomly in Tahrir Square, then transferred to State Security HQ in Lazoughly, before I was released by 3am. One week later, the director of the Government Press Center Attiya Shakran revoked my official Press Card saying he was acting on “orders from State Security.” Since then, I applied three times for credentials only to be turned down.
These were the biggest demos the capital has witnessed since the January 1977 Bread Intifada.
Sharqawi’s flat raided; laptop stolen
Blogger Muhammad el-Sharqawi‘s flat in downtown Cairo was broken into “professionally;” his laptop which had a previously unpublished leaked police brutality video “disappeared,” according to a report by blogger Demagh Mak that was confirmed to me by Sharqawi over the phone.