Liberal writer Gamal el-Banna, brother of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder Hassan el-Banna, had a good op-ed in today’s Al-Masry Al-Youm, where he slammed members of parliament for devoting their energies to discuss Farouk Hosni’s remarks about the veil. Instead, they should focus on torture inside police stations, he insisted, referring to leaked police brutality videos he watched on a CD.
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University professors protest thuggery against students
I received news that leftist academics are holding a protest tomorrow Wednesday, from 11am to 12 noon, at Ain Shams University to protest the state-sponsored thuggery against activist students over the past couple of weeks. The professors will assemble in front of Qasr el-Za’afarana, the university’s administration building.
In recent weeks, Ain Shams University campus has been the scene of bloody clashes between the Free Student Union activists and the security-appointed official Student Union members. The latter brought into campus thugs armed with knives, swords, daggers, molotov cocktails in a terror campaign to disrupt the FSU elections and intimidate the activists.
UPDATE: Here’s a report on the professors’ march.
Ayoub’s testimony
Egyptian blogger Rami Siyam, a.k.a. Ayoub, posted a testimony about his four-day odyssey spent recently in detention.