Hundreds marked Jerusalem Day, by demonstrating today at Al-Azhar Mosque following Friday prayers, in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance and the Hamas-led government.
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Journalists, detainees’ wives demonstrate in Cairo
Dozens of wives of Islamist detainees demonstrated today in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Downtown Cairo, to protest their husbands continuous detention by the Interior Ministry. Some of them have been in jails without trial since the 1980s.
Meanwhile, a handful of Muslim Brothers journalists demonstrated in front of the Press Syndicate, protesting the closure of the group-affiliated paper, Afaq Arabiya, seven months ago by the government. The journalists posed as vegetable sellers, to symbolize their financial difficulties. “We are left with nothing but selling vegetables ya hokouma,” they were shouting.
Anti-Danish demo at Al-Azhar
Hundreds demonstrated today, at Al-Azhar Mosque, against the new Danish cartoons that insult Prophet Mohammed.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reported yesterday that the Ministry of Religious Endowments, Mubarak’s arm in the religious establishment, has drafted a proposal for a new law banning demos and “gatherings” in mosques. The proposed penalties for “breaking the law” would be either three months in jail, a minimum LE500 fine, or both.