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SS raid blogger’s house

Posted on 11/06/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

State Security has raided the house of 26-year-old Muslim Brotherhood blogger Muhammad Mosaad Yaqout, early Sunday, in Balteem:

Egyptian security forces raided on Sunday at dawn, June, 10, 2007, the house of the writer and blogger, Muhammad Mossad Yaqout. The security forces raided the blogger’s house in Baltym, Kafr Al-Sheikh, at 2.00AM and disheveled the house furniture, seized the computer and a number of papers and books and they are still hunting Yaqout.
Yaqout said in a phone call with Ikhwanweb that”The security forces want to arrest me because I support Ghobashi Al-Atawi and Ashraf Al Sayyed, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the Shura Council midterm elections for the constituency of Baltym. They want to detain me also because of my anti-regime writings.
Yaqout, 26 years, confirmed that the State Security Police has no arrest warrant and it wants to detain him illegally. Yaqout, a researcher and web editor, is country chased by the security forces on groundless accusations.

‘Water is a dream for us’

Posted on 09/06/200720/01/2021 By 3arabawy

I bumped yesterday into an acquaintance who lives in El-Nahda neighborhood, one of the low-income areas, east of Cairo, on the road to Belbeis, neighboring industrial zones in Obour City.

The man was bitterly complaining.

“Drinking water, specially during the summer, is not always available. I’ve been living in this place for eight years, and it’s always been bad. But since last year it became totally unbearable.

“We get water for four hours a day usually. Then one day yes, the other day no. And then, it disappears for a week. I open the tap, and there is nothing coming down.

“Last summer the women in the neighborhood assembled, and demonstrated in front of the municipality. And as you know, our women are, excuse me, baladi women… so they were using slurs and foul language against the municipality officials. State Security came. It was a big fuss. But the women stayed on. I can’t remember which day it was. It was the beginning of the summer. But what I remember is that the following day water was running through our pipes again.

“Two weeks ago, we did not have water, then it came back last Saturday, only to be cut again on the following day. Last Tuesday the women assembled again. Some men were present too, but most were women. The municipality promised us they’ll solve the problem. On the following day, they got us fanatees (water transported in metal containers, usually for irrigation)! Man, try to drink that water. It’s even too dirty to wash your clothes in it.

“We are dreaming of water. I want some water! God, it’s water that I’m talking about here. I’m not talking about even getting a bigger space for me, my wife and three children. No one knows where the water is going. We hear rumors. Some say the investors in Obour City made a deal with someone or bribed the municipality engineers to divert our water pipes to serve the Obour factories instead of our neighborhood.”

Finally, dear readers, guess where the Qale’t el-Kabsh slum residents are being moved to? Yep, the govt is resettling the fire victims to El-Nahda to keep dreaming of water.

Abu Omar's wife banned from traveling to Italy

Posted on 08/06/200720/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Abu Omar‘s wife and her son were banned by State Security from traveling to Italy Friday early morning.

Nabila Ghali, 38, and 14-year-old Italian-born Muhammad Abdel Hakim were due to leave Alexandria today on a 4am flight to Milan via Athens, using their Egyptian passports.

“I’ve been trying to get permission from State Security for the past two weeks, without much success,” Abu Omar told me. “I called them up myself, and asked (lawyer) Montasser (el-Zayat) and Islamist leaders to intervene also on my behalf. Finally State Security Major Faisal in Alexandria, who is one of the officers assigned my case, told me it was OK, and that Om Muhammad can leave from the Nozha airport.”

When they arrived at the airport, however, Nabila and Muhammad were banned from traveling by State Security agents, who denied receiving permission form the bureau, either in Cairo or Alexandria.