Update: 29 activists are taken to al- Galaa Court Complex to stand in front of prosecutor. This scenario resembles recent MB detentions and provious round up of Kefaya activists during judges support protest

Malek explains Kefaya web was featuring temp problems and now updated and detailed news is on Kefaya main page. 12 activists released, according to Alaa, the rest, 29 activists, are taken to court

Detailed report and photos at Hamalawy’s blog and Alaa promises to post his insights soon 

Update 11:50pm Cairo Time: Alaa’s list is accurate and verified. 3 activists were released. All the rest (31) are now in Al Daher police station and there is no sign on their release. Alaa is outside police station now and says he & lawyers are unable to contact detained activists or get info on their condition

Kefaya had the arrest news on its main page two hours ago and now it vanished! What’s wrong with you guys?

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Khaled Abdel Hamid was with me on the phone last night.. He said “I will take care of your cat, don’t worry”.. I laughed and said “that is if you stay out of jail”.. we both giggled

“I will never tell you not to go” I said “If I was there, I would go myself. Even when Sharqawi was fresh out of prison last May I never advised him to stay home”. n

His sms came 15 minutes before the protest “el 2mn kter 2wy wm2fl eldnya. ana ray7 midan elt7rir”. Then, no further contact. Second sms came from Alaa short and to the point “Arrests, check my blog“. I called Hamalawy who confirmed the news and said security presence reminds him of 20th March, 2003

Minutes before, Samuel, my fellow Egyptian here in DC was saying “they [Mubarak administration] are not stupid. They want the farce constitutional amendment to pass quietly and therefore will circle the protesters so no one in the street would see or hear them, then they would let them go after couple of hours. They don’t even need to beat them”. I told him they are completely unpredictable. There could be many factors to a street action like if the Muslim Brothers are joining or not, the numbers of protesters, street support, … . You may sum, add or combine factors and try to make any sense out of anything.. but the Mubarak administration remains unpredictable and undermining its stupidity doesn’t really help

Reading the list at Alaa’s blog I stopped breathing. I have been also reading lists for days and days at Abdel Monem blog – ana ikhwan and everyday carries more numbers and faces behind bars

The day will come when I will read the name list of government officials and state security generals held accountable for their crimes

Mr. Mubarak. Your suggested constitution is farce and you already know it. It wouldn’t hurt your aging delicate ears to hear it once more in Tahrir Square – would it? You sell yourself internationally as a secular regime while you impose on us article II of the constitution and use it to discriminate against Copts, Baha’is, other Egyptian citizens and Abdel Kereem

You sell yourself locally as a religious government while you crush the Muslim Brotherhood. You make sense no more! n

Your day will come

PS: apologies, no arabic keyboard under my hands for the moment

Photos by Hossam el-Hamalawy