Blogger and friend Monem, who was just released from Torah prison in June 2007, reveals the name of officer Atef el-Hosseiny who alledgedly tortured him for 13 days in Nasr City state security HQ back in 2003. Monem says officer el-Hosseiny, and Ahmed Moussa, the Ahram journalist with close ties to security services, are orchestrating together his re-detention. Moussa […]
Blogger Monem Disappears. Click here for English رغم أنه في حوزة وزارة الداخلية المصرية، عبد المنعم اختفى تم ترحيله أمس، 31 مايو، الساعة الثانية ظهرا من سجن طرة محكوم.. وصل محافظة البحيرة الساعة التاسعة مساءا.. استطاع تمرير رسالة لمحاميه الأستاذ اسلام لطفي بأنه موجود في ادارة ترحيلات الأسكندرية الساعة الثالثة صباح اليوم.. اتجه المحامون الى ادارة ترحيلات […]
At a time bloggers are torn between going anonymous, self-censoring, or shutting down their blogs, Samuel Tadros decides to join the Egyptian blogsphere and starts carving on his Liberal Wall. Welcome aboard my friend 🙂 I hope more and more Egyptians will stand against the bloggers’ raid and resist simply by multiplying. If we all raise our […]
فوز مصر بمقعد في مجلس حقوق الانسان بالأمم المتحدة وان دل على شيء يدل على أنه مجلس بطيخ
Silencing Monem ? By Malek عدة أشياء يمكنك أن تفعلها من أجل منعم – هنا تابع أخبار منعم وحملة اطلاق سراحه – هنا
Here is the latest! Bamha victims torn between agony and hope, resort to boycotting Muslim neighbors. Read previous updates here and here. To those interested in the Bamha Case: Some light in the Darkness Hi, Here’s a last update I’ve just recieved: 1. Yesterday, the victims dropped the charges against all the attackers, without changing […]
Wheras Al Masry Al Youm newspaper continues to report on Bamha ordeal and the cosmetic reconciliation, I received the following message today saying Egypt’s State Security asked Christian victims of Bamha to change their official testimonies and on-record complaints to accuse under-age Muslim children of violent attacks instead of real adults whom they had identified earlier. I am glad they refused. Once […]
مراقب مصري قام، مشكورا، بترجمة هذه التدوينة الى اللغة العربية ونشرها هنا بعنوان الى كل من هو مهتم بما حدث في العياط: اخبط راس أمك في الحيط I received the below message today from an Egyptian who personally spoke to some of the victims and the bottom line is: someone wants this to go untold. Are we […]
This is a hilarious post by Egyptian blogger Asad. Although it is a very short real life experience he went through at a main road checkpoint, it clearly depicts the black comedy of our police state – Egypt. Original Arabic post here, and my English translation below: Beard follow-up card Asad, May 16, 2007 Last […]
English below أستطاع منعم أمس تمرير أول تدوينة له من داخل زنزانته بسجن طره محكوم. منعم أعلن بوضوح أنه سيستمر في التدوين والتظاهر والكتابة من أجل مصر ومن أجل الحرية. اضغط على الصورة لقراءة تدوينة منعم كاملة أعد نشرها على مدونتك، أرسلها لأصدقائك.. ساعد في جعل صوت منعم مسموعا حتى وهو وراء القضبان.. علينا […]
I had posted earlier, in Arabic, on the violent attacks and discrimination against Egyptian Christians in the Giza village of Bamha, calling on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group to set example and take action to demonestrate the “true teachings of Islam”. Ikhwan Web, the MB official English website translated my post into English and had it […]
I had posted earlier that bloggers are now under gunfire in Egypt. Several people here in the United States asked me why is this happening to bloggers, and why now? I will try to explain that here Bloggers have put name and face to state security torturers and therefore the battle became personal. We demonstrated in the streets with […]
Today, blogger Monem was ordered 15 days extended detention in Torah Mahkoum prison under conditions he described as “unbearable by any human being”. Monem sends SOS to Rights and Civil Society Organisations Click on above photo for more photos and full message from Monem
The war on bloggers started in Egypt and every morning brings a new episode. While we are campaigning to get our fellow blogger Monem out of jail we get the news he goes on hunger strike for maltreatment and sexual harassement inside prison. But this is old news, namely yesterday’s Today I wake up on this sms […]
لماذا، أصلا، يذهب الكلام الى المحكمة؟ Egyptian pro-democracy activists and bloggers are facing various forms of prosecution everyday Blogger Kareem Amer has been sentenced 4 years in prison for his blog writings Twenty Two (22) websites and blogs face threat of being closed as they are sued for defaming Egypt, next court session is May 5th, […]
Update 6:00pm CLT: Hamalawy reports Gemyhood, Fat’hy Fareed and Hisham Tuleib released after being abused by police. Update 5:30pm CLT: Kefaya reports blogger Mina is released and no information yet on his condition. Abdel Qodoos, Fat’hy Fareed, blogger Gemyhood and others are still kidnapped to unknown location Mubarak black regime is doing it again Today journalist […]
حسنا.. جئنا الى أمريكا لنتعلم الديموقراطية على أصولها ونتدرب على حكم الدول (كل واحد يخلي باله من لغاليغه – قصدي دولته) ن الخارجية الأمريكية بجلالة قدرها استقبلتنا ووضعتنا في قرطاس ضيق لكن بدأنا نخرج من القرطاس بما يثبت أن العمل العربي المشترك ليس مستحيلا.. وأمجاد يا عرب أمجاد الشباب العربي، قام بعمل استبيان على طلبة جامعة سيراكيوز […]
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