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Activism, Egypt مصر, Police شرطة

Solidarity needed with MB activist فلنتضامن مع يوسف طلعت

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-10-11 00:34 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Muslim Brotherhood activist Youssef Talaat, turned himself in to State Security Police on 9 October, after they intimidated his family. Talaat, a pharmacist who resides in the Beheira province, is part of the Gaza Solidarity Campaign and one of the media coordinators for the Cairo Anti-War Conference. There is serious concern about his safety in police [...]

Photographers’ anti-police brutality protest postponed قيادات رابطة المصورين تؤجل وقفة الأحد الإحتجاجية ضد عنف الشرطة

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-10-08 23:12 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
There was a stormy meeting yesterday at the Photographers’ Association, after which the senior photographers decided to postpone the anti-police brutality protest planned on Sunday. General Hamdi Abdel Kareem, the Interior Ministry’s PR Department Director contacted the heads of the association and offered to “negotiate and have a dialogue,” according to a source present in the [...]

MB boycott Cairo and Ain Shams SU elections

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-10-08 05:51 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Muslim Brothers are boycotting the student union elections in Cairo and Ain Shams Universities to protest security interference. Just like before, thugs were allowed into Ain Shams U campus to assault the student activists…

Piggipedia on Flickr موسوعة الجلادين على فليكر

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-10-08 05:00 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
In every single event, demonstration or strike we have to snap at least one photo of the police officers, corporals, and plainclothes thugs present. We have to profile them, put their faces on the web and circulate their photos. A police officer cannot show up for a demonstration, beat the hell of out of peaceful [...]

Gaza solidarity activists abused in custody

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-10-06 21:45 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
A number of Gaza solidarity activists, kidnapped by the police this morning, have been released. Grain Mills worker Nagui Rashad blogs about his experience with the police who also detained his seven and eight year old kids… I spoke with Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who was released around two hours ago. He said [...]

Portrait: Imbaba Activist بورتريه: المهندس محمد صالح

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-09-30 06:27 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Mohamed Saleh, an engineer who’s part of an anti-gentrification fight in Imbaba, speaking at the Tadamon gathering. Police cracked down Sunday night, banning a street theatrical play organized by Saleh and Tadamon activists, deploying Central Security Forces and plainclothes informers…

Al-Jazeera English special on political reform in Egypt

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-09-30 03:43 By Hossam el-Hamalawy

Duweiqa residents protest in downtown Cairo إعتصام أهالي الدويقة في عابدين

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-09-15 05:35 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Dozens of Duweiqa residents have started a sit-in, Sunday night, in front of the Cairo Governorate HQ in Abdeen. The residents are complaining from corruption, nepotism and severe delays that mar the process of the distribution of alternative housing units… The residents are also complaining from arbitrary arrests by the police among the neighborhood’s youth, [...]

Mubarak’s government ongoing war with cyber-dissidents

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-09-13 17:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy

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