The Muslim Brothers condemned the torture of its detained activists in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya…

دعوة للتضامن
هل ترفض/ترفضين التمييز على أساس العقيدة؟
هل ترى/ترين أن مصر وطن لجميع المصريين بغض النظر عن معتقداتهم الدينية؟
هل تؤمن/تؤمنين أن جميع الحقوق المكفولة في الدستور هي لكل المواطنين على قدم المساواة؟
إذن نحتاجك معنا!
تعالوا إلى جلسة المحكمة الإدارية العليا المخصصة للنظر بشكل نهائي في حق المصريين البهائيين في الحصول على شهادات ميلاد وبطاقات شخصية وعائلية [...]

The Ismailiya Emergency State Security court has confirmed today the death sentence handed down to three Taba bombings suspects.
UPDATE: I still don’t have the details of the verdicts, but there were no acquitals. The three defendants’ execution sentences, whose papers were referred to the Mufti last September for approval, were confirmed today. All the [...]

Thanks SP…

State Security agents kidnapped and tortured a citizen in Fayoum for his solidarity with the Beit Hanoun massacre victims, Ikhwan Web reports…

From Human Rights Watch…
CIA Abuses: EU Report Condemns European Complicity
Report Stresses Further Need to Investigate Secret Detention and Rendition to Torture
(New York, November 29, 2006) – A new report by the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on illegal CIA activity in Europe is a powerful indictment of European governments’ complicity in CIA abuses, Human Rights Watch [...]

I received the following report from journalist and friend Jano Charbel, who’s been monitoring the labor union elections…

NDP Abducts the Egyptian Trade Union Federation
The leadership of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation Council, the highest ranking trade union body in the country, was determined by default (without elections) on November 27.
The results revealed that the [...]

A good documentary on Egyptian bloggers…

Some quick statistics about the budget of General Habib el-Adly’s Interior Ministry, as reported by today’s Ad-Dostour:

The Interior Ministry’s official budget as allocated by the government for the current financial year 2006/2007 is the budget is LE9.579 billions.
The budget last year 2005/2006 was LE8.305 billions.
The budget two years ago 2004/2005 was LE7.59 billions.
This basically means [...]

I received the following message form journalist and friend Stephen Grey, who spent the last five years researching extraordinary renditionsand tracking down “disappeared” Islamist suspects in the US-run global gulag…
FYI – some exclusive material posted today on www.ghostplane.net, the website of my book Ghost Plane, which is out now.For the first time, I’ve now posted [...]

Liberal writer Gamal el-Banna, brother of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder Hassan el-Banna, had a fantastic op-ed in today’s Al-Masry Al-Youm, where he slammed members of parliament for devoting their energies to discuss Farouk Hosni’s remarks about the veil… Instead, they should focus on torture inside police stations, he insisted, referring to leaked police brutality videos [...]

Kefaya is calling up on civil society and environmental activists to join the movement’s anti-corruption demo, Sunday 3 December, 1pm, in Matarriya Square to protest the unfair garbage collection fees.
دعوة عامة الى كل القوى الوطنية الشريفة واحزاب المعارضة ومؤسسات المجتمع المدنى والجمعيات الاهلية وجمعيات حماية البيئةتدعوكم الحركة المصرية من اجل التغيير كفاية وبمشاركة لجنة الاحياء [...]

I received news that leftist academics are holding a protest tomorrow Wednesday, from 11am to 12 noon, at Ain Shams University to protest the state-sponsored thuggery against activist students over the past couple of weeks. The professors will assemble in front of Qasr el-Za’afarana, the university’s administration building.

In recent weeks, Ain Shams University campus has [...]