From Haaretz…
With approval of Israeli gov’t, Egypt transfers thousands of rifles to Fatah
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
Egypt transfered a large quantity of arms and ammunition to Palestinian Authority security organizations in the Gaza Strip yesterday. The move was carried out with Israel’s approval and was made in an effort to bolster Fatah affiliated groups, [...]

Two police officers and a corporal will be referred to the Cairo Criminal Court “within few days” to stand trial for charges of abusing citizens in custody, in the latest development of police torture videos scandal.

Prosecutor Bakr Ahmed Bakr, reported Al-Masry Al-Youm today, decided there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Officer Islam Nabih and Corporal [...]

Al-Azhar University administration, led by its pro-Mubarak Dean Ahmad Tayyeb Naggar, is on fast track campaign of stiffling dissent on campus… and now inside classrooms.

After blessing the security crackdown on the Free Student Union in Al-Azhar, and regretting “it didn’t happen earlier, by the start of the university semester,” Naggar is now planning to “monitor [...]

Dozens of family relatives of Muslim Brotherhood detainees waited in the cold from 7:30am to 2pm yesterday, hoping to see their loved ones, but were denied visits by the Cairo Prisons Authorities…

Related Link: Kefaya denounces MB arrests

From IHT…
Jailed for blogging
Dalia Ziada and Jesse Sage
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
CAIRO
In a cramped jail cell in Alexandria, Egypt, sits a soft-spoken 22- year-old student. Kareem Amer was sent to prison for over a month for allegedly “defaming the president of Egypt” and “highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt.” Where did Amer commit [...]

I forgot Latvia was part of the “Coalition of the Willing”…

The Egyptian police brutality videos scandal is snowballing. Rights lawyer Nasser Amin told Al-Masry Al-Youm that he was close to identifying the woman who appeared in one of the police brutality videos, getting whipped by a plainclothes police official. Amin said the woman worked for the Egyptian State TV & Radio, and that the torture [...]

Click on the pic below to watch a slideshow by Nasser Nouri of Egypt’s trains…

The tenth victim of Bird Flu has fallen today in el-Gharbeya province in the western part of the Nile Delta.
Click on the pic below to watch a slideshow, by photographer and friend Nasser Nouri, of Kafr Hanout village, Gharbeya Governorate…

The Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists issued a statement, expressing their solidarity with the Lebanese opposition struggling to overthrow the US-backed government in Beirut…
بيان الإشتراكيين الثوريين: عاشت الثورة اللبنانية
جاوز الاعتصام المجيد لقوى المعارضة في لبنان أسبوعه الثالث للمطالبة بالتغيير ومازال مستمرا. قوى المعارضة التي تضم حزب الله والتيار الوطني الحر وتيار المردة والحزب الشيوعي اللبناني والعديد من [...]

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is due to arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh next week for talks with Mubarak…