The latest racist filth from NYT’s retarded Middle East “expert”…

A person called me from downtown saying a group of activists are right now demonstrating in front of Al-Ghad Party HQ in Talaat Harb Street. I could hear on the phone the demonstrators in the background chanting “Down with Mubarak,” and calling for the release of Dr. Ayman Nour. The building is surrounded by security [...]

The Egyptian Association Against Torture, the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center (three secular left-leaning rights watchdogs) have issued a statement denouncing the security crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood student activists…

[Above: President of Al-Azhar University Ahmad al-Tayyeb al-Naggar, Cartoon by Fathi Abul Ezz]

I received the following statement from the Workers’ Coordination Committee…
مرفق بيان اللجنة التنسيقية بشأن اضرابى حلوان
20/12/2006
صوت عمال حلوان يعلو من جديد
إضراب عمال اسمنت حلوان ،واسمنت طره
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من جديد يعلو صوت عمال حلوان للمطالبة بحقوقهم في مواجهة الشركات الأجنبية ،حيث دخل عمال أسمنت حلوان- 1300 عامل- في اعتصام منذ أمس احتجاجا على إهدار الشركة الايطالية-المالك الجديد”ايطالسمنت”- لوعودها [...]

Chris Harman explains why socialists must support the Iraqi resistance to imperialist occupation…

Activists are holding a candle light vigil, Friday 29 December, 6pm, in front of the UNHCR office in Mohandessin, to mark the first anniversary of the massacre of Sudanese refugees on the hands of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces.

Blogger Nora Younis witnessed the atrocity last year, and wrote her testimony here…

HRinfo is ringing alarm bells, expressing concerns over Kareem’s solitary confinement, and denial of family visits…

I received the following statement from leftist lawyer Gamal Eid, director of HRinfo…
Cairo - 20 December 2006
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) decided to change the place of its prospected workshop to Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate headquarter rather than Shepherd Hotel. The workshop is attributed to discuss HRinfo’s recently published report on the conflict [...]

Baheyya writes on the significance parliament speaker, labor union and Free Student Union elections…

I received the following SMS: “Journalist Abdel Nasser el-Zoheiry was detained, taken from his home at 3am.”
No more details available.
UPDATE: The journalist was taken to Shoubra Police Station, where he was kept for one hour, then released. It was a case of “mistaken identity,” according to the police.

Hmhmhm… Some bloggers are protesting the torture and sexual abuse Emad Mohamed Ali Kabeer received on the hands of Boulaq al-Dakrour Police Station agents, by posting the following banner on their blogs.

The top line reads: “All of Egypt is Emad Mohamed Ali Kabeer.”
The bottom line reads: “The regime’s stick is up everyone’s ass.”

As harsh as I was in criticizing Human Rights Watch over their Palestinian “human shields” press release… now I applaud their retraction of the statement and the great work on Qana…

State Security detained him for over six months despite court orders for release. They tried unsuccessfully to put him under house arrest. Now, they are banning him from travelling outside the country.
Egypt bars senior Brotherhood member from Qatar trip
by Aziz El-Kaissouni
CAIRO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces barred a top member of the banned [...]

They should turn the Arab League HQ in the busy Tahrir Square into a parking lot to help ease the traffic crisis in downtown Cairo…
Arab League will delay calling ministerial meeting
by Aziz El-Kaissouni
CAIRO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Tuesday he would put off calling for an emergency meeting of [...]

I stumbled on this activist blog by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff…