Thank you Issandr for spelling it out…

I’ve received news that Helwan’s Telephones Equipment Company workers have gone on strike today, demanding their unpaid 12-month bonus.
Three days ago, only 316 out of 1600 workers went on strike for one day. But today, production in the factory came to complete halt as all the workers joined the strike.
I’ll update the posting if I [...]

Blogger and friend Mohamed el-Sharqawi–who was kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused by an officer from State Security’s Counter-Communism Bureau in Qasr el-Nil Police Station on 25 May 2006–is still suffering from his torture’s medical complications that may require a surgery soon in his left knee.
Click on Sharqawi’s picture below, taken by photographer Amr Abdallah, to [...]

Reminder: The trial of Police Captain Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi, the Boulaq el-Dakrour Police Station agents who tortured and sodomized driver Emad Kabeer, is scheduled this Saturday, 3 March.

From the Black Mask Productions…

I received the following statement from CPJ…
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) arrest of a local television director and harassment of several journalists during a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus.
At around 3:00 a.m. on February 26, Israeli soldiers detained Nabegh Break, owner and [...]

Latuff’s “Juba, The Baghdad Sniper” Comics are now available in Arabic.
Click on images to enlarge…

Click on the photo below to read the (Arabic) interview…

A report by Paul Schemm…
Egypt’s new opposition leader sees end of regime
CAIRO, 27 fév 2007 (AFP) - Even as the Egyptian government cracks down on any kind of opposition, an ageing academic who has taken the helm of the faltering pro-democracy Kefaya movement insists the regime is on its last legs.
As a result, Abdel Wahab [...]

From AFP…
Egypt on Friday lashed out at critics of the four-year jail sentence it handed a blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman Amer for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak.
“No one has the right to interfere with Egyptian legal matters or comment on Egypt’s decisions,” Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.
Egypt rejects the [...]

Click on the photo below, to read some interesting thoughts from an Ikhwan Web writer on the case of Police refusenik Mohamed Khalaf.

From Al-Jazeera…
Israeli forces have withdrawn from Nablus after conducting a three-day military operation there, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the West Bank city reports.
Agencies also quoted Palestinians as saying that the Israeli army had pulled its troops and armoured vehicles out, with no soldiers visible in Nablus at dawn on Tuesday.
However, the Israeli army did not [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
An Egyptian appeal court has overturned a one-year jail term served against a newspaper editor convicted of defaming Hosni Mubarak, the country’s president, substituting it for a fine of $3,950.
Ibrahim Eissa, editor of al-Dustour weekly, had accused Mubarak of selling state enterprises too cheaply and wasting foreign aid in editorial columns.
Click on the cartoon [...]