Blogger and friend Demagh Mak was on a trip to Alexandria this weekend, when he heard one hell of an anti-Mubarak Friday seremon in the one of the city’s mosques.
Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to go and read Mak’s account in Arabic…

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the posting…

A Western journalist who recently lunched with Mohamed Hassanein Heikal asked him about presidential succesion in Egypt, and what chances Jimmi had regarding inheriting the country’s rule from his daddy:
[Heikal] was adamant that Gamal Mubarak would not be the next president: “Everyone hates him!” he exclaimed at one point. He also talked at length about [...]

Click on the cartoon below to read Naomi Klein’s commentary…

I received the following statement…
Call for solidarity with activist and journalist Said Mohamed Farag
The undersigned organizations call upon all activists and human rights organizations and journalists to express their solidarity with activist Said Mohamed Farag, journalist at El-Ahrar newspaper in the torture case where he was victim to El Zawia El Hamra investigations officer.
The [...]

The deputy head of the Cassation Court, Judge Ahmad Mekki, lashed out against the constitutional amendments process, saying the regime’s proposed counterterrorism-related amendments would stiffle dissent, and “make even garbage-throwing a terrorist crime.” The judge added, “there is no hope for any reform under this regime.”

From the Daily Star Egypt…
The Sudanese government has offered an apology to Egypt for the mistreatment of four Egyptian workers at a police station in Khartoum.
Sudan’s Interior Minister Al-Zubair Bashir Taha apologized on behalf of his government to the Egyptian government and promised that an investigation will begin immediately.
Egypt’s Ambassador to Sudan Mohammed Al Shazly [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that Taliban fighters are now in effective control of large parts of a key province in southwest Afghanistan, despite recent claims by Nato that their bases had been destroyed.
James Bays spent two days with the Taliban in Helmand and found that the group is running schools and medical facilities, [...]

I guess you heard or read the bad news by now… secular blogger Kareem was sentenced to four years in prison today: three years for “insulting Islam” and another one for “insulting the president.”
And in a Kafkaesque development on the side of the trial, the recently released torture victim Abu Omar showed up in court [...]

A new video of Egyptian police brutality has surfaced, thanks to the no.1 photojournalist of Egypt’s blogosphere, Wael Abbas…

A police agent could be seen showering detainees, in what is believed to be a police station, with slaps while they are screaming out of pain, and begging the agents to stop. The police agents continue the [...]

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the report…

Kareem’s trial resumes today. Some bloggers I know are travelling from Cairo to Alexandria in solidarity. From the way the trial has been going, and Kareem’s family’s recent media stunt, unfortunately I’m expecting a harsh verdict. I hope I’m proven wrong…
Click on Kareem’s photo below to read Amnesty International’s statement…

A nice video clip, I found via Richard, from the movie “Reds,” about the life of US Communist journalist John Reed…