Kefaya activists in Beheira (south of Alexandria) have called for a demonstration against Mubarak’s constitutional amendments, on Sunday 12 noon, at Midan el-Sa’aa in Damanhour city…

Here’s another short video clip, I took with my mobile phone camera, of the night bloggers Mohamed el-Sharqawi and Kareem el-Sha’er were released from detention, 20 July 2006. The two activists, still in the white prison uniforms, were taken by their friends to a Qahwa in downtown Cairo to celebrate.

Read Malek’s account of that day [...]

A report from Al-Jazeera International on MB detainees’ families blogging to make their voices heard…

Blogger Mohamed Adel, one of the Kefaya activists detained last Thursday, managed to take two video clips of the detainees in custody.
The first one is of the detainees, singing political songs and exchanging jokes, inside the police truck in Salah Salem St. (Airport Rd.).

In the second video, you can hear the detainees singing one of [...]

Here’s a video clip, shot by blogger Mohamed Adel, of a group of Kefaya demonstrators last Thursday marching through downtown, chanting against the regime, shortly before their arrest.

Police cracked down on the demo that day, dispersing crowds of demonstrators into small groups that reassembled in front of Tagammu Party HQ, Mugamma’ building in Omar Makram, [...]

From the BBC…
An Iraqi police chief cannot trust one third of his officers because they are loyal to illegal militias, he has told the BBC.
General Abdul Hussein Al Saffe, head of policing in Dhi Qhar province, told the BBC’s Paul Wood he could not sack them as they had political protection.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below [...]

Alf Salama…
Gamal Mubarak, the undersecretary-general and head of policies committee in the rulin National Democratic Party (NDP), fainted for five minutes before his meeting on Tuesday with the NDP General Secretariat members to discuss the new developments regarding the constitutional amendments.
A state of panic hit NDP members who saw this inside the Secretariat Hall, while [...]

From Ikhwan Web…
Five thousand workers of the Alexandria-based United Arab and Polvara Spinning and Weaving Co. staged a labor strike, starting from last Saturday, protesting at not increasing shares, discriminating between workers and executives, not paying profits, canceling incentives for working on Fridays and sick leaves and not excluding advisors and those on pension.
The strike [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Police have arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and New York City on the fourth anniversary of the US invasion.
Officers outnumbered the fewer than 100 protesters outside the stock exchange building in New York’s financial district on Monday.
“Stop the money, stop the war,” they chanted as police hauled them away.
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Today’s protest against Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments was banned by the police.
Kefaya blogger Malek Mustafa was kidnapped around noon. He’s currently detained in a blue car, with license plates no. 865171, full of police informers, parked in front of the American University in Cairo.

There are also suspicions that another leftist blogger, Mohamed Gamal, and journalist [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
In Europe, about 5,000 people demonstrated in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Sunday demanding the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
They also chanted slogans against US foreign policy towards Lebanon and Iran.
In the US, up to 30,000 people marched through New York on Sunday, [...]

Congrats… Mubarak’s NDP-dominated parliament has just endorsed the amendments. The referendum will be held on March 26, instead of April.
Mabrouk ya Gamal…

UPDATE: Here’s an AP report by Nadia Abou El-Magd…
Egyptian parliament approves controversial amendments to constitution
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ Egypt’s parliament on Monday approved a controversial set of amendments to the constitution that the opposition [...]

From Ikhwan Web…
94 persons were sentenced to death and 701 others were given prison sentences out of 1136 defendants in 36 cases that appeared before the military justice between 1992 and 2000, said a human rights study.
The series of transferring civilians to military tribunals started in 1992 when president Mubarak, as a military governor, referred [...]