From Al-Jazeera…
Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader, has told Israel that it could face another Palestinian uprising unless conditions in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank improve.
Meshaal said that the continuation of an international economic embargo of the Palestinian government and military actions by Israel would present a catalyst for such actions.
He said that current [...]

The textile workers at Mansoura-Spain Company in Daqahliya continue their strike, while their bretheren at the Trust Company in Suez are still staging their a sit-in…
More details from Al-Masry Al-Youm here…

Agents from the Omraniya Police Station arrested yesterday a number of garbage collectors, who are involved in the ongoing strike over unpaid salaries, and transferred them to the 6th of October Prosecutor’s Office, on charges of illegal assembly. The police had invited a number of strikers to the station for negotiations with the company managers. [...]

Egyptian bloggers will hold a “wedding party” in Talaat Harb Sq., Friday 4 May, 6pm, to celebrate the marriage of our future president Gamal Mubarak to the lovely Khadiga, which will be held simultaneously in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The bloggers’ protest party will be held under the slogan: “Heyya ah! Baladna La!” (basically: Go and marry [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The Egyptian Shurah Council has approved in principle amendments to the judicial system law, extending the retirement age for judges from 68 to 70.
The decision on Sunday triggered the Egyptian Judges’ Club to hold an emergency general assembly to protest against the move which is seen as an attempt to keep the ruling party [...]

From Reuters…
An Egyptian court has ruled that the state has no obligation to recognise the right of Christians who convert to Islam to change their minds and revert to Christianity, a human rights group said on Sunday.
The Court of Administrative Justice ruled that recognising such changes of religion would violate a ban on apostasy which [...]

I’ve just received news from blogger Ibrahim el-Hodeiby that 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including two parliamentarians, were detained in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya, roughly an hour ago.
No more details available yet…
UPDATE: Ikhwan Web posted a report with the names of activists and MPs rounded up by Mubarak’s Gestapo…
UPDATE: HR-INFO denounced the arrests. [...]

Cairo-based journalists and photographers will stage a one-hour sit-in tomorrow Monday, 2pm, in front of the Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza seven weeks ago…

Detained Muslim cleric Abu Qatada issued a statement from his prison in Britain, denouncing King Abdallah of Jordan’s position towards the Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to download the (Arabic) statement…

Textile workers strikes and sit-ins continue in Suez and Daqahliya provinces, while 1400 garbage collectors went on strike yesterday in Giza, demanding their unpaid salaries. The garbage collectors assembled in front of their company, carrying banners with cartoons, depicting their company management as “Monster with Fangs,” and slogans like: “Cleaning Companies Launch Terrorist Campaigns (Against [...]

From Reuters…
BAGHDAD- The U.S. military said nine soldiers had been killed in Iraq on Friday and Saturday.
Four were killed by roadside bombs in separate attacks south and southeast of Baghdad on Saturday, the military said in a statement.
Three soldiers and two Marines were killed on Friday in combat in western Anbar Province, it said.
April has [...]

Fifteen human rights watchdogs have announced their solidarity with the Muslim Brothers detainees undergoing prosecution in front of military tribunals, calling on the group’s lawyers to boycott the kangaroo trial proceedings…
Click on the banner below to read the rights activists’ statement…

The statement could be found in Arabic here…

I received the following statement from the Brussels Tribunal Committee…
The latest US ploy to subjugate Baghdad — exemplified in plans to wall-in the district of Al-Adhamiyah — reveals in clarity the Great Lie of the US-led occupation of Iraq. This is nothing more than the implementation of apartheid and sectarianism by a foreign military police [...]