Rights lawyer Gamal Eid was present when the police thugs arrived to evict the activists out of the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services office in Helwan, before they threw away the office furniture, sealing its door off with red wax. Click on the pic below to watch a slide show…

UPDATE: Here’s a [...]

More could be found here…

I received the following statement from Ikhwan Web…
MAS Freedom Foundation Underscores Egyptian Human Rights Campaign with Visits and Rally
WASHINGTON, DC - Apr. 23, 2007 (MASNET) On March 2, 2007 the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, through its civil and human rights department, responded to the human rights violations and severe assault on nonviolent opposition [...]

Al-Jazeera’s Riz Khan looks at private military companies working in Iraq…

After detaining blogger Moneim for his relentless anti-torture campaigning… And after fabricating charges against Al-Jazeera’s Howeida Taha for producing a documentary about torture inside Egyptian police stations… Mubarak’s police crusade to silence torture victims continues…
A Giza police force raided the house of a citizen Monday, around 8pm, and kidnapped him for an hour and half, [...]

State Security police is in full control of the Bourg el-Arab prison, where 17 members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated. The detainees are ill-treated. Family visit have been banned. Click on the banner below to read more details in Arabic…

1300 textile weaving workers from Trust Company in Suez have escalated the sit-in, they started on Saturday, into total work stoppage and hunger strikes, protesting the management’s abusive policies.
More details in Arabic at Al-Masry Al-Youm report here…

As I’m writing now, Security forces are inside the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) office in Helwan. The Center has come under siege of at least four Central Security Forces trucks, loaded with conscripts, battalions of plainclothes, and swarms of State Security police agents.
There’s a group of activists inside the Center, who [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The US congress is investigating whether the Pentagon deliberately lied to turn soldiers Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman into heroes.
Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, accused the government of inventing sensational details and stories about Tillman’s death in Afghanistan, and Lynch’s rescue in Iraq.
Tillman was killed in April 2004 [...]

This is why the Americans give Mubarak US$1.7 billion a year…
Egyptian security officials in Gaza plan to meet on Wednesday with Hamas’s armed wing and other militant groups to try to head off any further escalation, after a Hamas claimed responsibility for a barrage of rocket fire at Israel.
Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
A Democrat-led congressional panel has approved a war-funding bill that sets a tentative March 31, 2008 deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq despite a promised veto by the president.
The fight in Washington escalated as nine US soldiers were killed and 20 wounded on Monday in a suicide car bombing northeast of Baghdad, the [...]

Bad, but expected, news…
Prosecutor extended the detention of blogojournalist Moneim by another 15 days, pending investigation into government bullshit his “membership in an illegal organization, and aiding students to carry out terrorist activities.”
The prosecutor also ordered the case to be transferred to the Tagammu el-Khames Prosecutor’s Office, on the outskirts of Nasr City.
Leftist blogger Mohamed [...]