I attended on Wednesday the circus trial of the alleged Egyptian Canadian spy Mohamed el-Attar. Click on the photo below to watch a slide show of some pix I took…

The court building was under tight siege by Mubarak’s Central Security Forces, as the trial of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders was in process, on the ground [...]

It was my first time to go to the New Cairo Court House Compound, in el-Tagammu el-Khames, on the outskirts of my neighborhood Nasr City, east of Cairo, to cover the trial of Mohamed el-Attar, the alleged Egyptian Canadian spy, coincidentally at the same time when Khairat el-Shatter and other MB leaders were appealing against [...]

From Xinhua…
Canadian judge rules against sending detainee back to Egypt
A Canadian federal court judge ruled on Monday not to deport a man accused of being a national security threat to his native Egypt for he could be tortured there.
Judge Andrew MacKay made the ruling despite acknowledging that Mahmoud Jaballah made a series of questionable phone [...]