In an interview with el-Badeel, released Karama Party activist Ahmad Amin Ahmad Eid said that:
Kareem el-Beheiri was tortured in Mahalla’s State Security Police office for more than 18 hours. He told me his torturer was listening to the Quran while torturing him. I saw in Mahalla’s 2nd Police Station children no more than 13 years [...]

No updates on Mohamed Maree, the detained translator of James Buck… He’s still in custody. The latest information we have on Mohamed was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday:
We managed to visit Bourg el-Arab Prison today. It turned out that translator Mohamed Saleh Maree is detained as a ‘criminal’ after he [...]

The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors, who are now acting as a defacto independent labor union, have issued a statement in solidarity with the detained Mahalla activists Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kamal el-Fayoumi and Tarek Amin…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Egypt’s bourse slid Wednesday for the seventh straight session led by construction and banking stocks, which were still reeling from the government move to cut tax breaks on energy-intensive firms and hike energy prices.
“The government’s decision to cut tax breaks [for energy-intensive firms in free zones] has helped drag down the [...]

Visualize the Revolution…

Click on the poster below to check out Tadamon (The Solidarity Committee with the Agrarian Reform Peasantry) for continuous updates on the class struggle in the Egyptian countryside… Read reports the struggle against the regime’s oppression from State Security police assaults, burning down of peasants’ houses, to repeated govt attempts to strip farmers from their [...]

From someone who was present at the last AUC Senate meeting…
auc senate is considering a statement discouraging the invitation of israeli academics
they are weighing risks of losing accreditation vs the obvious moral choice
58-42 in favor of boycott.
Anyone has more details?
UPDATE: Some updates from the AUC Senate meeting…
“Revised AUC Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics [...]

Some of the events organized tomorrow..
Thursday 15 May 2008
60 years of Occupation – 60 years of Resistance
Organizers: Forum of Palestine Solidarity Committees
I. Bar Association: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Photo exhibition, Exhibition of Palestinian heritage
1.00 pm – 3.00 pm
Solidarity rally for Palestine
3.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Documentaries on Palestine
II. Press Syndicate: 6.00 pm [...]

From the Washington Post…
When most people log onto Facebook, the thought of fermenting revolution is pretty far from their minds. But in the Middle East, and most recently in Egypt, Facebook has become an important platform for dissent in countries that routinely clampdown on liberal activists, and where the mosque has traditionally been the only [...]

I was alerted to this, via Amr Ezzat’s delicious: Mubarak’s NDP is considered a “leftist party“… A7a!
In other news, PETA found the solution to our food crisis… They asked Hosni to turn all veggie…

Every now and then do a search for Mahalla (preferably write it in Arabic المحلة ), and you’ll keep on stumbling on videos taken by citizens by their mobile phones. Some of them were uploaded to the net right away (I linked to or posted most of them during the first two days of the [...]

I received the following message from a Socialist activist in Cairo…
تأكدنا أن البحيرى في مستشفى السجن ..فقد أغمى عليه قبل خروج أخر فوج من المعتقلين السياسيين وتم استدعاء الاسعاف له لنقله إلى مستشفى السجن .المحامون لن يزوروا المعتقلين قبل يوم السبت موعد الزيارة ..غير مسموح بغير ذلك ..كريم مصاب بانيميا ..وقد تم تعذيبه فى أمن [...]