The United Bank (Al-Masraf Al-Muttahid) has notified the Mansoura-España Garments Company workers it will liquidate the firm, diregarding the agreement reached between the government and the parliament, as it decided the fate of the company already, without showing any signs it is interested in holding the agreed meeting with representatives from the Factory Union Committee, [...]

A Christian news website is reporting that Bahaa Eddin el-Akkad, the detained convert was finally released last month…
In a surprise gesture, Egyptian authorities have released a Christian convert from Islam who had been jailed without charges under Egypt’s controversial emergency laws for the past two years. Officials at the Wadi el-Natroun Prison released Bahaa [...]

Nora provides disturbing updates here…

From Reuters…
Hundreds of Egyptian Muslims and Christians hurled bricks and firebombs at each other in clashes on Friday south of Cairo in a dispute over building a church that erupted after Muslim prayers, security sources said.
Ten Christians were injured in the clashes that broke out in the village of Behma, about 60 km (40 [...]

From the BBC…
A second editor of a student publication in Iran has been detained following days of unrest in one of Tehran’s most prestigious universities.
Scuffles broke out last week between reformist and right-wing students at Amirkabir University, after several works were accused of insulting Islam.
However, the editors say the offending articles were forged.
Right-wing students have [...]

Muslim Brotherhood blogojournalist Abdel Moneim Mahmoud calls for the release of secular blogger Kareem Amer and all political detainees…
I take my hat off to Abdel Moneim…

Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read Al-Masry Al-Youm report…

Click on the photo below to read a good report in the Daily Star Egypt, by Alexandra Sandels, on blogger Kareem’s imprisonment…

And here’s an AP report by Nadia Abou El-Magd…
Court sentences Egyptian blogger to four years in prison for insulting Islam, Mubarak
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) _ An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four [...]

فطست من الضحك

Blogger and friend Demagh Mak was on a trip to Alexandria this weekend, when he heard one hell of an anti-Mubarak Friday seremon in the one of the city’s mosques.
Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to go and read Mak’s account in Arabic…