Here’s a translation, thanks to Sarah, of the Tanta Public Prosecutor’s court referral orders, in the case of the Mahalla detainees…

Mohamed Maree has sent a letter from Bourg el-Arab prison, addressed to Hosni Mubarak, accusing his regime of tyranny and detailing the torture he faced on the hands of the State Security pigs…

From the Daily News Egypt…
“What happened on April 6 and May 4 is nothing but a failed attempt,” said Safwat El-Sherif, head of the Shoura Council, speaking to Rose Al-Youssef newspaper.
“They think that the society is unaware or oblivious to facts,” El-Sherif said. He, however, considered both strikes an opportunity for the National Democratic Party [...]

From AFP…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will travel to Egypt next week for talks with President Hosni Mubarak, the premier’s office said on Thursday as an Egyptian-mediated Gaza truce went into effect.
“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will leave next Tuesday for Egypt where he will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,” the statement said.
“The two agreed to [...]

A Mahalla labor organizer involved in the April 6 Uprising…
None of us expected the events to explode in such manner on 6 April. What we were hoping for at best was to repeat what happened on 17 February on a larger scale. May be instead of 20,000, we’ll get double that. After the round up [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Around 1,000 people, including writers, politicians and activists gathered Sunday at the Press Syndicate to celebrate the launch of Abdel-Halim Qandil’s latest book on President Hosni Mubarak’s rule and the future of Egypt.
The launch of “Al-Ayam Al-Akheera” (The Last Days) faced some obstacles when Qandil’s supporters failed to obtain approvals to [...]

I’ve just come back home after a six-hour meeting with a number of labor organizers who were involved in the 6 April Uprising… I wanted to get more details about the Mahalla intifada and fill in some holes in the stories and reports.. I’m in the process of collecting testimonies and I’m hoping in the [...]

Detained translator Mohamed Marie sent a message from prison…
الرسالة ( بحلم يا بلادى)
مجرد حلم يسعى كل مصرى شريف غيور على مصلحتة بلدة أن يصل الية وهو أن تكون مصر من أرقى واعظم دول العلم ولكن هو مجرد حلم منزوع فية الوسائل لتحقيقة سواء بالقمع أو الفساد الذى اصبح متجزر فى كل حياتنا.
بلا شك ان مصر [...]

General Ahmed Zaki Abdeen, the governor of Kafr el-Sheikh who ordered the violent suppression of the Bread Intifada in Borolss, has an impressive CV, including serving as the Egyptian Military Attache in the US from 1993 to 1995… This is exactly the caliber of people the criminals at the White House love to deal with…

After the prosecutor ordered their release, Mubarak’s Torturer-In-Chief General Habib el-Adly issued detention decrees against nine of the Mahalla prisoners…

Michaela Singer reports…
Standing before a row of black-clad central security police, lawyers from all over Cairo crammed into the small forecourt of the Lawyers’ Syndicate to protest against proposed amendments to the lawyers’ laws.
The protest comes on the eve of what is expected to be the final vote on the amendments, which, according to sources [...]

Sarah Carr reports…
Two court cases involving Al-Dostour editor Ibrahim Eissa were again adjourned on Sunday and Saturday.
On Saturday the Agouza misdemeanors court agreed to the defense’s request that a committee of three media experts be formed to examine whether articles published last year had negatively affected national stability.
The case against editors Adel Hamouda, Ibrahim Eissa, [...]

These are the words of the Canadian manager of Agrium Egypt…

بما إني حطيت صور سوزي الشمطاء بالألوان.. قلت أحط صور بقية العائلة المحترمة بالألوان برضه… خدو صور الحمار والكلب دول