In every single event, demonstration or strike we have to snap at least one photo of the police officers, corporals, and plainclothes thugs present. We have to profile them, put their faces on the web and circulate their photos. A police officer cannot show up for a demonstration, beat the hell of out of peaceful [...]

A number of Gaza solidarity activists, kidnapped by the police this morning, have been released. Grain Mills worker Nagui Rashad blogs about his experience with the police who also detained his seven and eight year old kids…

I spoke with Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who was released around two hours ago. He said [...]

They set him on fire, hit him with iron bars, put a knife on his throat, and dragged him in the street for 200 meters…

Mohamed Awad was detained few minutes ago by the police in front of the Cairo Press Syndicate in Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street…

UPDATE: More activists detained in Cairo and Mansoura, including Ghazl el-Mahalla’s Kamal el-Fayoumi and Mohamed Abdul Quddous of the Liberties’ Committee as they were trying to embark with others on a solidarity trip to [...]

Egyptian photographers have circulated the following statement today among their peers, denouncing police brutality and calling for a protest in front of the Press Syndicate, 12 October, 11am…

Noha alerted me to this video, which was uploaded around a year ago to YouTube, but hadn’t caught our attention…

You can see at least one uniformed police soldier, and hear talk in Egyptian colloquial about ma7ader, etc… Though the channel user titled it as “prisons in Egypt,” I think it’s likely to have been shot [...]

The Interior Ministry has issued a detention decree against two journalists, Ad-Dustour’s Hossam el-Wakil and Ikhwan Online’s Mohamed Dawoud. The two were arrested and beaten up by the police while covering Alexandria’s school closure clashes and ordered to be released by the prosecutor on 25 September.

Muslim Brotherhood parliamentarian Mohssen Radi, expressing his solidarity with Ibrahim Eissa and denouncing the crackdown on his group members…

Abu Se7la is back!

Central Security Forces Conscript standing in front of the Press Syndicate, where activists and journalists demonstrated against the two-month prison sentence handed down to Ibrahim Eissa…

More reinforcements were brought, with CSF conscripts surrounding the Syndicate, while on the other side of the pavement sat the high ranking State Security, CSF and Qasr el-Nil Police Station [...]

Mohamed Saleh, an engineer who’s part of an anti-gentrification fight in Imbaba, speaking at the Tadamon gathering. Police cracked down Sunday night, banning a street theatrical play organized by Saleh and Tadamon activists, deploying Central Security Forces and plainclothes informers…

Photographers are staging anti-police brutality demonstration on 12 October, 11am, in front of the Press Syndicate…

Pigs renewed their crackdown on the Duweiqa residents, assaulting and detaining a number of residents, HMLC reports…