Sarah Carr reports…
Two Helwan University students have filed a legal complaint against police officers they say physically assaulted them on the university campus.
Nagy Kamel and Mostafa Shawqy, both engineering students and members of the Resistance Students, a socialist activist group, presented the complaint on Monday.
On the same day, some 20 Helwan University students held a [...]

From AFP…
A woman was killed and another injured in the southern city of Qena after they stood in the way of a bulldozer that was demolishing a home built without a permit, a security official said on Monday.
The two women, whose family had moved onto the land and built a home there, were protesting against [...]

Police is cracking down on protestors in Tala’at Harb Square, nabbing at least three activists, among those who demonstrating in solidarity with the Ghad Party. The protest has been moved to the Press Syndicate.. Follow Sarah Carr’s Jaikus for continuous updates..

The Mahalla 49 trial has been adjourned until Tuesday, 11 November, when video footage of 6 April Uprising and photos taken by James Buck will be shown to the court.
UPDATE: Photos of today’s session, taken by Sarah Carr….

Plainclothes thugs, with the help of the police, assaulted yesterday some members of the Resistance Students on Helwan University campus…

Two sisters were illegally held, beaten up and molested in Giza’s Omraniya Police Station, while another citizen “disappeared” in Alexandria’s Karmouz Police Station…

If a police officer tortures and rapes a detainee, he’s given three years in prison… And if an officer beats a detainee to death, he’s also given three years…

World Focus…

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Through the Scary Door…
Riot police in Sao Paulo clashed violently yesterday with plainclothes detectives who were staging a protest march.
TV stations captured footage of hundreds of state police in riot gear using tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets after striking civil police tried to break through a barrier protecting a state government palace.
The nearby [...]

30 May 2007: A woman from Qale’t el-Kabsh slum screaming at the police, outside the parliament in Qasr el-Eini Street, where citizens clashed with troops several times demanding alternative housing and compensations after the slum was burnt down…

From the Daily News Egypt…
The recent death of a pregnant woman allegedly at the hands of a police officer in the town of Samalut has again brought to the fore the transgressions of officers from the police force in Egypt.
And while the transgression is just one in a long line of reported cases, what was [...]

The North Menya Prosecutor has charged four police informers with beating the Samalout pregnant woman to death… AND OF COURSE, NOT A SINGLE OFFICER WAS CHARGED!

Journalist Belal Abdel Rahman, of el-Nass Channel, was tortured and had one of his ribs broken under interrogation by Officer Nasser of Meit Ghamr’s State Security Bureau…

Wael Abbas received a pic, shot by a mobile phone, of an overcrowded cell in an unknown police station…