Below is Human Rights Watch’s press release regarding Saturday’s state violence against protesters.
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For Immediate Release:
Egypt: Security Forces Attack Opposition Demonstrators
Eyewitness Testimony of Plainclothes Police Beating Protestors
(Washington, August 2, 2005) – President Husni Mubarak should urgently appoint an independent commission to investigate those responsible for ordering and carrying out attacks against demonstrators protesting his decision to [...]

This post is mostly speculation.
It is based off of rumor and information that is being passed around through phone calls and text messages regarding the cases of the detainees picked up during the anti-Mubarak demo on Saturday.
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What is Known:
First off - there were 24 people detained. According to HR activist Ahmad Saif al-Islam, 2 [...]

Yesterday, the groups that comprise Kifaya launched a protest against President Mubarak’s candidacy ahead of elections on 7 September.
PICTURES:
Pictures are in this album.
For the second time in shortly over two months, security quashed the protests violently. Plain clothed security employees beat and arrested the movement’s leadership. Some have been released while others [...]

As Issandr posted the other day, the Muslim Brotherhood and several leftist groups - most notably the Revolutionary Socialists - protested at the Lawyer Syndicate on Wednesday the 20th of June.
Here is a small selection of photos of the event.

A written account of Kifaya’s Abdeen protest will follow in the coming days when my schedule frees up.
For now:
Here is an album of pictures from yesterday’s demo.

Just saw Issandr posted as well. For those of you asking of Imbaba coverage, here is a double dose.

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For pictures see this album.
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Another Wednesday protest happened on the 6th of July.
It could of of been the heat, how busy the streets have been the past 6 weeks, or that my camera and I [...]

The biggest news of the week is the changing of the editors in Egypt’s big three state papers - al-Ahram, Akhbar al-Yom, and al-Gumhuriya.
At Al-Ahram:
Ibrahim Nafie was replaced by editor Osama Saraya and chairman Salah al-Ghamri.
At Akhbar al-Yom:
Ibrahim Saada was replaced by Momtaz al-Qut.
At Gumhuriya:
Samir Ragheb was replaced by Ali Ibrahim.
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There are rumors that [...]

Amir Salim — Nor’s lead defense attorney
Today, in the third day of Ayman Nor’s trial, judge Adil Abd al-Salam Guma postponed the trial until the 25th of September. This is two-and-a-half weeks after Egypt’s scheduled presidential elections on 7 September.
The immediate repercussions of today’s announcement suggest that Ayman will officially be a candidate [...]

Although the only candidates that have declared their intentions to run for Egypt’s presidency are Ayman Nor and Talat Sadat, the government finally, finally, finally set a date for the presidential elections.
Zakariya Azmy, the presidential office’s chief-of-staff, said that those elections will be on 7 September 2005 (which is a Wednesday).
Invest in mace now while [...]

So I am a couple days late.
After the Zaytoun protest on Wednesday, I was drained. At the post-protest festivities I could hardly concentrate. As I left, I told friends I doubted I was going to Ayman the following day. Fresh off the uncomfortable experience of Ayman’s first day at trial, I dreaded the thought [...]

On Wednesday, 29 June, Youth for Change (Y4C) held a demonstration in the Zaytoun section of Cairo. The demo was to be held at the Church of the Holy Virgin (Kanesat al-Azra’). Instead, it was moved down the street because of the security’s interference.
The group had come under pressure for conducting a demo at [...]

I will write either late tonight or tomorrow about today’s developments with Ayman Nor.
Sorry about this…but it was a wild day.
Pictures also coming….

This afternoon, the judge in charge of Ayman Nor’s forgery case postponed the hearing until Thursday morning.
In the courtroom, the prosecution framed his case by asking for key documents such as his birth certificate, his PhD certificate, his Parliamentary membership papers, and his national identity card. Speculation is that they are going to build [...]

Yesterday, a group of about 200 (Kifaya-ish types) gathered in Lazoughly Square to protest against torture in Egypt. The protest coincided with the International Day for Victims of Torture.
The protest’s site was highly symbolic. Held in a square named after Mohamad Ali’s first interior minister, Lazoughly is where State Security and the Ministry of Interior [...]

Yesterday, The Hamla Sha’biya min Agl al-Tagheer (The Popular Campaign for Change) held a demonstration in the Rud al-Farag section of Shubra (Northern Cairo).
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PICTURES:
Pictures of this protest are available here.
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For reasons beyond my control, I don’t have much time to blog.
So the quick highlights:
My band of friends arrived in Duran Shubra (Metro [...]

On Sunday, there is a protest at Midan Lazoghly - which is where State Security HQ are - to protest torture in Egypt. It coincides with the International Day for Victims of Torture.
The advertisement says the protesters will bid farewell to Egypt’s interior minister, General Habib al-Adly. The Kifaya offshoots (which seem to number [...]

Most of the papers, without getting to who said what, portrayed US Sec of State’s visit with with Egyptian figures following her AUC speech as “meeting with opposition”.
This is an overblown characterization.
First of all, in a conversation with someone in attendance, Rice was said to have done little talking and a lot of [...]

Youth For Change - the younger and newer activists on the protest scene - have a little news. Sponsors of yesterday’s demo against the Rice visit as well as last week’s protest in Sayida, Y-4-C is reporting that those detained from their group by Egyptian authorities last week are being released.
According to an email [...]

This afternoon US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, gave what the US Embassy in Cairo was touting as a “Major Policy Speech.”
Rice - who is on a five nation trip to the Middle East - came from Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan.
She spent about 10 hours in Egypt. Reportedly, she met with president [...]

Remarks of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
At the American University of Cairo
Monday, June 20, 2005
Thank you, Dr. Mustafa, for that kind introduction. I am honored to be here in the great and ancient city of Cairo.
The United States values our strategic relationship and our strengthening economic ties with Egypt.
And American [...]