The Egyptian government has nothing to fear from the nascent US debate on what US policy should be with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood, as this typical American voter attests:

When opposition politicians and rights groups complained that amendments to Egypt’s constitution would enshrine the Emergency Law in the Constitution by giving police free rein to arrest, search, and spy on citizens without judicial warrants, some government officials responded with the line, “You just need to trust us. These powers are only for legitimate investigations [...]

Via Reporters sans frontières:
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate release of arrested human rights activist Ibrahim Zoro, who regularly posts material on foreign-based opposition websites. It noted that two other people were in prison in Syria for posting similar material.
It said the state security service, whose agents arrested Zoro on 5 [...]

Hossam has linked to Judge Abd al-Fattah’s lawsuit here. It’s riddled with factual errors. More on that later. It’s still not clear if this is going anywhere, but as commenters on Issandr’s original post on the topic noted, we have early warning in this case, and we should take advantage of it. A list of [...]

Did a little digging into Judge Abd al-Fattah Murad’s lawsuit to get the government to censor 21 Web sites and blogs:

Abd al-Fattah Murad will likely not be the judge in Abd al-Karim Sulaiman’s appeal. This would too nice a present to the defense team, who are engaged in a separate legal dispute with the judge [...]

This won’t do much to protect those gutsy Egyptian bloggers standing out on a limb to expose torture in Egyptian detention centers, but given that Egypt has for the first time jailed a blogger for the contents of his blog, and given disturbing reports of harassment and intimidation of bloggers by security forces, less courageous [...]

Just a quick postscript to Issandr’s recent post about the Maadi Stabber. Al-Mesryoon quotes an Interior Ministry official as saying that police have arrested 222 people in the hunt for the culprit.
Fine police work, boys.
I liked it better when this was a colorful crime story. Now I’m not sure if the crime is more sinister [...]

From the Shebab Kifaya mailing list. Haven’t verified the information or obtained the victim’s full and informed consent to publish the details here, so names and details redacted for the moment:
Citizen [...], known by [...] was subject to severe beating and use of electricity on sensitive parts of his body at the state security intelligence [...]

This, from the great code poet Alaa Seif, the Pink Dragon of the Bamboo Grove, is more elegant than Haiku:
< /mubarak>
If the new language of Egyptian activism is code, it looks like it will be as direct and as sparse.

Here’s a scan of the front page from the Dec. 19 Daily Star Egypt:

And here’s the original photo:

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Notice anything?
Sources at The Daily Star say their printer unilaterally censored the photo.
Others who have edited publications registered abroad aren’t buying it: They say the printer would sometimes warn them about content that could get an issue [...]