Faisal's Tobril

Anonymous’s Message. Follow “The Plan”

So I heard yesterday over one of the Egyptian national radio that the new law criminalizing any action that disrupts “production” in both the public and private sector has been confirmed. I find this law to be absolutely ridiculous as it effectively means that workers will not be able to demonstrate, carry out strikes or [...]

Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil was sentenced to three years in jail by a military court for publishing a blog post criticizing military actions/torture/detention. Apparently, as reported by the ANHRI (arabic statement), Maikel’s lawyers were tricked by the military court into thinking the session was adjourned and thus they left. The blogger was then sentenced by [...]

This is a post by Just an Egyptian on the above. The post is in Arabic (mostly Egyptian colloquial) so apologies to all non-Arabic speakers/readers. I love what he has to say. To me, this is a post about the myth of accepting those of a different faith in Egypt and how the word moderate [...]

For all those slow of mind enough to think that the people/protesters are asking for a “war” against the army or anything to the like, this is not the case. They (the protesters) have said nothing to indicate this and anything you MIGHT even REMOTELY believe to have implied this was mid-read or misunderstood or [...]

Tentative list of those killed in the fight against the brutal, repressive Egyptian regime and its President since #jan25.

Two interesting things came to my knowledge in the past day. The first was through personal experience and the second was something that a friend told me about. They may be inconsequential to some (my friends certainly thought so), but I found them worthy of mention. First thing I went down to Maadi Grand Mall [...]

So I discovered lately that I was gravely mistaken in accusing, or even thinking that, the Government of Egypt follows traditional centralization techniques when it comes to power, as per the unwritten laws of authoritarian governments. Why? Hossam El-Hamalawy discusses the issue of Egyptian Security Forces apprehending, incarcerating and torturing leftist activists of El-Arish (Capital [...]

My good friend Ahmed El Droubi has been released! Thank Goodness. You've been missed Droubster!

Ahmed El-Sharqawi and Karim El Sha’er, two recently released activists with Youth for Change, have been abducted and detained from Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street in downtown Cairo by plain clothes security agents. The two were taken to Qasr El-Nil Police Station after their arrest. Inside the station, security agents took turns torturing the two young [...]