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 [...]
NOTE: This post covers a number of issues.Apparently, the Egyptian government needs the flimsiest of excuses to arrest members of the Press. According to BBC, Al Jazeera's Egyptian Bureau Chief (Hussein Abdel Ghany) has been arrested by Egyptian security forces. Apparently, the man wrongfully claimed that an attack on an Egyptian police patrol had occurred [...]