For three days on the row, the interior ministry’s Central Security Forces have been waging a war similar to what the Israelis are doing in Palestine, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and bird shots at unarmed protesters.
The latest victim is our Salma Said, a leftist blogger and one of the bravest young women in this revolution, and who’s been active for years against the Mubarak’s dictatorship.
Salma received a hail of bird shots from an officer manning an armored vehicle that was terrorizing protesters in Bab el-Louq.
This is the security services trained, sponsored, and supported by the US and the EU.
A handful of protesters held a silent sit-in in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office Thursday, in solidarity with blogger Michael Nabil Sanad, who’s been sentenced by a military tribunal to three years in prison for “defaming the army.” Michael is currently going on a hunger strike against ill treatment. His father (below) has filed a report at the Public Prosecutor against the prison authorities.
Portrait of Sandmonkey, Mona, Gigi and I, taken by Platon for Human Rights Watch…
Amr Gharbeia‘s testimony re his kidnapping on 23 July…
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