Africa

NOVANEWS Aqsa protest in Egypt harvest 200 arrests including 3 women Demonstrators rallied in support of Al-aqsa which cried for help while thousands echoed its pleas across Egypt.           March 13,2010   Zionist Mu-Barak Police arrested approximately 200 members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egyptian governorates during the protests, which were organized today after Friday prayers in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Protestors assembled in contempt condemning the current incidents taking place by the Zionist illegal Occupational Forces against the holy Aqsa Mosque in Palestine. According to reports, sources relayed to "Ikhwanweb " that the number of arrests are expected to increase in efforts to weaken the group and prevent...

NOVANEWS Egyptian prisons lack of medical care leads to serious risk of death for numerous detainees Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates.        January 24,2010   alkarama.org Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates. In addition to this, Alkarama has been informing the United Nations human rights mechanisms of a further worrying problem in many Egyptian prisons, whereby detainees suffering from medical conditions at the time of their arrest, are given no medic...

NOVANEWS AMMAN — Jordanian activists and trade unionists slammed Zionist Mu-Barak regime  on Thursday for denying them entry to the Gaza Strip for the second time in less than a month to deliver aid to the blockaded Palestinians. "We are not shocked that Zionist Mu-Barak prevents us from delivering aid and medical supplies to Gaza," Ahmad Armuti, president of the Islamist-dominated unions' council, said. "We regret, reject and condemn Zionist Mubarak unacceptable position, not only towards our brave people of Gaza, but also towards all Jordanians." Armuti called on the Jordanian government to demand clarification from Egypt, which "should be pressed to change its position." "This will not stop the Jordanian trade unions from working hard to break the unjust blockade and resisting any form ...

NOVANEWS Moscow, June 12, 2010 (Pal Telegraph-- by Rachael Rudolph)-  In most countries the duty of an officer of the law is to protect ordinary citizens, and not to brutally beat, torture and kill those they are charged with protecting.  Two officers, Mohamed Alfallah and Awaad Elmokhber, have been accused of beating, torturing and killing Khalid Saeed in Alexandria, Egypt.  For many human rights observers the death of young Khalid is just one of many cases that have occurred at the hands of the current Egyptian government under the so-called Emergency Laws.Khaleed Saeed, a 28-year old, was in an internet café that he frequently visited when the officers stormed in demanding to see the identification cards of all those present.   Under Egyptian emergency laws, enacted following the assass...

NOVANEWS  by Sherwood Ross Although Egypt’s heir apparent Gamal Mubarak says next year’s election “is going to be free and fair,” his father Hosni’s regime has tightened the election laws to block other contenders to his presidency, an American magazine says. Mubarak senior has also used the odious Emergency Law to jail five of the 16 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in the past year and is imprisoning secular critics as well. People are afraid to speak out, much less run for office. Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, told Joshua Hammer of The New Yorker magazine that “Hundreds of bloggers are being summoned, kept for days, or weeks, or months, and then released.” One blogger, Mosaad Abu Fajr, who ripped the government’s human-rights abuse...

NOVANEWS "Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) in Fayoum City summoned Taha Abdel Tawab Mohammed, a physician from Fayoum governorate in Egypt who had been organising support for Dr. Mohammad Al Baradei, a potential presidential candidate in Egypt's 2011 presidential elections."

NOVANES "Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue." Notice that the anti-Semitism of the pro-US regimes is always forgiven. And this Hawas guy has clear anti-Semitic tendencies. Posted by: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS The Arab blogsphere is full of references and celebrations regarding the death of Mu-Barak qui rit. There are even songs.

NOVANEWS The head of the Information Committee of the ruling party in Egypt said that whoever asks him about the next president of Egypt is impolite. A woman in the audience said: I am impolite. (thanks Moustafa) Posted by As'ad at 7:53 AM SEE:www.angryarab.blogspot.com