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March 18, 2007
Egyptian dissidents detained
We publicized the arrests of Abdel Karim Suleiman and Alaa seif el-Islam. Alaa was subsequently released, but now the Egyptian government is cracking down on activists, arresting some of them at a demonstration.
The charge against the 21 arrested [and detained] was for engaging in a public demonstration against the newly proposed Egyptian constitutional reforms. These “reforms” were proposed and approved by the ruling party-the NDP- and opposed by every other opposition group and party in Egypt.The most controversial of these amendments to the Egyptian constitution is the one concerning the new terrorism law. This is basically the much despised and criticized emergency law that Egypt has been living under for the past 27 years updated with a different name.
More on the rally and arrests, documented in real-time by bloggers.
Judith | 03/18/07 at 04:43 PM | Categories: - Power to the People
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A refreshing change to see KT standing up for the human rights of Islamists (many of the demonstrators, and indeed many of victims of the Egyptian government's "anti-terror" legislation, are members of the Muslim Brotherhood).
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