Graffiti artist arrested & referred to military prosecution

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

Graffiti artist Aly el-Halabi was arrested & referred to military prosecution. He is being held for 7 days pending investigations.The artist is also an activist in the 6th of April movement.

This is happening despite promises by Tantawi, head of SCAF, that civilians won't be tried in military courts. It has become the rule that SCAF doesn't fulfil its promises.

There is hardly a wall in Cairo (perhaps in the entire country) that isn't covered …

Guardian: Cairo witnesses blame security forces for bloodshed at Coptic march

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

Many people were screaming, women were crying and running almost immediately and add to that the fact once the beating started with sticks, within a few minutes we started hearing gunfire which it seems like -- from some of the casualties I saw -- were not blank rounds.

They were live rounds being used very, very quickly. It was an incredibly violent show of force ... it was chaos for a while.

It was absolutely enraging. Within a …

شهادة لبنى على مجزرة ماسبيرو

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

ساعتها كنت بقيت عند هيلتون رمسيس على النيل، و أغلب الناس ال فضلت كانت معي، كنت واقفة في وسط الطريقة باحاول أفهم ال بيحصل، فجأة لقينا ناس بتزعق فينا علشان نطلع على الرصيف، جرينا، لقينا مدرعتين جيش بيرجوا بسرعة جنونية في وسط الشارع ال مليان ناس. الأول افتكرتهم جنود أغبياء و هيموتونا بغباءهم. و بعدين المدرعات ابتدت تجري بسرعة مجنونة رايح جاي في الشارع، تجري في زيج زاج، تشوف مجموعة بتحاول تهرب فتجري وراهم، تطلع …

Sarah Carr's account of the Maspero Massacre

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

And then it happened: an APC mounted the island in the middle of the road, like a maddened animal on a rampage. I saw a group of people disappear, sucked underneath it. It drove over them. I wasn't able to see what happened to them because it then started coming in my direction.

Read it here.

You can also listen to her account of what happened in a phone interview with CBC radio.

6 million in Tahrir

in «Experimental & Humor» by moftasa
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Or rather 6 images of million man marches* (millionyyat) super-imposed on each other.

This was created with a Gimp plug-in that I wrote. This has a limitation of superimposing up to 100 photos.

Here are other samples created by the plug-in.

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Google+, created from a gif animation by Micaël Reynaud.

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All the results of the Google image search to the keyword 'Hosni Mubarak'.

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Same search as above but for pyramids.

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Google image search for keyword …

A 'study' by the State Security investigations on Blogs

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

A leaked State Security document titled 'An analytical study on blogs and electronic journalism' from 2006 was published recently on this site.

It starts with a brief history of ARPAnet and the Internet in general. Up to mentioning how to set up a blog and mentions both Instapundit and Technorati. It is full of inaccuracies and spelling mistakes. A preparatory school student can write a better school paper on the same subject.

The final comment …

أزمة البنزين

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

في أزمة بنزين في البلد، لأني بركب عجلة لأغلب مشاويري ما عنديش مشكلة. عندي عربية بس مقنتع أن الدعم على البنزين للسيرات الملاكي هو اهدار لأموال الدولة على الغني اللي يقدر يشتري سيارة، اسعار البنزين لو أرتفعت الزحام هايقل.

توضيح: أنا باطالب رفع الدعم من على البنزين للملاكي، الأجره والنقل زي ما هو بالنسبة للسولار والبنزين

Killing of protesters continues

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa
فجر السبت 10 سبتمبر عقب أحداث أقتحام السفارة الأسرائلية
القتلة,طبقا لشهود العيان هم عساكر الأمن المركزي.

ثلاث شهداء سقطوا في هذا اليوم، شهود عيان آخرين قالوا انهم شاهدوا سيرات الأمن المركزي تسرع وتدهس المتظاهرين

رد فعل الحكومة الأنتقالية لكل هذا هو اعادة تفعيل و توسيع بنود قانون الطوارئ

Three protesters died in the clashes that followed the break into the Israeli embassy. The description says that this man was killed by central security forces …