أصوات من مليونية تسليم السلطة

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa
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تسجيلات صوتية للمتظاهرين في مسيرة و في التحرير اليوم.

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On Admitting Michael Nabil to a Mental Hospital

I have to highlight how important it is that Michael Nabil is not a suspect in a violent crime. The military courts are trying him over a blog post that criticises the army, not killing or stabbing anyone.

Michael has passed the 50 days mark in his hunger strike.
Abassia hospital
He was referred to a mental hospital for observation for 45 days when his court appointed lawyers defended him saying that he is suffering from mental …

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 …