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🔗 Demotix.com | The Street Wire

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Last Friday a 19 year old man was sentenced to 1 year in a young offenders institute for simply throwing a bottle at the embassy gates, which actually missed and hit a police riot shield causing no harm. Although he recently got married, had aspirations of becoming a dentist and had great character references, the judge said that he wanted to make an example the case, thereby sending a clear message of deterrence to the rest of the community. The Muslim community in particular felt that they have been targeted and see this as a warning message not to take part in protests in the future, particularly against Israel. Three of the protesters have been imprisoned for 18 months, two for 24 months and another two for 30 …

🔗 Inanities: Conscript

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Wretched is a better description. Wretched and stoic and, as usual, they – the silent poor – were on the frontline of Egypt’s relentless march to a better future: quite literally standing between the old guard and the forces of change, absorbing the blows of a battle not really being fought in their name. How will Mohamed ElBaradei or Hamdeen Sabahy or the workers’ movement reach these people? Once they take off their uniforms and disappear back into their underworld; illiterate, uneducated, too busy surviving on the margins to be angry, too marginal for their anger to count. Who will reach them?

🔗 Egyptian Journalist experiences police state first hand at May 4 anti-Mubarak demo | Menassat

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The rest of the time we listened to a bored police station employee (his exact job was unclear) hold forth on the press (“I read all the papers but trust [independent daily] El-Masry El-Youm most”) and press criticism of police violations (“Nobody is above criticism. Even doctors make mistakes and should be held to account”).