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 …

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 …

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 …

ما فيش حاجة تتقال

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.

ملخص عن ما شهدت بعد مذبحة ماسبيرو - تحذير محتوى وصور صادمة

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 …

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

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 …

This is a phone interview recorded with Margaret Prescod of Radio KPFK on the 2nd of February at around 3pm that day.

The phone call is super imposed on videos I took with Sarah Carr's flip camera.

One of the shots was taken by Youssef Faltas.