.@alaa released and live tweets of his latest TV interview

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If you know Alaa's case, you can skip this recap and jump to the horizontal line below. If you watched the interview with Yousri Fouda on OnTv, you can skip this post entirely.

Alaa surrounded by media

Alaa was released on remand on Sunday 25th of December after spending 56 days in custody. Along with 27 other suspects who were accused of attacking the Maspero building and army forces protecting it. Read the full list of accusations here.

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On the tear gas

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Guy sending tear gas back to police

Last night in Mohamed Mahmoud I sat on top of a wall to watch the battle between the police and protesters and after 5 minutes of watching skilful kids throwing back tear gas canisters at the police. We were showered with 4 or 5 simultaneously. Suddenly, I heard a hiss behind me, so I jumped and tried to remain low to avoid the smoke, behind a utility box to avoid anything falling on my head …

أصوات من مليونية تسليم السلطة

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تسجيلات صوتية للمتظاهرين في مسيرة و في التحرير اليوم.

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6 million in Tahrir

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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 …

Post-Jan25 in Minya

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Since I am currently unemployed and wasting my time following the thousand or so tweets that appear every hour on my twitter account. I decided to spend time with my father getting paperwork related to several court cases done. These cases happen to be in Minya and they are related to few areas of land he refuses to give up.

The first post-Jan25 change noticeable is that in almost all villages you can see murals …

Arab Revolutions Board Game

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Earlier I said:


Translation of a video testimony of a protester shot by the police on the 28th of January in Cairo

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This a very quick translation of this video testimony that was sent to me. I think it is very important and moving.

The video is slightly graphic near the end.

My name is Mohammed el-Faramawy

I joined the marches on the Friday of Anger on the 28th of January. I had a first aid bag on my back, I took it with me to Tahrir square to treat the injured, at around 1 the army …