Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah has been jailed on charges of inciting violence. Abdel Fattah spoke to Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous back in February.
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The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.
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Sampsonia Way has been following the case of imprisoned Egyptian pacifist and blogger Maikel Nabil who has now been on hunger strike for more than sixty days.
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A demonstration against religious persecution of Coptic Christians turned fatal, and led to increased media censorship from Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.
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“Today, let bones be smashed like the dreams of our youth” says Shihab, the protagonist of Magdy El Shafee’s graphic novel Metro. An English translation of the banned Egyptian graphic novel will be available in 2012.
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Egypt’s Supreme Military Council is censoring domestic newspapers, raiding television stations, and reinstating emergency laws that will put journalists on trial in military courts.
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