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26 Apr 09

Daily News Egypt - Sinai Bedouins protest hiked security raids

  • Bedouins in Sinai attempted in vain to protest Saturday against increased security raids in the wake of the Hezbollah cell case.
  • Security forces managed to scupper the protest but the assembled Bedouins who gathered near Al-Oja in an area called Abu Hashad decided that another protest would be held on June 1.
23 Mar 09

Agent provocateur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.
A political organization or government may use agents provocateurs against political opponents. The provocateurs try to incite the opponent to counter-productive or ineffective acts to foster public disdain—or provide a pretext for aggression against the opponent (see Red-baiting).
Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics

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07 Mar 09

Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.

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03 Mar 09

Egypt and beyond: Long live Palestine - and the Arab regimes

  • In other words, if any autocratic regime wants to use the convoy as a tool for domestic propaganda, they are most welcome to do so, because the campaign is not involved in "internal politics," and the organizers are too naive or careless to find out who they are dealing with.
01 Mar 09

Finally some sanity from the UK

  • One of the largest police organizations in the United Kingdom has joined photographers in protesting a law that could land a person in prison for ten years for photographing a police officer.


    The Metropolitan Police Federation this week stated that “poorly-drafted anti-terrorist legislation could be used to justify unwarranted interference in their lawful activities”.

Egyptian chronicles: Five journalists were fined because of some 100 years old law !!

  • Five journalists from Al Wafd and Al Masry Al Youm were fined L.E 10,000 on Thursday for defying the publication ban of Suzanne Tamim murder trial !!

    The 5 journalists are the chief in editors of the two newspapers and 3 journalists who were covering the trial.

25 Feb 09

المصرى اليوم - آخر نكتة: التنصت على التليفونات.. يجلب الاستثمارات

  • فى لقاء جمعه مساء الثلاثاء الماضى، بأعضاء «نادى روتارى كايرو رويال» قال وزير الاتصالات د. طارق كامل، رداً على سؤال من صحيفة «البديل» اليومية اليسارية، إن وزارته تسمح لأجهزة الأمن بالتنصت على مكالمات المواطنين الشخصية، سواء عبر الهاتف المحمول أو الأرضى، بحكم أن ذلك يحدث فى العالم كله، ولو لم نفعل ذلك، لما جاء إلينا أحد المستثمرين!

Jess Hurd: Big Brother

Britain is one of the most chocking police states on the face of this earth..

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الجزيرة توك Aljazeera Talk - حرب الشوارع فى مصر

Ahmad Mansour writes on the "war" between police and the people in Egypt, referring to street vendors, pharmacists, lorry drivers and the strike wave...

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