505 Sinai Activist Detained
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) reports that a prosecutor has ordered the detention of activist (and blogger) Musaad Suleiman Hassan, better known as Musaad Abu Fagr, for 15 days of pretrial detention for trying to organize a sit-in to call attention to the grievances of the people of Sinai. Security arrested Musaad from his home the morning of December 26. He was also briefly detained in September.
HRinfo also reports that a Cairo court has thrown-out Alexandrian Judge Abd al-Fattah Murad’s lawsuit asking the government to censor the Web sites of human rights organizations and blogs. Judge Abd al-Fattah claimed the Web sites supported terrorism and endangered national security. Coincidentally, they also accused him of plagiarizing HRinfo’s latest report on Internet censorship.
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In other news from Sinai, more than 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Hajj refused to be moved to camps in Sinai until the Israeli government gave them clearance to return to Gaza. They’ve been sitting in the desert for days. Yesterday, Palestinian medics said Israeli soldiers killed one woman and wounded four others as they crossed into Gaza. The IDF said it was unaware of any shooting at the border crossing.
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