560 Mass Protests in Gaza and Cairo

  • Thousands of Gazans have formed a human chain along the Israeli border to protest the continued closure of the Strip.
  • In other border-related news: Egyptian soldiers fatally shot an Eritrean woman trying to cross the border to Israel illegally today.
  • Thousands of students at Cairo’s Ain Shams University protested against the military trial of 40 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood yesterday. The tribunal is expected to deliver its verdict tomorrow.
  • From RSF:

    Blogger Tariq Biasi, who has been detained since 7 July 2007, denied posting comments critical of Syria on a website when he was questioned by a Damascus state security court on 22 February. The authorities identified him as the author of the offending comments on the basis of the connection through which they were posted, but he told the court he shared it with six other subscribers including an Internet café.

    Aged 22, Biasi is to be tried on 17 March on charges of “undermining national sentiment” and “publishing false information” under articles 285 and 286 of the criminal code, which carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

    There’s a petition for his release here.

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