705 Egyptian Blogger Detained Under Emergency Law

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and the Hisham Mubarak Legal Center report that Mohammed Refaat, a student and a blogger, was detained on July 21 on charges of “threatening public security” by using the Internet to call for a strike on July 23. Refaat apparently approached a State Security officer who goes by the assumed name Hisham Tawfiq at State Security headquarters after he found his house had been searched and his computer and books had been seized. He was then detained and charged in case No. 1143 for 2008.

On August 17, the organizations report, a State Security prosecutor ordered him released, but officers brought him back to State Security headquarters.

I took a quick look at Refaat’s blog and could find nothing political.

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  1. Clearly a bad man and a danger to society. If I had to do things like that, I would feel safer walking the streets of Cairo at night knowing that he had been removed from them. Love the pic on the his blog: Adel Iman and whathisname, you know – the old guy who beat up the car parking dude a year back in LA. Makes you wonder if they didn’t start a brawl down at Trattoria one night. Adel refused to pay his bill, next thing you know he’s got Omar head butting him and calling him an ungrateful wetback…

    Comment by MC — August 26, 2008 #

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