egypt issues

This looks absolutely outrageous to me. Whatever most of us feel about the Muslim Brotherhood, sentencing 529 of its followers to death over a riot in which a police officer was killed looks like the kind of thing a fascist government would do. Link

Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html Love is beautiful, the second time around....

http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/World/Shame_Male_Egyptian_Soldiers_Kick_Cairo_Woman_Protester-6205.html "10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers viciously beat up a woman protester in Cairo and as the woman lay helplessly on the ground her shirt is ripped from her body and a man kicks her...

With parliamentary elections only days away, there is fresh oppression in Tahrir Square. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15809739 The demonstrators seem to have a legitimate grievance. As I understand it though, the representatives elected in the elections will write the new...

The recent "Arab Spring" uprising in Egypt hit surprisingly close to home today This afternoon, while perusing a website, I was prompted to ask a question that, in retrospect, I am seriously ashamed of myself for not asking before. In answer to that question, I learned the sketchy details of...

The request for a solidarity rally was made by the opposition groups in Iran: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_opposition But the government has turned down their request, it seems...

The entry for Thursday 3 February 2011: http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html Wasn't there a company with a similar complaint in Iran?

In the midst of the Egyptian protests, pro-Mubarak forces appear to be targeting journalists. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03journalists.html?hp

There have been threads in the past on this topic, but it occurred to me that at the time I simply accepted the premise that Egypt did pump gas into the tunnels as a fact, although Egypt has denied this. Then I remembered that people often die in manholes from gas without some villain...