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Three days before he was arrested at an anti-regime protest in downtown Cairo, award-winning Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah told TIME he knew he might pay a price for speaking out, but said he had developed a taste for freedom of speech and would not give up so easily...
...Intimidation has reached a really serious level," Cairo-based Human Rights activist Fadi Al Qadi told TIME. "The record of the Egyptian security response towards peaceful demonstrators recently has been really awful. It is not legal, it is brutal, and it is a fundamental contradiction of the Egyptian government's promises of reform...
...Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's regime last week continued its crackdown on protesters, at right, who have been rallying against the government's decision to seek discipline for two judges who alleged fraud in last year's elections. Hundreds have been arrested, including Bit Bucket scribe Alaa Abdel-Fatah, who has become the agitators' virtual poster boy. Jailed on May 7, he blogs by passing notes to his wife, who posts them. His mood is surreal--"no feelings or emotions"; he hasn't joined other protesters on a hunger strike; and the jail has hundreds of cats. He is being...
...England's wealthiest, who would venture up from London every August to enjoy a spot of shooting. Of the 97% of Scotland that is rural land, 88% is privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of swish department store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown of Highland clan society in the turbulent years that followed parliamentary union with England in 1707, clan chiefs brutally evicted their tenants, clearing...
...rights activist Hossam Bahgat watched as police played a brutal cat-and-mouse game with remaining demonstrators, chasing them down alleyways and cornering them against barricades. "I saw some of them being carried into police trucks while their noses and mouths were bleeding," said Bahgat, the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights. "As soon as the judges arrived to offer the reform movement the moral leadership it direly needed, the government realized how dangerous these government demonstrations could be," Bahgat said...