Egyptian blogger and activist @alaa has been given 15 days

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by the military tribunal when he refused to answer their questions or recognize their legitimacy because they were part of the crimes at the Maspero massacre of protester.



Alla Abd El Fattah's wife @Manal is 9 months pregnant. He was just here at Occupy Oakland and San Francisco, missing the police riot in Oakland by a day. @Alaa was also jailed by Mubarak prior to the revolution.

@tigerbeat Steve Rhodes
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Background on @alaa just given 15 days detention in #Egypt by @RobertMackey NY Times @thelede nyti.ms/vj6xWg #FreeAlaa #OccupySF #OWS
16 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

http://twitter.com/#!/tigerbeat/status/130633379048722432

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1. @sharifkouddous covered the hearing on twitter.

Bahaa Saber was "tried" with Alaa and is also being jailed.



http://twitter.com/#!/sharifkouddous/status/130565630482055168/photo/1

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2. K&R

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3. Before visiting Bay Area occupations, Alla spoke at at human rights conference

here in Silicon Valley. Post from 10/24, and video at link.



http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/egypts-military-goes-after-democracy-activist-and-pdf11-speaker-alaa-abd-el-fattah

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4. Trending globally

http://trendsmap.com/topic/alaa

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5. Bahaa Saber leading chants in Tahrir on Jan 25 at about :33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRDWQLQ-gsk&feature=youtu.be&t=33s

The junta is clamping down on Jan25 activists.

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6. Alaa Abdel Fattah: Portrait of a revolutionary

Zeinab El Gundy, Sunday 30 Oct 2011

Prominent Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was summoned today to Cairo’s notorious C28 military prosecution headquarters to face charges of incitement to violence in the violent 9 October Maspero clashes between Coptic-Christian protesters and military police.

Abdel Fattah, who rejects the notion of civilians being tried by military courts, has refused to be interrogated by military prosecutors as a matter of principle. He has also vociferously criticised the idea that the military prosecution should investigate the Maspero clashes, in which military police were directly involved.

As a result, the military prosecution ordered his detention for 15 days pending investigation.

Abdel Fattah is considered one of Egypt’s pioneer bloggers, along with his wife, Manal Hussein. Since 2004, both have been publishing their political opinions in well-known blog www.manalaa.net.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/25533.aspx