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11Jun2007

State Security raids blogger's house

State Security has raided the house of 26-year-old Muslim Brotherhood blogger Mohamed Mosa'ad Yaqout, early Sunday, in Balteem. Ikhwan Web has the details...
Egyptian security forces raided on Sunday at dawn, June, 10, 2007, the house of the writer and blogger, Mohamed Mossad Yaqout. The security forces raided the blogger's house in Baltym, Kafr Al-Sheikh, at 2.00AM and disheveled the house furniture, seized the computer and a number of papers and books and they are still hunting Yaqout.
Yaqout said in a phone call with Ikhwanweb that"The security forces want to arrest me because I support Ghobashi Al-Atawi and Ashraf Al Sayyed, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the Shura Council midterm elections for the constituency of Baltym. They want to detain me also because of my anti-regime writings.
Yaqout, 26 years, confirmed that the State Security Police has no arrest warrant and it wants to detain him illegally. Yaqout, a researcher and web editor, is country chased by the security forces on groundless accusations.

Click on Yaqout's photo below to read the full report...

Down with State Security تسقط أمن الدولة

Reader Comments (3)

thank u hosam

Egypt: State Security raids blogger’s house...

In recent months there has been a crackdown on civil society in Egypt. This has affected NGOs and the press, and bloggers. Last March the sentence of a blogger to four years in prison for "insulting" Islam and the Mubarak......

حمدلله على السلامة يا محمد

June 16, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterHossam el-Hamalawy

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