Essam back to prison!!

I've just received an SMS from a journalist friend saying "Egyptian court has struck down release order for Essam Erian and Morsi. They will be detained for another 15 days."

This is just sad... really sad...

Comments

[Issandr El Amrani]

mish ma'oul.

[Hossam el-Hamalawy]

Indeed! I'm PISSED OFF! What the fuck does State Security want from Essam and Morsi?! Let them go back to their families for heaven's sake!!!

[Issandr El Amrani]

Did they make any statements that might have pissed off the regime?

[Hossam el-Hamalawy]

None that I know of..

[Issandr El Amrani]

Here's the Reuters report on it for reference:

Egypt court reverses move to free senior Islamists
Wed 16 Aug 2006 10:12 AM ET

CAIRO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday ordered two senior Egyptian Islamists, arrested during anti-government protests in May, to stay in jail for 15 more days, reversing a lower court ruling to free them, court sources said.

Essam el-Erian and Mohamed Mursi, both leading members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, were detained in May during protests to support judges demanding greater independence from the executive.

A lower court on Monday ordered Erian, Mursi and five other Brotherhood members who were being held in administrative detention to be released, but prosecutors then appealed the decision, the sources said. The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the largest Islamist political movements in the Arab world.

The Brotherhood is officially banned in Egypt, but usually tolerated. Members elected as independents won 88 seats in the country's 454-seat parliament in elections last year, making the Brotherhood the largest opposition group.

The Egyptian police regularly detain Brotherhood members, and several hundred of them are now in prison