Egypt Releases 30 Bloggers, Activists

Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm  daily reported January 16, 2010 that, “Around 30 bloggers and activists were released” that day  “after being briefly detained”  in Qena, Egypt, by the “Security Directorate.” See “Naga Hammadi bloggers' released after one-day detention.”

According to the publication, “The young men and women were apprehended in Naga Hammadi's train station, southern Qena, after traveling from Cairo to offer condolences to the families of victims of sectarian violence and pay their respect to Bishop Kirollos of the Naga Hammadi Diocese, who was allegedly himself a target in the attacks against Christians there.”

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