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What started as a good day ended in shit! The police intimidated journalists and photographers covering the Nile Cotton workers sit-in by the parliament, before cracking down on the strikers, using sticks and batons, suspending their sit-in by brutal force… I'm finally home, but I'm a bit tired so I'll snooze shewaya, but will upload more pix and blog later tonight… And to the Sheriff of the Sayyeda Zeinab Police Station, who gave us a long patriotic speech, promising the journalists leaving the sit-in that nothing was gonna happen to the strikers: You are a fucking disgusting liar, and hopefully next time I'll snap a picture of your ugly face to add to the Piggipedia…

El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence launched its third report on torture in Egypt amid sharp exchanges between members of the center and a journalist from the weekly Al-Osbou.

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