From the BBC
Egyptian police have released a pro-Palestinian blogger who was detained last week during a rally.
Egyptian-German student Philip Rizk was held on Friday, north of Cairo, where he helped organise a protest in support of the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said he was bundled into a white van with no licence plates, which then sped off.
His sister Jeannette, 26, declined to elaborate on his condition or to say if he had been told he would face charges.
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Meanwhile a member of the banned Labour Party has been imprisoned for the crime of visiting gaza without a passport. The US sponsors such thorough-going dictatorships
From AP
An Egyptian court official says a military tribunal has convicted an opposition lawmaker of illegally crossing into Gaza and sentenced him to two years in prison and $1,000 dollars fine.
The secretary general of the banned Labor party, Magdi Hussein, was arrested Jan. 31 after trying to re-enter Egypt from Gaza without a passport.
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