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Egypt's most famous bloggers, @Alaa and Bahaa, face military prosecution Two prominent activists and bloggers are questioned by the military prosecution over their alleged incitement of the Maspero clashes earlier this month
Activists Alaa Seif and Bahaa Saber arrived at the offices of the military prosecution Sunday morning to face questioning over their alleged role in instigating the deadly Maspero clashes which left scores dead and injured earlier this month. Both men were due to be questioned last week but a hearing was delayed because Seif was in the US, where he spoke to American protesters taking part in the occupy wall street movement. According to lawyer Nesma Zahran , a member in El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, Seif and Saber are facing charges of inciting the downtown Cairo clashes between Copts protesting the torching of a church in upper Egypt and their Muslim supporters on one side, and the army and the police on the other. At least 26 people were killed and dozens wounded in the army/police clampdown on the protesters on 9 October in front of the state TV headquarters (Maspero). The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) later expressed "regret" for the incident, but continued to try and put the blame for the violence on Coptic and secularist incitement. Veteran political activists, bothSeif and Saber were arrested in 2006 for criticising the former regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Seif, along with wife Manal Hassan, runs the well-known political blog ‘Manalaa.' Possibly Egypt's most famous blogger, his twitter account has over 45,000 followers. According to Egyptian human rights activist Mona Seif, militaryprosecutors claim to possess video footage proving that Seif and Saber had incited protesters to commit violent attacks against army personnel at the height of the Maspero clashes. SCAF has been under fierce attack for referring around 12,000 civilians for trial before military courts after assuming power on 11 February following the ouster of Mubarak.
