The Freedom Committee of the Syndicate of Journalists, members of al-Ghad [Tomorrow] Party and supporters of Dr. Ayman Nour [al-Ghad's former president] staged a demonstration on the fourth anniversary of his arrest. Security forces had previously prevented them from staging it in front of the office of the Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court. The demonstrators chanted slogans in solidarity with Nour and called for his release, while his wife Gameela Ismail raised slogans against the Egyptian regime and the Ministry of Interior. Freedom Committee Secretary Mohamed Abdel Qaddus said he stood with Nour because he was a member of the Syndicate of Journalists and was convinced that Nour's case had been fabricated. He said the Syndicate Council had followed up the case and was sure it had been fabricated. He also affirmed that this case had tarnished Egypt's international reputation, as "the entire world knows this is a political case". Mrs. Gameela told Al-Masry Al-Youm that whenever she visited her husband, she was harassed by the prison direction and officers, as they tried to provoke Nour and fabricate notifications preventing him from being granted a conditional release. Such release is granted to prisoners after they have spent 75% of their jail sentence, which, in Nour's case, will end next July. She added her husband asked her to pay no more visits to him unless there were guarantees that she would receive proper treatment. She also said she talks to her husband every day through SMSs sent to terrestrial television. "I use a false name that Nour knows. That's how I could inform him that our child Shady passed the exam at the British secondary school a few days ago." Meanwhile, Ayman Ismail's father, Ismail Rifai, filed a notification to the public prosecutor because of the delay to issue the forensic doctor's report on his son's death. Ayman was a co-defendant in Nour's case (the charge was falsification of the authorizations for al-Ghad Party) and was found hanged in his cell after he had asked, from inside the prison, to be heard as a witness one more time.
