Anti-sectarian bloggers and activists detained

Several bloggers were detained at the Naga Hammadi train station when they arrived on Saturday following the killing of six deacons outside of a church on Orthodox Christmas, according Pakinam Amer of Al-Masry Al-Youm. One blogger said she slept on a cold floor in jail and was left without food or drink for ten hours. They were released after a day. When they returned to Cairo, they gathered at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center to discuss what happened.
“We weren’t going to do anything political. We were just going to pay our respects,” said Mostafa el-Naggar, who helped organize the trip. Then he laughed and added, “We had leftists and Nasserists and Islamists and Christians. It was all of Egypt in that jail cell.” Ashraf Khalil reports that the state press has largely ignored the sectarian element of the story, focusing on revenge killings in Upper Egypt.