Egypt Facebook activists jailed for 'threatening national security'

Police arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria and jailed 14 of them for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Around 30 young Egyptians who belong to the "6 April" group on the social networking site Facebook, a group which earlier this year called for a day of protests at rising prices, gathered in Alexandria on Wednesday. "We were heading for Sidi Beshr beach but a policeman prevented us getting there because we had a large kite painted with the Egyptian flag and we were wearing T-shirts with 'April 6 Movement' on," said Mohammed Abdel Aziz. He said that in the evening the group was walking along the seafront singing nationalist songs when police arrived and arrested 14 of them,... [read full story]