Interesting, from Al-Jazeera:
More than 300 Egyptian lawyers have occupied a court building in the northern Sinai town of al-Arish in protest of police brutality against two of their colleagues.
The protesters have refused to end their sit-in, which they started on Sunday, to support two lawyers who they claim were assaulted by police during a demonstration last Friday.
"Down with the prosecutor office. Down with the law of the jungle. End torture of the detainees," the lawyers shouted, refusing to move after a police officer tried to mediate with the group on Monday.
As the story mentions, Egypt launched a nasty, extrajudicial crackdown in the Sinai after last year's bombing there. As Human Rights Watch has noted:
The Egyptian authorities have identified only nine suspects as responsible for the Taba attack, but the ministry of interior continues to hold an estimated 2,400 detainees. The government has not released information on the whereabouts of these detainees either to their families or lawyers representing them, and has not indicated if any have been charged with crimes.
That HRW report is titled: "MASS ARRESTS AND TORTURE IN SINAI."
