UPDATE, 28 November 2011:
Alaa Abdel Fattah's has been transferred to a civilian court and his detention has been extended by 15 days.
http://bikyamasr.com/49824/detention-of-egyptian-blogger-alaa-abdel-fattah-extended-by-civilian-court/
Above are several portraits of Alaa Abdel Fattah in various colors located on a wall of the AUC downtown campus.
Fattah is a prominent political activist. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail after refusing to report to a military prosecution to be questioned about the Maspero events. He does not believe that civilians should be subject to military courts and thus refused to be interrogated by the military. He also does not believe that the military should be investigating the Maspero events because it was the military who allegedly attacked peaceful protesters.
Fattah was jailed for 45 days in 2006 after participating in a peaceful protest. At the time his arrest garnered international attention because it was interpreted as a crackdown on bloggers by the Mubarak regime.
Fattah comes from a family of notable political activists. Fattah and his wife, Manal Hussein, moved to South Africa in 2008 and returned to Egypt during the Revolution.
He and his wife write the well-known blog www.manalaa.net.
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