Egypt's new military rulers jailed a prominent young activist Sunday - fueling fears that the bad old days haven't gone anywhere.
Alaa Abdel Fattah, a well-known blogger who had been jailed by the Mubarak regime in 2006, was ordered held for 15 days for his alleged role in inciting religious clashes earlier this month.
On Oct. 9, the military fired on Christian protesters rioting over the burning of a church. Twenty seven people died and hundreds were hurt.
"They committed a massacre, a horrible crime, and now they are working on framing someone else for it," Abdel Fattah told Reuters on his way to answer a summons from the military prosecutor's office.
He said the military was using charges of "incitement" to shift blame away from its own men.
"Instead of launching a proper investigation, they are sending activists to trial for saying the plain truth, and that is that the army committed a crime in cold blood," he said.
Abdel Fattah, whose wife is due to give birth to their first child any day, posted a last Twitter message that said: "Going in."
He and another activist who was later freed refused to answer questions, saying the military was involved in the violence and could not be impartial, according to lawyer Gamal Eid.
Twitter and Facebook were afire with activists calling for new demonstrations and the ouster of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the military body that took over from deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
The Council has sent 12,000 people to military trials and revived Mubarak's hated legal state of "emergency."
"The regime that arrested Alaa in 2006 is the same regime that is arresting him in 2011, it has not yet fallen," Muhamed El-Hajj wrote on Twitter, reviving a "Free Ala" campaign that was used in 2006 to free the blogger.
"Thanks for making our point for us by arresting Alaa. & post revolution. We now have #freealaa campaign pre & post revolution. U r the same regime," wrote Mahmoud Salem, better known on Twitter as Sandmonkey.
Meanwhile, Mubarak s murder trial was put on hiatus until Dec. 28 for a procedural matter.
The trial of Mubarak, his two sons, security chief and six top cops has been going on for nearly three months.
Mubarak was forced from power in February after an 18-day popular uprising.
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