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  • Journalists and human rights activists have been detained in Egypt [LAT]
  • Clashes in Egypt have left at least one dead and hundreds injured. [CBC]
  • A Halifax man has filed a human rights complaint after a bus driver refused to allow his unfolded twin stroller on Halifax Metro Transit [G&M]
  • As many as 200,000 marched on Tahir Square in Cairo to protest the continuing rule of Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak [CBC]
  • The Canadian government has agreed to consider lower-cost alternatives after an internal report questioned the efficacy of spending millions of dollars detaining refugees [G&M]
  • Egypt has released 6 journalists from Al Jazeera’s English service. Earlier, the television network was told to stop operations in Egypt [Reuters]