Human Rights Watch (via Reuters) quoted a freelance journalist saying that a blogger was arrested on Thursday, January 17th in Cairo. The police broke up a Kifaya-sponsored protest against cuts in government subsidies. The opposition group, whose name means “Enough.” Had called the protest for 3:00 p.m. that day in Saida Zeinab Square. The police arrested people, drove others to the desert on the outskirts of the city and headed off still others.

Per Bjorklund, a freelance journalist, told Human Rights Watch: “I arrived near the square at 3 p.m. There was a huge police presence, state security and riot control police, and plainclothes. We stopped our taxi well before we got to the square, and we were already seeing lots of police with radios. No one actually made it to the square. I saw at least 10 people being arrested, [and] I spoke through the window of a police van with Muhammad Gamal [a blogger] who told me there were already 10 people in the van when they brought him there. Then I was surrounded by six policemen or so who were shoving me around and took my SIM card and my camera flash [memory].”

Can anyone confirm Gamal’s arrest and tell us which is his blog? Were there other bloggers arrested as well?