According to Global Voices, the well-known Egyptian blogger and film-maker Wael Abbas was attacked along with his mother in their house in Cairo. Wael made the announcement via his Twitter account.

My mother and I have been assaulted my a Police officer and his brother, they broke into our house and beat me up. My head has a cut and I lost one tooth. Police corruption has reached my house!

Abbas finally did make it to a police station to report the crime, after a period of non-responsiveness, according to GVO.

It is noteworthy that Abbas blogs on torture crimes committed by the Egyptian police. And his blog Al-Wa3i Al-Masri (Misr Digital) has published many leaked clips showing torture in police stations. According to Abbas, he was threatened a few times that he will be arrested or physically harmed.

Abbas finally answered a call from one of the bloggers, saying he had just arrived at the police station to report the assault. He said his mother was fine but that his head was hurting and that his tooth was gone!

Abbas’s YouTube archives were deleted at one point by YouTube.