Manal and Alaa's bit bucket free speech from the bletches

lol you must be kidding.

people get arrested for no clear reason everyday in Egypt, in most cases involving amn el dawla (state security) they don't charge you until after questioning is over and in many cases they never get around to charging you with anything. they arrest you for as long as they want then release you without charges, without lawyers and without courts.

as far as we can tell (based on the words of the family, the lawyers and the syndicate), he was not charged and is being questioned without a lawyer, and since it is such a common thing it is safe to assume it is true.