ALAA UPDATE: I’ve got more on the case of imprisoned Egyptian blogger Alaa over at GlennReynolds.com, and Sandmonkey has posted an update:

Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days “pending investigation”, which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. Him and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. This is why we aim to get them out of there as soon as possible, so that even if they do end up serving the entire 15 days- which they won’t have to if the government gets pressured- they don’t end up serving an extra day after that. No one deserves this happening to them, especially for exercising their right to free speech.

Read the whole thing, as they’re urging people to contact the State Department, too.