Since the revolution started in Egypt I've been worried about my Pearson College friends who might be there and in the middle of it all. Last night I received this note from my friend Rime who has been in Tahrir Square since almost the beginning. I am relieved to know she is safe (for now) and promised to pass on this Facebook message. Please circulate this widely, as Rime has requested.

this is the first time i use the internet since our revolution started. i have been in tahrir square for almost a week now. i just came up this apartment to shower and to tell all of you out there PLEASE HELP expose the Egyptian regime's brutality and lies. mubarak has given a speech full of lies and simultaneously has used all his regime's money and power to control the media. since his speech the day before yesterday, we have lost many sympathizers, and just as he was succeeding in fooling everyone his regime waged war against us civilians, by sending the plainclothes thugs yesterday, they shot and threw molotov and rocks at us for 5-6 hours, and came back at dawn and used gunshots to scare us, killing 4 people. 1500 people were injured, only to feel more determined. last friday, more than 200 people were killed by the security forces, and after the police apparatus was defeated and cowardly retreated from all its posts, mubarak sent the same police yesterday in plainclothes and labelled them 'mubarak sympathizers'. don't be fooled. mubarak and his regime will not concede power without bloodshed and atrocity... but it's not over yet. we want him out and prosecuted along with his minister of interior.