Stories from the dictatorial pro-US government of Egypt: Meet Muhammad Baha' Ad-Din. His story is told in the Arabic press. For thirty years, he worked as an engineer, and never dealt in politics. But when Egyptian president Husni Mubarak started to groom his son to succeed him, Baha' Ad-Din had had enough. He purchased a spray paint can, and went around the city of Zaqaziq and scrawled: "No to political succession based on inheritance." The police arrested him and charged him with "hatred and disdain of the regime". That was the official charge, literally. The press accounts through the Arab world forced the government to release him this morning.