Posts Tagged ‘Alexandria’

VIDEO – Alexandria’s Carnival of Reaction and Bigotry

The Islamists in Alexandria were no different from their brethren in Tahrir on Friday…

يسقط يسقط حكم العسكر

Down with SCAF…

VIDEO – Alexandria protesters denounce the army انسحاب المدرعات من أمام اعتصام سعد زغلول بعد رفض المعتصمين لهم

Military armored vehicles showed up on Monday night for the first time near Saad Zaghloul Square in Alexandria, where a sit in is ongoing since 8 July. Protesters started heckling the troops, chanting: “The people want the downfall of the Field Marshal (Tantawi)”, “Out! Out!” and “We are not cowards. We will die in the square!”

The troops withdrew.

VIDEO – CSF conscripts mutiny in Alexandria

Central Security Forces conscripts in Dekheila, west of Alexandria, went on mutiny yesterday, staging protests, firing into the air, then tried storming Dekheila’s police station, setting fire to two police cars, after an officer assaulted a conscript in the camp.

Residents in the area according to eyewitnesses joined the conscripts, who were chanting “We are soldiers. We are oppressed” إحنا عساكر مظلومين which lasted for hours before senior officers convinced the soldiers to return to their barracks, as the interior minister announced the suspension of the officer and opened an investigation into the incident.

This is not the first time the CSF conscripts go on strike since the outbreak of the revolution. I recall on the 29 of January, during our failed attempt to storm the interior ministry, that the man next to me was a CSF conscript who told me he had escaped from his camp on the first day of the uprising and decided to join the protests. I also met in Tahrir two days ago a CSF conscript from Menya, who told me he refused to shoot protesters on the Friday of Anger and allowed some of the detained activists he had in custody to escape, only to be punished by his officer with electric shocks and imprisonment for ten days.

The above mentioned two cases are my own personal experiences. Other activists I know, almost all of them, encountered at some point during the uprising similar cases of CSF soldiers on mutiny joining in.

Moreover, local media reported on a number of occasions in the recent months cases where CSF conscripts went on strike in their camps over ill-treatment by the officers or over their work conditions. In those strikes, conscripts usually assaulted their officers and destroyed their offices.

The CSF are the interior ministry’s slave army. We have to confront them when they attack, but we should always do our best to win them over at the same time. It’s not an easy job, but they, not the officers, are our allies.

VIDEO – Egyptians push for total revolution

Anti-govt protests continue

Thousands have started flocking to Tahrir since the morning, as anti-government protests continue in Cairo, Suez and elsewhere.

In Alexandria, mass protests are taking place now in front of the Security Directorate, denouncing the interior ministry, calling for the prosecution of police torturers and demanding impeaching Khaled Gharraba and minister Mansour el-Essawi. Striking workers from several companies have joined the protests.

The protesters in Alexandria have taken down the interior ministry’s flag from the poll in front of the Security Directorate.

Oh, and the call for a million-man protest in Heliopolis to denounce Tahrir and express support to SCAF managed to draw roughly 14 protesters!

VIDEO – Killed by the police

Video of a protester, identified by El-Badeel as Islam Refa’at Mahmoud, being run over by a Central Security Forces vehicle in Agami, Alexandria, on 28 January, the Friday of Anger… His killers haven’t been held accountable…

#Jul8 Who needs ads?

Protesters staging a sit-in since Friday, in Alexandria’s Saad Zaghloul square, have taken of the electronic billboard, and are using it to disseminate revolutionary propaganda and calls for protests. Ironically, that commercial billboard is manufactured by Sakr, one of the army’s factories. Nice job shabab…

#Jul8 VIDEO – Protests in Alexandria مظاهرات الإسكندرية

Protesters in Alexandria on Friday denounce the army, police, price increases, and call for the continuation of the revolution…

Salafis and police in Alex

The Alexandrian salafis have convinced nine families, who lost their loved ones during the uprising, to change their testimonies and drop the lawsuits against police officers, in exchange for financial settlement outside court.

This is a disgrace. Shame on the salafis. Those police officers should be tried publicly and those families should have received financial compensations from the interior ministry much early on…