Nora Shalaby, activist and archeologist, holding a cartoon denouncing Zahi Hawass, on the early hours of Saturday in Tahrir…
The Tahrir Square sit in entered its ninth day on Saturday, with anti-government protests and sit-ins continuing around the country. Islamist groups are still absent from the scene.
A protester standing with a banner demanding the trial of regime figures and their public execution in Tahrir Square…
Protester carrying a banner titled “Revolution Law,” denouncing corruption and calling for the halt of gas exports to Israel and the renationalization of the privatized companies…
Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tahrir Square on Friday, starting a sit in, calling for the continuation of the revolution…
Independent trade unionists and labor activists demonstrate in Talaat Harb Square before marching on Tahrir, raising banners calling for the dissolution of the corrupt, state-backed General Federation of Trade Unions.
Tens of thousands of protesters flock to Tahrir Square on Friday, staging a sit in, calling for the continuation of the revolution…
Suez Canal workers continue their strike, and will be joining the martyrs’ families’ protests today…
Protester carrying banner: “Down with the corrupt military council, enemy no. 1 of the revolution”…
Thousands demonstrated on Friday in Tahrir Square, demanding public trial of Mubarak, his interior ministry Habib el-Adly, and other regime figures.
The square and the surrounding streets since early morning have been emptied from all police and military presence. Most of the established political forces, most notably the Muslim Brothers, did not take part in the demonstrations.
The families of the martyrs were present, and demanded speedy trials of the police murderers, as it’s becoming clear day by day that they will get away with what they did. More shockingly, most police officers who are currently undergoing trial still hold their positions (or have been promoted)! Demonstrators also denounced the brutal police crackdown on the protests in the square on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Protesters marched, in solidarity with the detainees, by 4pm on the ministerial cabinet headquarters and the interior ministry. Policemen from inside the interior ministry’s compound threw rocks and were making provocative gestures with their hands. Protesters responded by rocks and a shower of insults and chants against both the military and the police.
I’ve heard very strong chants, demanding the execution of Mubarak, Adly and Field Marshal Tantawi. While some are staging a sit in at the moment, others will resume protesting on Saturday, in the run up to the mass protests planned next Friday 8 July.
Hundreds of poultry farmers demonstrated on Friday, blocking the road in Maspero by the State TV building and the 6th of October bridge, demanding an end to police brutality against them. The farmers also accused the police of confiscating their live stock, without compensation, under the excuse of fighting avian flu, and selling them to the slaughterhouses. The farmers were also complaining about the continued bribes they were forced to pay the policemen, leading in the end to the rise of the prices of chicken and other live stock they are trading in to make up for their losses.
Hundreds of poultry farmers demonstrated on Friday, blocking the road in Maspero by the State TV building and the 6th of October bridge, demanding an end to police brutality against them. The farmers also accused the police of confiscating their live stock, without compensation, under the excuse of fighting avian flu, and selling them to the slaughterhouses. The farmers were also complaining about the continued bribes they were forced to pay the policemen, leading in the end to the rise of the prices of chicken and other live stock they are trading in to make up for their losses.
Hundreds of poultry farmers demonstrated on Friday, blocking the road in Maspero by the State TV building and the 6th of October bridge, demanding an end to police brutality against them. The farmers also accused the police of confiscating their live stock, without compensation, under the excuse of fighting avian flu, and selling them to the slaughterhouses. The farmers were also complaining about the continued bribes they were forced to pay the policemen, leading in the end to the rise of the prices of chicken and other live stock they are trading in to make up for their losses.
Hundreds of poultry farmers demonstrated on Friday, blocking the road in Maspero by the State TV building and the 6th of October bridge, demanding an end to police brutality against them.
The farmers also accused the police of confiscating their live stock, without compensation, under the excuse of fighting avian flu, and selling them to the slaughterhouses.
The farmers were also complaining about the continued bribes they were forced to pay the policemen, leading in the end to the rise of the prices of chicken and other live stock they are trading in to make up for their losses.
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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