Egypt: from 2011 demonstrations to today (6 Viewers)
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From Guardian:
1.09pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-44 Al-Jazeera in Suez says the police station in the port city has been taken over by protesters who have freed detainees. They have also set fire to three armoured cars. The reporter said the police were overpowered within minutes.
1.09pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-44 Al-Jazeera in Suez says the police station in the port city has been taken over by protesters who have freed detainees. They have also set fire to three armoured cars. The reporter said the police were overpowered within minutes.
From Guardian:
1.12pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-45 An eyewitness account from Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, who says police immediately set upon peaceful protesters:
We are in East Alexandria. Immediately after prayer, the people came out of mosque with banners and started marching, shouting 'we are peaceful, we are peaceful'. Security arrived and immediately began shooting teargas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, about 600. Then one-hour rock throwing clash, but police didn't advance more than one block and kept being pushed back. Then a massive column of protesters came from the other direction and blocked in police, holding up their hands and shouting we are peaceful. Right now police is held up in the yard of mosque and protesters all around, police can't move. They repeatedly ran out of teargas and begged protesters to stop, protesters telling them to join them.
1.12pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-45 An eyewitness account from Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, who says police immediately set upon peaceful protesters:
We are in East Alexandria. Immediately after prayer, the people came out of mosque with banners and started marching, shouting 'we are peaceful, we are peaceful'. Security arrived and immediately began shooting teargas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, about 600. Then one-hour rock throwing clash, but police didn't advance more than one block and kept being pushed back. Then a massive column of protesters came from the other direction and blocked in police, holding up their hands and shouting we are peaceful. Right now police is held up in the yard of mosque and protesters all around, police can't move. They repeatedly ran out of teargas and begged protesters to stop, protesters telling them to join them.
From Guardian:
1.14pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-46 There are reports a woman protester has been killed in Tahrir Square, Cairo's central plaza.
1.14pm:CloseLink to this update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-46 There are reports a woman protester has been killed in Tahrir Square, Cairo's central plaza.
From Guardian:
1.21pm:Moving pictures of people praying in the streets in Cairo are currently being broadcast.
"Nour", a young activist who was locked in the back of a police van with Jack Shenker, has told al-Jazeera that his Dad, Ayman Nour, a prominent dissident, is in intensive care after being hit on the back of a head by a rock thrown by government thugs. His father has diabetes and a heart condition. His father challenged Hosni Mubarak for the presidency in 2005 and was thrown in jail for his troubles.
Nour said there were government thugs in Cairo with "steel and sticks. It is very frightening and intimidating."
1.21pm:Moving pictures of people praying in the streets in Cairo are currently being broadcast.
"Nour", a young activist who was locked in the back of a police van with Jack Shenker, has told al-Jazeera that his Dad, Ayman Nour, a prominent dissident, is in intensive care after being hit on the back of a head by a rock thrown by government thugs. His father has diabetes and a heart condition. His father challenged Hosni Mubarak for the presidency in 2005 and was thrown in jail for his troubles.
Nour said there were government thugs in Cairo with "steel and sticks. It is very frightening and intimidating."
From Guardian:
1.29pm:Senior politician Mustafa al-Fiqi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Relations committee, insisted the government would not fall.
But speaking to al-Jazeera he admitted that Egypt has to take action against poverty and corruption, and give people more freedom
"It is very sad to see this confrontation," he said. "Police and the demonstrators both are Egyptians and we feel sad for the victims of both sides," he said.
He insisted that Mubarak would address his people in the next few days.
"People feel they need change," he said. But he claimed the current government would not fall.
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Days?? is he mad?
1.29pm:Senior politician Mustafa al-Fiqi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Relations committee, insisted the government would not fall.
But speaking to al-Jazeera he admitted that Egypt has to take action against poverty and corruption, and give people more freedom
"It is very sad to see this confrontation," he said. "Police and the demonstrators both are Egyptians and we feel sad for the victims of both sides," he said.
He insisted that Mubarak would address his people in the next few days.
"People feel they need change," he said. But he claimed the current government would not fall.
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Days?? is he mad?