Former Egypt presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail called on Egyptians to gather in Tahrir Square on Friday to protests the bloodshed of last Friday in Abbassiya, when the army forcibly evacuated the sit-in initially called for by Abu Ismail to object banning him from running for the presidency. The sit-in witnessed violence previous to [...]
CAIRO: A mass crowd, popular chanting, political banners and street vendors – the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘million-man march’ on Tahrir Square today has become an all too familiar sight. The real battle appears to be unfolding at the army’s headquarters, where clashes have erupted between protesters and the military this afternoon. Egypt has seen a new [...]
An Egyptian doctor volunteering at one of the makeshift hospitals in the Abbassiya district of Cairo assisting the wounded on Wednesday told the al-Dostour newspaper that at least 15 people have been killed in violent clashes that erupted massively on Wednesday morning. According to activists, “army sponsored thugs” attacked the demonstrators near the ministry of [...]
Egypt’s ministry of health said five were killed and 42 injured Wednesday after a new attack on protesters in Abbassiya and around the ministry of defense. Khaled al-Khateeb, head of the emergency care unit in the ministry of health told reporters on Wednesday that the injuries vary from bone breakage and cuts. He said the [...]
CAIRO: Friday saw a massive demonstration in Tahrir called: “The Friday for Protecting the Revolution and Self-Determination.” Today, supporters of the ultra-conservative hard-line Salafist Abu Ismail have commenced an open ended sit in, to protest the recent ruling of the elections commission that disqualified Abu Ismail from the presidential election. The commission said his mother had [...]
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians flooded Tahrir Square this morning in protest against military rule and the disqualification of Islamist presidential candidates. Established opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, Liberals and 6 April Youth Movement, assert unprecedented unity in a common demand to bring down the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF). [...]
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians will fill Tahrir Square today to protest military rule and the disqualification of Islamist Presidential candidates. The dominant Muslim Brotherhood and ultra-conservative Salafists were unexpectedly striped from their respective candidates Khairat Shater and Salah Abu Ismail earlier this week, straining tensions even further in a turbulent race for the presidency. “There [...]
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists organized a mass rally for Sunday to protest presidential candidates ban. Islamists will fill Tahrir Square Sunday to protest the High Elections Council’s announcement barring Muslim Brother Shater and Salafist Abu Ismail from Egypt’s presidential race, according to a source within the Muslim Brotherhood. “We will not protest immediately. We [...]
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to denounce the former head of intelligence Omar Suleiman’s decision to join the presidential race. Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafists mobilized supporters to the square this morning in a call to “protect the revolution” from a perceived intention of Mubarak-era officials to dominate national politics once again. “[Omar] [...]
CAIRO: 40 political movements and coalitions, called on the masses of the Egyptian people, to participate in the one million man demonstrations on Friday April 14th, in Tahrir Square, and in other squares in different governorates. The Muslim Brotherhood group announced on Wednesday it joined the calls for the protests on Friday and would [...]
CAIRO: The Political Affairs Committee of the Parallel Parliament of the Youth of the revolution called for staging massive protests on Friday April 20th, in Tahrir Square under the slogan “the people want to overthrow the remnants of the former regime” – and, to do so against the remnants of the former regime, in order [...]
CAIRO: The Salafist candidate, whose mother is rumored to holding US citizenship, is at risk of being removed from Egypt’s presidential race. In light of these reports, Abu Ismail supporters filled the square in early afternoon in discontent and anger, leading to strained tensions with opposition activists. “This is a political set up,” says [...]
The Arab Spring challenged former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s strategy, which is referred to by one prominent Egyptian diplomat as the Mubarak Doctrine. For a long time, Mubarak had convinced the United States of the existence of only two political forces in Egypt. On the one hand, was his moderate authoritarian regime, an ally of [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian human rights organizations met Sunday for a press conference to call for the banning of live ammunition in dispersing protests in Egypt just two days ahead of the second court session over cancelling the use of such weapons on Wednesday. Activists Malek Adly, who was hit by a rubber bullet [...]
CAIRO: Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, on trial for ordering the killing of protesters in January and February 2011, claimed in a letter published by a local newspaper that he is “innocent” of all charges. In the letter, published by Tahrir Newspaper on Thursday, Mubarak said he was saddened by what he described as “baseless” [...]
CAIRO: On Qasr el-Aini street heading toward central Cairo’s Tahrir Square barbed wire meets those attempting to traverse this main artery near the Egyptian Cabinet building. It was here, in December where rock throwing between police and protesters piqued. Today, it is blocked, armed riot police with shields ready wait patiently for any unrest. Turning [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s official government-run National Council for Human Rights said in a report published on Tuesday that the military and police used “excessive force” against protesters, which sparked widespread violence and clashes in November and December last year. “The use of excessive force by police and military forces, without justification, in dispersing Tahrir Square’s peaceful [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Revolution Youth Association called on Egyptians to take to the street and protest against the military junta on January 31, dubbing it as the “Tuesday of Determination,” the group said Saturday in a press release. The protest aims to re-ensure that the revolution is “continuing” and to “voice the demands of an end [...]
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