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Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 19:00 schreef johnnylove het volgende:

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Hoor helaas veel van die geluiden dat het MO minder "invloed" wil van het Westen. In mijn optiek is het meer je onderbuikgevoel wat spreekt.

Net zoals je bv in Nederland hoort en ziet. Als de vorige machthebbers weg zijn, is veel hun schuld en de nieuwe machthebbers zullen het wel goed doen.

Maar laten we stellen dat het Westen niet de machthebbers had gesteund a la Syrie en Iran. Kan je het je eigen voorstellen?? Denk maar niet dat je dan toerisme had, Sinai woestijn, Suez kanaal. Wat je als steun ziet, is helaas bittere noodzakelijkheid zeker gezien de geschiedenis van het land.

Dat het regime bijv eiste dat je als buitenlander wilde investeren in Egypte 50% met een Egyptenaar moet delen. Daar kun je dan niet omheen, want niet investeren lijkt me voor het land niet wenselijk.

Maar maak me een beetje zorgen over de toekomst, omdat MB veel punten van de "revolutie" al vergeten aan het zijn. Zullen je problemen zijn opgelost zonder hulp van je vrienden te accepteren.

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Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 20:35 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Bericht Isra�li�r: Egypte pakt 'Isra�lische agent' op
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Wat-als-scenario is moeilijk voor te stellen. Ook in Egypte waren en zijn er mensen met gezond verstand. Ik vind het erg arrogant, als er word gezegd dat Egypte slechter af zou zijn zonder steun van het Westen. Kan het nog slechter dan nu dan??
Wat het Westen de afgelopen decennia voor Egypte heeft gedaan, noem ik zeker geen steun. Dat is gewoon vernietiging. Dus het is of dictators steunen of niets? Onzin toch.

Ik acht de kans erg klein dat de MB flink gaat scoren bij verkiezingen. Bij een enqu�te laatst scoorden ze iets van 20%.

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Op woensdag 15 juni 2011 14:44 schreef johnnylove het volgende:

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Jij noemt het arrogant, ik noem het bittere realiteit. Kijk eens naar de omgeving en hoe het Westen daarop heeft gereageerd. Je moet niet vergeten dat het leger een belangrijk onderdeel was en is van de maatschappij.

Daarnaast noem jij het geen steun. Hoe zie je steun dan? Het Westen kan zich toch niet bemoeien met interne aangelegenheden. Had je liever gehad dat het land werd binnengevallen om een regime-change door te voeren? Had het Westen de oppositie in het zadel moeten helpen? Je realiseert toch wel dat dit juist een tegenovergesteld effect zou hebben gehad op de bevolking.

Indien het volk zich verder gaat verzetten tegen het Westen is er geen enkel bedrijf wat daar op korte termijn zal investeren. En je krijgt ook nog eens een kapitaalvlucht.

Na de verkiezingen dien je het land op te bouwen en zal je hulp nodig hebben van bedrijven. (expertise) Of willen de Egyptenaren de wiel steeds opnieuw uitvinden? Egypte heeft zoveel problemen die gaan echt niet sneller voorbij als je de wereld voor Egypte kleiner maakt.

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Op woensdag 15 juni 2011 19:27 schreef rakotto het volgende:

Bloody Wednesday | الأربعاء الدامي | The Battle of Tahrir Square

Een filmpje van toen. Het begint op de dag van de aanval door de ruiters.

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Op woensdag 15 juni 2011 22:38 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Zijn gewoon smokkelaars. Er wordt nergens vermeld dat ze door Israel gestuurd zijn ofzo.....
Gebeurde in de pre-revo periode ook.

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Op woensdag 15 juni 2011 19:38 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Het Westen was daar gewoon zo hypocriet bezig als wat.

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Mubarak was slecht bezig en iedereen wist dat.

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Bij steun denk ik aan het verbeteren van de leefomstandigheden van de maatschappij. Wie weet kon dat bereikt worden door Mubarak op zijn vingers te tikken?

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Ik zeg ook niet dat het volk zich tegen het Westen moet keren ofzo. Ik begrijp natuurlijk wel dat andermans kennis en investeringen essentieel zijn, maar beide moeten wel positieve veranderingen brengen voor het land. En niet alleen voor de elite. Anders hebben veel mensen er niets aan.

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 17:36 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Door hem te boycotten zoals wat men bijvoorbeeld doet met Iran is al een hele stap.

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 19:33 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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En hoe succesvol is dat?

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 17:14 schreef johnnylove het volgende:

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Eigen belang eerst.

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Zo veel landen waar het beleid anders is dan hier in het Westen. Hoe wil je een beleid veranderen zonder geweld te gebruiken?

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Dient het land eerst te transformeren naar een open maatschappij. Begin is zkr gezet hopelijk neemt men de juiste stappen op de weg die open ligt.
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Denk je dat Westerse maatschappijen met een normale arbeidsvoorwaarden niet willen investeren in stabiele landen met een leuke afzetmarkt?

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 19:31 schreef rakotto het volgende:
De interpol heeft Hussein Salem gearresteerd in Madrid enkele uren geleden. Hij wordt binnen een paar dagen gedeporteerd naar Egypte.

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 22:07 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Heb begrepen dat dat wel eens lastig kan worden. Hij schijnt geen Egy nationaliteit meer te hebben, maar de Spaanse.

Die klootzak wil ik echt wel berecht zien worden, akelige vent is dat.....

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Op donderdag 16 juni 2011 22:28 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
En er is ook een uitleveringsverdrag tussen Egy en Spanje?

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La Vanguardia, a daily Spanish newspaper, published the details of the arrest of fugitive Egyptian businessman, Hussein Sallem Wednesday on charges of committing "economic crimes inside and outside Spain".

"The national court in Spain, which is the High Criminal Court, issued a warrant to arrest Hussein Sallem whom it has been watching for some time and noticed that he was trying to smuggle large sums of money," said Eduardo Mart�n de Pozuelo, an investigative journalist with La Vanguardia, adding that authorities in Spain decided to arrest him quickly, as well as his son and partner, before he could flee.

He said authorities found 32.5 million euro in Sallem's Mallorca residence, and that the Spanish attorney general decided to freeze his assets, worth 40 million euro. Sallem has had ties with former President Hosni Mubarak since the ousted leader's early years in power.

"The attorney general knows that there are investigations carried out in Cairo on Sallem, but he has not received thus far a request to extradite him to Cairo," Pozuelo said, adding that Sallem is accused of crimes in Spain and must be tried there first.

There is no criminal extradition agreement between the two countries, he said, which would make it difficult to extradite Sallem if Egypt does make the request.

One of Sallem's companies is allegedly involved in Egypt's controversial gas export deal with Israel.

Director General of the Egyptian Interpol Magy al-Shafie said he is coordinating now with the attorney general's counsel, Hisham al-Drandaly, to send a file to Spanish authorities regarding the extradition.

Shafie said the Spanish judiciary will consider the case and determine whether to hand Sallem over to Egypt. He added that Sallem, an ex-Egyptian army and intelligence officer who received Spanish nationality in 2008, was originally headed to Romania when he left Egypt.

Shafie said that Interpol is playing a major role in the pursuit of Egypt's fugitive former officials. It is currently following Hussein Sagwany and Wahid Attalla, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Youssef Boutros Ghali, and Yassin Mansour, he said, and a bulletin has been circulated on the wanted men in 188 countries in coordination with public security and immigration authorities.

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Premier Egypte wil verkiezingen uitstellen

De Egyptische parlementsverkiezingen, die gepland staan voor september, moeten worden uitgesteld totdat er een nieuwe grondwet is opgesteld. Dat heeft de Egyptische premier Essam Sharaf in een vandaag gepubliceerd interview gezegd.

Het uitstel zou het ‘politieke landschap’ van Egypte de tijd geven vorm aan te nemen. Sommige mensen denken dat verkiezingen in september onevenredig voordelig zouden zijn voor de Moslimbroederschap, de grootste politieke beweging in het land.

Het volgende parlement zal een groep mensen aanwijzen die een nieuwe grondwet moeten opstellen. Een parlement gedomineerd door de Moslimbroederschap kan leiden tot te veel religieuze invloed in de grondwet, zo is de vrees.

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Egypt's Consensus Conference wants military to guarantee secular character of the State


Egypt’s National Consensus agreed in their meeting Sunday that the new constitution should include an article that gives the armed forces the role of protecting Egypt’s civil institutions, regardless of the affiliation of the majority of the parliament (i.e. based on religion or other).

The decision came from the consensus’s Armed Forces and Investments and Monitoring Committee during their meeting today in the parliament building. The National Consensus is a conference led by the deputy prime minister, Yeyha El-Gamal, to discuss Egypt's interim period with political analysts, leaders and other interested parties.

The former social affairs minister, Mervat El Telawy, explained that this article would prevent Islamists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) or Salafists from adopting measures that would transform Egypt into a theocracy if they won a majority in the parliamentary elections set for September.

Several members of the National Consensus emphasised the need to draft the constitution before the elections to give nascent political forces time to gain momentum in the street, otherwise parliament will be dominated by old faces.

Samy Hegazy, a member of the committee added that today only three political parties have been established: the Free Egyptians Party, the Salafist El Nour Party and the MB's Freedom and Justice Party. The fact that there are so few official parties necessitates postponing the elections to give new parties the chance to become established, organise and campaign.

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Police disperse Muslims besieging church in Minya

Police on Thursday dispersed hundreds of Muslims besieging the Mar Girgis church in Bani Ahmed village, Minya.

They were protesting a decision by Minya Bishop Makarius to reinstate Father Georgy, the church priest, who had previously been removed on charges of inciting sectarian strife between Copts and Muslims.

Minya military commander Ezz Eddin Hussein requested that the bishop stick to an agreement reached in May to appoint Father Karas Magdy in Georgy’s place.

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Official statement: Military council against IMF loan

According to the new budget plan, Egypt will not have to resort to foreign loans to support its deficit, something the ruling military council was keen to avoid

A statement issued by the Ministry of Finance indicated that the reductions in the 2011/2012 budget deficit came as a result of consultation with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt’s de facto ruler since 11 February, and a social dialogue that the ministry called for during the preparation of the budget.

Egypt’s finance minister announced Saturday that the country will not need to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank. He stated that the ministry succeeded in reducing the budget deficit by LE27.3 billion, to reach 8.6 per cent of GDP instead of 11 per cent.

News agencies reported that Samir Radwan explained that the military council preferred not having large foreign debts, so as not to put pressure on the new government that will come after upcoming elections.

Radwan also indicated that the deficit will be covered through local borrowing as well as aid packages. The finance minister said that Qatar has provided $500 million as a “gift” for budget support.

There had been sharp public dismay at the interim government’s position towards financing the budget deficit through loans from the IMF or the World Bank, despite continuous official confirmations that loans would not entail any “veiled” conditions. The IMF agreed to a $3 billion 12-month standby finance arrangement for Egypt this month.

Up to last Tuesday, official circles were confirming that the loan acquiring process was proceeding successfully. Both the Ministry of International Cooperation and the World Bank denied news about the cancellation of a World Bank loan.

On Wednesday, Egypt's cabinet approved next's year budget, introducing severe cuts on the draft proposed by the Ministry of Finance in the beginning of June. Expenditure was reduced by LE27.3 billion, bringing the deficit to LE134.3 billion. Consequently, there was no need to resort to international borrowing.

Details of only LE 8.5 billion in cuts have been revealed so far, less than a week from implementation of the new budget.

A source at the Ministry of Finance told Ahram Online that another LE7 billion would be cut from public investment, without providing any further details. Ahram Online was unable to reach other officials at the ministry for comment.

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Rosenthal ontmoet Egyptische ambtgenoot
Laatste update: 18 juni 2011 19:17 info

DEN HAAG - Minister Uri Rosenthal van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft zaterdag in Amsterdam een ontmoeting gehad met zijn Egyptische ambtgenoot Nabil Elaraby. Rosenthal besprak met hem de ontwikkelingen in Egypte en in het Midden-Oosten.

Foto: ANP
De twee ministers spraken onder meer over het openstellen van de Europese markten voor landbouwproducten uit de Arabische wereld.
Volgens Rosenthal zijn economische hervormingen, naast die op het gebied van rechtsstaat en democratie, basisvoorwaarden voor een succesvolle omwenteling in het Egypte van na het autoritaire regime van de dit voorjaar opgestapte president Hosni Mubarak.
Ook kwam de situatie van religieuze minderheden als de kopten in Egypte aan de orde. De kopten zijn de laatste maanden vaak slachtoffer van specifiek tegen hen gericht geweld.

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Op zaterdag 25 juni 2011 22:32 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
IMF en haar wurgcontracten, daar moet je ver weg van blijven...

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Arab activists criticise conditions attached to western aid

As Egypt rejects IMF loan, Arab NGO network says liberalisation advocated in aid packages poses threat to economic and social justice demands made during recent uprisings

Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aid threatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the heart of the Arab spring, following Egypt's decision to spurn a loan offer from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Arab NGO network for Development said liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place.

"Such conditionalities should not be reinforced through various forms of partnerships and aid packages promoted in the name of democracy support," said a joint statement from 65 civil society groups. "The path to development of each country should be decided by its own people, via constitutional processes and national dialogue."

The warning followed Egypt's decision not to borrow from the IMF. The Egyptian finance minister, Samir Radwan, said on Saturday that Egypt would not borrow from the institution after revising its budget and cutting the deficit target from 11% to 8.6% of gross domestic product. The IMF said Egypt had scrapped plans for a $3bn loan agreed last month, a move that now calls into question the World Bank's own loan. Radwan said Qatar had provided Egypt with $500m for budgetary support in the past week, and Saudi Arabia had offered a similar amount.

Counter Balance, which monitors the European Investment Bank, argued that western governments tended to confuse the transition to democracy with a transition to liberalisation because it served their interests. "The European Investment Bank, for instance – which will be lending the biggest share of EU money – has been active in the region for 30 years without tangible development results for the people," said the group's Caterina Amicucci.

The NGOs said that as late as September 2010 the IMF was still praising Tunisia's "sound macroeconomic management and structural reforms over the last decade", and was calling for more of the same by restraining public spending on wages and food and fuel subsidies.

"Those same economic models are now being promoted, as if nothing happened, via the conditionalities attached to the new aid package," the Arab NGO network said.

Top officials from the African Development Bank, based in Tunis, have acknowledged that they were too blinkered in their approach to development, putting too much emphasis on economic growth and neglecting factors such as unequal growth, the urban-rural divide and income variation.

The Arab NGO network said if the west really wanted to support the region's democratic movements, it should start by eliminating the conditions attached to aid, assess previous lending by development banks in the region, guarantee full transparency of any new aid, cancel debt taken on by former leaders, and renegotiate international trade and other economic commitments signed by past governments.

Egypt has �18.5bn of debt, much of it run by Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who stepped down in the face of protests.

The Arab NGO network said that out of the �1.87bn (�1.6bn) lent by the European Investment Bank to Egypt between 2006 and 2010, 92% went on energy projects – and four-fifths of this to promote fossil fuels. Of the �1.8bn lent to Tunisia in the same period, half went to energy projects, and 10% was invested in infrastructure for transporting gas to Italy.

The G8 group of the world's largest economies in May pledged $20bn in aid via the multilateral development banks to Egypt and Tunisia.

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‘Egyptische leger geeft gebruik maagdelijkheidstests toe’

Het militaire bestuur in Egypte geeft toe dat er zogenoemde ‘maagdelijkheidstests’ zijn uitgevoerd op vrouwelijke demonstranten. Dat heeft Amnesty International vandaag bekendgemaakt. Een lid van de Opperste Militaire Raad zou hebben verklaard dat de tests een middel waren om beschuldigingen van verkrachting te ontkrachten.

De maagdelijkheidstests kwamen in maart aan het licht. Demonstranten zouden tijdens de betogingen tegen de toen reeds afgetreden oud-president Hosni Mubarak op het Tahrir-plein in Kairo zijn aangevallen. Mannen in burgerkleding belaagden de demonstranten en nadat het leger de demonstratie opbrak zouden vrouwen in gevangenschap zijn verkracht.

Diverse slachtoffers werden aan de tests onderworpen nadat ze aangifte deden van de aanrandingen. “Mensen onderwerpen aan zulke onterende tests om te bepalen of ze verkracht zijn slaat nergens op en is niets minder dan mishandeling”, stelt Amnesty vandaag. De organisatie wil dat de betreffende vrouwen medische en psychologische hulp krijgen.

Het lid van het militaire bestuur, generaal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, zei dat de tests niet meer zullen worden toegepast. Het was voor het eerst dat de Opperste Militaire Raad openlijk sprak over de tests en toegaf dat deze zijn gehanteerd.

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Gemeenteraden bewind Mubarak naar huis gestuurd

Een Egyptische rechtbank heeft vandaag besloten alle gemeenteraden naar huis te sturen. Die waren gekozen tijdens het bewind van de verdreven president Hosni Mubarak. De raden bestonden bijna geheel uit leden van Mubaraks partij na verkiezingen die volgens velen oneerlijk verliepen.

De zaak was bij de rechtbank aangespannen door een groep bewoners. De Egyptische regering kan nog in beroep gaan tegen de uitspraak. Activisten hopen dat de regering nieuwe verkiezingen uitschrijft voor de gemeenteraden.

In september zijn al nieuwe parlementsverkiezingen gepland. Voor het einde van het jaar kunnen de Egyptenaren ook een nieuwe president kiezen.

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Military council to decide on extension of transitional period within next 2 days
Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will declare its stance on the extension of the transitional period within two days, said Assistant Defense Minister Sameh Sadeq on Tuesday.

The council is to announce a new law on the People’s Assembly and Shoura Council, which will set forth its position concerning the date for the next parliamentary elections, which are currently set for September, Sadeq told Al-Dostor news website. He stressed that the council respects the will of the people.

However, he failed to comment on earlier statements by Deputy Prime Minister Yehia al-Gamal, in which he said that the SCAF had decided to extend the transitional period to December instead of September.

A military source told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Monday that the council is adhering to the September deadline.

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daliaziada daliaziada
Clashes between families of martyrs and police forces in #Tahrir now. Some reported that police is using thugs with swords!! #Egypt #Jan25

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Op dinsdag 28 juni 2011 23:44 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Wie is er "retiliating"? Politie/thugs? Of de families?

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Op dinsdag 28 juni 2011 23:48 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Live uitzending op AJ Mubasher nu

Reden:

Mensen protesteerden voor Maspiro, al een week ofzo nu. Zij willen dat de gewonden door de staat geholpen worden (Ziekenhuis betalen etc) en dat de personen die schuldig zijn aan het vermoorden van protesters sneller worden veroordeeld ipv dat de rechtzaken steeds uitgesteld worden.

Vandaag opeens kregen ze een uitnodiging bij een theater ofzo en zouden zij tegemoet gekomen worden. Ze waren uiteindelijk bij de theater en werden niet toegelaten. Opeens werden ze aangevallen door thugs en de politie uit het niets. Er werden toen 4 mensen opgepakt en ergens afgevoerd door de politie. De mensen gingen toen demonstreren bij de Ministerie van Binnenlandse zaken.

Bij de demonstratie daar zijn er gevechten uitgebroken door de politie en de mensen. Ze eisen de vrijlating van de mensen die net opgepakt zijn. Men ging dan terug naar Tahrirplein om verder te protesteren en wereden gevolgd door de poltie.

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Op dinsdag 28 juni 2011 23:48 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Politie is "wraak" aan het nemen.

الشرطه تعتدى على متضامن مع أهالى الشهداء

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Ge�pload door gsquare86 op 28 jun 2011

Families of martyrs from Maspero sit-in were invited to the honorary celebration of martyrs at Ballon theater. After being denied entry to the celebration, clashes between protesters and theater security erupted. The police showed up and started beating family of martyrs supporters shown in this raw video that I got from an eyewitness, who was there. June 28th

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:15 schreef rakotto het volgende:
The csf cars are inside in auc street... Shooting at us
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TarekNasr360 Tarek Nasr
by 3arabawy
Shots ringing through the air; pretty ironic that today is the 28th
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PerihanA Perihan Abou-Zeid
by 3arabawy
This feels like #Jan25 happening all over again!!!! #Tahrir

RadwaShalaby Radwa Shalaby
#MOI police on the outskirts of Tahrir - LIVE at bambuser.com/v/1778458
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MAswad Maha Al Aswad مَهَعْ
csf r withdrawing frm sheikh rihan st heading to #moi.
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Omniaaldesoukie Omnia E.Al Desoukie
now all entrance to #MOI are secured again! i.e no one is allowed to move around it #egypt
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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:17 schreef rakotto het volgende:
MOI = Ministry of Interior

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10 of the families of martyrs Agouza balloon scene, a group of people trying to break into the theater claiming to be from the families of martyrs and their rejection of the organizers of the event they enter the stage of trying to forcibly break the glass and the gate .. And managed security services to control the situation and adjust the number 7 of the rioters .. And subsequently the group to go to the area of ​​Maspero, where, joined by some protesters in front of the Union of Radio and TV, and went to the headquarters of the Interior Ministry building in downtown, where they rioted and threw stones at shops and cars, injuring some of the citizens of pedestrians and the number of police designated services that region .. The police confronted them, prompting them to go to the field of editing and continued to cause a riot .. The security services currently dealing with the situation according to the developments, and limit the casualties and damage and take the necessary legal procedures.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:34 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Livestream?: http://mubasher-misr.aljazeera.net/

We dachten eerst dat dit ging over die aanval in Kabul op dat hotel, maar je ziet steeds mensen met stenen gooien enzo... dus dat was het niet. Toen keek ik ff in dit topic en dacht ik 'hmmm'

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:35 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Misr (Wat in de link staat) is de naam van Egypte in Arabisch/Hebreeuws.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:35 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Zie m'n edit

Nou goed, een deel van die livebeelden hebben we dus hier besproken omdat we dachten dat dat over het hotel ging:

Aanval op luxe hotel in Kabul

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:42 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Oke, dat is ook wel het volgen waard dan. Dat hotel in Kabul wordt ook nog steeds flink belegerd trouwens. Helicopters, explosies, geweerschoten...

Gaat weer lekker in 't midden oosten...

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Hamzasarawy Hamza Sarawy
Protesters moving barricades to putter limits as #Egypolice surrendering

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 00:45 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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En Griekenland, Itali�, ...

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 01:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Italie?

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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
there is no sigos of the military p at all
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
an Alexandrian protester just arrived saying more are r on their way
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
الهتافات ‏مستمرة‏ ‏:‏ ‏الشعب‏ ‏يريد‏ ‏اسقاط‏ ‏المشير‏ ‏..‏ ‏الشعب‏ ‏يريد‏ ‏اسقاط‏ ‏النظام‏ ‏
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
هتافات ‏:‏ ‏الداخلية‏ ‏بلطجية‏ ‏..‏ ‏مسرحية‏ ‏مسرحية‏ ‏و‏ ‏الداخلية‏ ‏هي‏ ‏هي‏ ‏
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
هتافات ‏:‏ ‏الداخلية‏ ‏تولع‏ ‏
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
protesters r shouting saying they r ready for martyrdom
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
chants against the military
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
some protester is severely injured in the head. The police shot tear gas canister right thru his car window
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
خراطيش ‏رش‏ ‏ ‎birdshots fired by the #pigs http://twitpic.com/5ic7s9
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AhmedNergal Ahmed Nergal
by 3arabawy@
@3arabawy dr.ahmed farouk 0113638828 is in Tahrir now! Anyone in need contact him Spread !!
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3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
tear gas canisters r made in the fucking USA

3arabawy Hossam
we r thousands in the square.. Tear gas is still being fired
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3arabawy Hossam
they r advancing again from M Mahmoud st, firing tear gas #pigs
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3arabawy Hossam
tear gas resumed, from the parliament area

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 02:36 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Repent11 Moody Fahmy
by Sandmonkey
Injured people from Tahrir are being arrested from hospitals and taken to police stations.
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فيديو من قلب أحداث صباح 29 يونيو

أحداث التحرير 28 يونيو - 1

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Sandmonkey Mahmoud Salem
What's the best place to bring in supplies to Tahrir? Qasr el neel safe?
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@Sandmonkey Sme ppl r saying that the only ones in tahrir r baltageya angry coz Magales el Ma7aleya got cancelled, is that true?
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@H_Wahdan Nope. maybe the thugs attacking with the police are, but not from our side.
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Plaatje van een gewonde:

http://twitpic.com/5iienh

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Clashes are still taking place at MOI
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Zeinobia Zeinobia
15 ambulances in front of KFC #Tahrir
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AmnestyOnline AmnestyInternational
Amnesty in #Tahrir: Demo chanting "civilian, civilian". Young boys handing out vinegar to counter effects of tear gas.#egypt
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AmnestyOnline AmnestyInternational
Amnesty team did not see evidence of "thugs" clashing with security forces yesterday - saw families of #jan25 victims and activists #tahrir
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hackneylad Jack Shenker
Mohamed Mahmoud resident tells me CSF forces were urging him and his neighbours to help them throw rocks at protesters #Tahrir
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12:53 According to official figures released by the ministry of health, Tahrir Square clashes have thus far left 590 injured, 75 of which were taken to nine different hospitals while the rest were treated within square. At present, only 33 cases remain in hospital.
There are 32 ambulances around the square, ready to transfer more injured.


12:40: Tear gas rains down on protesters at the interior ministry from inside the ministry itself.

12:39 Volunteer doctors are arriving to offer assistance in the field hospital. Activists on Twitter are calling for medical supplies. An Ahram Online reporter sees more than one protester injured by rounds of pellets. Doctors confirm that injuries are due to pellet fire.

12:25 The Muslim Brotherhoods online website claims that thugs were trying to break into the ministry of interior as the revolutionary youth tried to protect the ministry. Sheikh Safwat Hegazy went to the square and asked the 'real revolutionary youth' and the martyrs' families to leave the square as to not give the remnants of ousted president Hosni Mubaraks regime and their thugs a chance to destabilise the country.

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12.58pm: The Egyptian health ministry said that up to 600 people have been injured in the ongoing clashes between protesters and police in central Cairo, and that nine have been arrested, Jack Shenker reports.

Jack Shenker

Right now the violence seems to have subsided somewhat, although tear gas is still heavy in the air and the centre of Mohamed Mahmoud street remains a debris-strewn no-man's land.

I've been speaking to more residents of the area who say that as the unrest began last night, they were asked by the central security forces (CSF) to help defend the Interior Ministry from 'thugs'.

About 50-100 of them did so and started throwing rocks at those facing off with the police, under the belief that the main street was being attacked by criminals intent on smashing up cars and shops. But when they saw the CSF police launching tear gas into Tahrir Square at about 11pm, the local residents fell back and stopped assisting the government forces.

"At the beginning this was a very small problem and we genuinely thought the CSF needed our help - they told us that if the thugs saw ordinary people standing side by side with the police, they would be scared off and calm would be restored," one man told me.

"But the CSF then made the situation much worse by deliberately firing into the crowds, which brought lots of peaceful protesters on to the scene and it turned into a big battle. I don't know why the CSF did that but it's their fault - it felt like they wanted to make trouble."

It's worth pointing out that the terms 'thugs', 'criminals' and 'counter-revolutionaries' are regularly deployed by the ruling army generals and government security forces to dismiss anyone deemed to be 'causing trouble' in this post-Mubarak transition period - including workers fighting for better pay, women struggling for equal rights, and slum-dwellers demanding better accommodation.

Whether or not there really were criminal civilian elements smashing up cars last night, it seems clear that the police wanted to put on a show of force in the streets - and as a result they now have now provoked a counter show of force from many ordinary people, who are determined to prove that Egypt's revolution is very much unfinished.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 11:18 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Vanochtend.

فيديو من قلب أحداث صباح 29 يونيو

Volgens betrouwbare bronnen kwamen de molotovs van de politie.

Lekker als je de moordenaars nog steeds hun baan laat behouden terwijl er rechtzaken tegen hun lopen.

Afgelopen nacht:

أحداث التحرير 28 يونيو - 1

Op het einde wordt hij opgepakt.
Wat ik ook grappig vind is dat de politie zegt hou het vredig, jullie zeggen vredig en dat het niet goed is, terwijl die lui traangas aan het vuren zijn.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 14:14 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
The Guardian Live: http://www.guardian.co.uk(...)dle-east-unrest-live


"But the CSF then made the situation much worse by deliberately firing into the crowds, which brought lots of peaceful protesters on to the scene and it turned into a big battle. I don't know why the CSF did that but it's their fault - it felt like they wanted to make trouble."

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Egyptisch duel Blom wijkt voor geweld in Ca�ro

De Egyptische voetbaltopper tussen Al Ahly en Zamalek, die scheidsrechter Kevin Blom woensdag zou leiden, is uitgesteld. Dat is gebeurd op last van veiligheidheidstroepen, nadat in de hoofdstad Ca�ro heftige rellen waren uitgebroken.

Ongeveer 200 jongeren raakten dinsdagavond laat op het Tahrirplein slaags met de politie. Zij gooiden met stenen en brandbommen en werden op hun beurt bestookt met traangas. Meer dan 40 mensen raakten gewond.

De Egyptische voetbalbond neemt zaterdag een besluit over een nieuwe datum voor de beladen derby tussen populaire clubs, de huidige nummers 1 en 2 van de Egyptische competitie. Blom was afgereisd naar Egypte samen met zijn assistenten Nicky Siebert en Patrick Langkamp.

Volgens een woordvoerster van de KNVB was het arbitrale trio nog niet meegedeeld dat de wedstrijd officieel was afgelast. De scheidsrechters verblijven in afwachting van nadere berichten in hun hotel.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 15:34 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Cairo derby will be held today says interior ministry
The Egyptian interior ministry has reversed its decision to postpone Wednesday’s Cairo derby between Ahly and Zamalek

The interior ministry announced that the Cairo Derby will be held Wednesday as planned by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA).

“A security source confirms that Cairo Derby will be held as scheduled,” Egyptian Television announced.

“We demand all security forces to support us insure the game goes as scheduled,” Interior ministry stated.

The EFA decided early Wednesday to delay indefinitely the possible league decider due to security concerns after clashes began Tuesday night between the police and protesters who were throwing stones at the interior ministry in Tahrir. The ministry responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

The decision to postpone the match raised concerns on the Zamalek side about "equal opportunity," while Ahly announced that the EFA must put the Red Devil's continental competition engagement into consideration as they are participating in the African Champions League.

Competing for their first title since 2004, Zamalek are second in the Egyptian Premier League table with 50 points, five behind arch-rivals Ahly who are bidding for their seventh successive trophy.
http://english.ahram.org.(...)-interior-minis.aspx

SPOILER

Net slip of the tongue op AJE: "...it has overcunt ... has overcome ...."

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acarvin Andy Carvin
they did? Where? “@TheMiinz: CNN confirms that El Essawy has resigned, so now it's BBC AND CNN. #tahrir”
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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 16:40 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Wedstrijd gaat door. Leger gaat wedstrijd veilig stellen zeggen ze en BiZa is er nog.

Gaat wat worden vanavond om half 9.

Een team heeft orders van hoge posities gekregen dat ze MOETEN spelen.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 16:47 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Propaganda-stuntje. Gaan ze spelen met een pistool op hun hoofd?

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 22:42 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Arme Nederlandse scheids, die komt echt nooit meer naar Egypte. Flinke opstootje in de laatste 10min......tussen de spelers gelukkig.

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Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 22:55 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Wie heeft er gewonnen?

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Washington didn't respond to requests to freeze accounts, says official

The United States did not respond to requests from the Egyptian government to freeze the bank accounts of members of the Mubarak regime, said Assistant Foreign Minister al-Husseiny Abdel Wahab.

He also said the Foreign Ministry is keen on chasing money siphoned out of the country.

Speaking at a forum in Washington, Abdel Wahab said the ministry does not know if the US administration is in contact with Islamist groups in Egypt, or if it is worried about the Muslim Brotherhood rising to power.

“But the US is interested in Egypt, as it is the key to the Middle East region,” he said, adding that a high US official responsible for religious freedom would visit Egypt soon.

SPOILER

waarom is alles geschreven in ComicSans?

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Op vrijdag 1 juli 2011 11:14 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Dat zou wel gaaf zijn.

Ik ga zelf 12 Juli naar Alexandri� en blijft tot 4 September. Ik zal wel wat proberen te maken in Alex.

SPOILER

waarom is alles geschreven in ComicSans?

SPOILER

Het is comic sans day

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Op vrijdag 1 juli 2011 15:46 schreef rakotto het volgende:
lilianwagdy Lilian Wagdy
muslim brotherhood were beaten by protesters and forced to leave with their podium #alexandria
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In cairo was dat ook het geval. Men wil de MB niet meer.

Protest alex: http://twitpic.com/5jh7sb

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Op vrijdag 1 juli 2011 16:09 schreef The-Dutch-Priest het volgende:
Ohh en Rvlaak gaat niet vanwege een kink in de kabel, maar hij had nog wel iets in zijn hoofd maar pas na de verkiezingen.

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Study alleges tear gas used on protesters in Cairo potentially 'lethal'
The “We Are All Khaled Saeed” Facebook page has published a detailed research paper on the tear gas used by security forces against protesters in Tahrir Square and at the Interior Ministry on 28 and 29 of June. The paper was prepared by a political activist named Ahmed Kamal.

It said the tear gas used has a shelf life of five years, but protesters have published pictures of empty tear gas canisters with production dates as old as 1987 and 2003. The use of expired tear gas increases its percentage of poisonous gas and leads to cancer, heart disease, and liver and respiratory problems, the paper said.

The pictures of empty canisters show a warning from the American manufacturing company, saying the use of the gas on people can cause severe injury or death. Activists also published photos of what they claimed to be the headquarters of the Pennsylvania-based company which manufactures CS SMOK tear gas - used in Cairo this week - displaying an Israeli flag.

The “We Are All Khaled Saeed” Facebook page, which played a major role in fueling the 25 January revolution and has more than 1.25 million members, claimed the tear gas canisters contain CS gas manufactured in Britain in 1950. Even in small doses it irritates the skin, eyes and mucous membranes. It can cause conjunctivitis and convulsions and disrupt women's menstrual cycles, and its effect increases with heat and humidity.

According to the paper, the American Medical Association has said the gas may be metabolized in peripheral tissues to form cyanide, which is a carcinogen.

CS gas also causes skin problems, and even in limited quantities it raises blood pressure, particularly in people above 30 and those who have aneurysms or suffer from physical strain.

The study also said CS gas leads to genetic mutations and chromosome anomalies. In the long term, it may lead to tumors and problems in the lungs and reproductive organs.

The inhalation of fresh air and sufficient oxygen and the rinsing of eyes and skin with large amounts of clean water may protect against the harmful effects of the gas, the study said. It also said that the canister is sold at US$25.

Al-Masry Al-Youm was unable to reach an independent medical source to verify the information contained in the research.

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Police, military clash with locals in Egypt near Libyan border
CAIRO, July 2 (RIA Novosti)
Armed police and the military clashed with local residents in Egypt's Salum town near the border with Libya, the Egyptian media said on Saturday.

Locals set fire to a police station and four police cars. Police reinforcement was sent to the area.
Media reports also said three Salum residents were injured in the clashes.

Riots broke out after the military shot dead an alleged local smuggler trying to illegally cross the Egyptian border by sea.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 09:48 schreef waht het volgende:

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احتقان بين أهالى السلوم والأمن بعد مقتل مواطن على الحدود

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 16:40 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Treurig dit. Relatie politie <> burger staat al zo op scherp.....

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 17:53 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Het respect voor de SCAF wordt met de dag minder ja. Alles gaat zo traag en stroef. Kan iemand a.u.b.wat WD40 spuiten op die oudjes.....

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 18:55 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Wat duidt erop dat ze zo graag aan de macht willen blijven?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 18:59 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Thugs @ Tahrir atm. Tenten worden in de fik gezet.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 19:15 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Is dat een antwoord?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 19:15 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Is dat een antwoord?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 19:35 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Ah, dus ook het leger maakt nu gebruik van thugs. Jij weet er blijkbaar meer van.

Thugs van ex-NDP leden? Of thugs ingehuurd door omwonenden en/of ondernemers op en vlakbij het plein? Dat kan ook allemaal.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 19:39 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Het leger heeft toestanden zoals in Libi� en Syrie voorkomen.

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lilianwagdy Lilian Wagdy
now protsters are chanting in front of tv cameras : we don't want tantawi #tahrir

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LeilZahra Leil-Zahra Mortada
Talking to street vendors they say they know each other & new unknown ones infiltrated them. They deny being ones who started this. #Tahrir

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:43 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Leger is een van de grote partijen die voor alle problemen zorgt in het land. Nog steeds media censuur, alles over de leger wordt vermijd.

Er wordt pas actie ondernomen wanneer er massale protesten zijn en vergeet niet dat Tantawi de schoothondje is geweest voor Mubarak, decennia lang.

Ik weet niet of je Arabisch kunt, maar zo ja, zie dan het volgende filmpje:

والد الشهيد مينا يحكي تفاصيل أحداث مسرح البالون

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:03 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Het leger besluit de families naar het theater te sturen om ze daar te mishandelen? Dat klinkt ook zo geloofwaardig. Ook erg onopvallend enzo.

Je kent vast het filmpje, waarop een jongen wordt mishandeld voor het theater. Je ziet duidelijk zwarte en witte uniformen rondrennen. CSF en politie dus.

Hiermee wil ik niet zeggen dat het leger super goed bezig is ofzo hoor. Er is altijd ruimte voor verbeteringen.

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Suez court orders release on bail of suspects accused of killing protesters

A Suez criminal court on Monday released all defendants accused of involvement in killing protesters on a LE10,000 bail.

The court also postponed the case to 14 September.

Angry families of the victims forced security agents to evacuate the courtroom for fear of clashes.

The former Suez security chief, nine policemen, one businessman and his three sons face charges of killing protesters during the 25 January revolution.

Suez saw the most violent clashes between protesters and police during the 18-day revolution.

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Outrage in Suez after policemen accused of killing protesters released on bail

CAIRO: The Suez Criminal Court released on bail 14 defendants charged with the murder and attempted murder of peaceful protesters, causing outrage on Monday among Suez residents who demanded justice for the martyrs.

Bail was set at LE 10,000 for each defendant, including 10 police officers, and the case was adjourned to September 14.

Activists said the police stepped up security in Suez in preparation for mass protests following the court’s decision. By mid-day there were unconfirmed reports that clashes had escalated as residents threw stones and set cars on fire outside the governorate office.

“The road leading to the governorate building was blocked by security forces,” Talaat Khalil, a Ghad party leader, told Daily News Egypt earlier on Monday.

Ahmed Abdel Gawad, a senior member of Al-Ghad Party, confirmed, saying that protesters were expected to head to the governorate headquarters later in the afternoon to condemn the court order and call for justice.

He added that they might hold an open sit-in at the governorate until their demands are met.

Ahmed El-Kilany, the lawyer representing protesters’ families, told DNE that while the decision is ultimately up to the court’s judgment “choosing to release these defendants at this timing will ignite the situation and increase the frustration of Suez residents against police forces.”

He added that the court order is an indication that the defendants may eventually be found innocent.

The accused include the head of the Suez Security Directorate, according to El-Kilany.

He said that clashes broke out between the families of the martyrs and police forces outside the courthouse in New Cairo.

The trial is held in Cairo instead of Suez for security reasons.

Suez witnessed the most intense clashes when the January 25 Revolution broke out as protesters demanded civil rights and an end to the Hosni Mubarak regime.

Official reports say that 29 were killed in Suez during the uprising, while over 1,000 were injured.

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Op maandag 4 juli 2011 17:53 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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De politie was buiten, de leger was binnen in het gebouw.

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Trouwens:

Suez:

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Wat een onzin. Het gaat nu mis in Suez.

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The government on Sunday gave preliminary approval to a set of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections.

The draft law will be discussed again in the cabinet meeting next week and will likely be given final approval, official sources said.

According to the new amendments, parliamentary elections will be conducted using a combination of the list-based and single-winner candidacy systems, and each system will account for half the seats.

The relative size of the constituencies will be taken into account when deciding which system to use, in order to give a fair chance to independent candidates and parties.

The amendments also stipulate redividing constituencies to consider population density. Governorates in desert areas with limited populations will have their own specific rules.

The age requirement for a parliamentary candidate will be lowered to 25, down from 30. Every list of candidates should have at least one woman, whose name should appear in the first half of the list, according to the amendments.

The amendments also call for ensuring a fair representation of the quota for farmers and workers on the candidacy lists, which indicates that the 50 percent quota for farmers and workers will remain.

Finally, the amendments say the number of seats available in each constituency that will use a list-based system for its elections should not be less than four or more than eight.

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Op maandag 4 juli 2011 20:58 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Na de onrust in Suez heeft het OM verklaard het niet eens te zijn met de uitspraak van de rechter.
Benieuwd wat de gevolgen zullen zijn.

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Op maandag 4 juli 2011 21:34 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Naja, niet veel beter, want een 14 jarig kind is net vermoord er zijn gevechten nu in Menial (Waar ligt dat? Cairo?) tussen politie en mensen.

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Dozens of protesters surrounded the Manial police station in Old Cairo on Monday night to protest the alleged killing of a teenager in the area by a policeman.

The boy's family sat in front of the police station along with his body, demanding that journalists photograph the covered body before its removal by ambulance. An ambulance arrived at 9:20 pm to collect the body.

Eyewitnesses claim that a policeman shot the boy near Manial police station at around 6:30 pm.

The shooting took place amid protests by families of people arrested by police earlier in the day during drugs raids in the shantytowns of the area. The protests began around 4 pm, when men blocked the Salah Salem Road to try and force police to release those arrested.

Military Police were deployed to the area and the armed forces sent several trucks along the Saleh Salem as protests continued. However, by 11 pm both police and the armed forces had withdrawn.

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Egypt riots erupt after courts back decision to free accused police


Hundreds storm security building in Suez angry at decision to grant bail to seven officers facing trials for killing protesters

Hundreds of protesters pelted the security headquarters in the Egyptian city of Suez with rocks on Wednesday, angered by a court's decision to uphold the release of seven policemen facing trials for allegedly killing protesters during the country's uprising.

Riots and protests have been escalating recently over what many see as the reluctance of the military rulers to prosecute police and former regime officials for the killing of nearly 900 protesters.

Ahmed el-Ganadi, the father of a protester killed in Suez during the revolt, said hundreds of residents had marched towards the government building housing the courts and security headquarters to protest against the court decision.

"The courts are corrupt. They are complicit in denying us justice," Ganadi said. "We will no longer wait for a court decision to get our retribution."

Suez, at the southern tip of the strategic Suez canal, was the scene of some of the most dramatic confrontations between police and protesters during the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.

The military council that took over from Mubarak has promised democratic elections in the coming months and a transition to a civil government.

Justice for those who killed demonstrators has become a rallying point for the protest movement, which has splintered in political debates over how to manage the transition period.

"This is the spark … God help us with what is to come," Ganadi said.

The court in Suez rejected an appeal against the decision in a Cairo court on Monday to grant bail to seven policemen facing trial for the killings of 17 protesters in Suez.

The angry relatives stormed the Cairo courtroom after the initial ruling on Monday, while others blocked a highway linking Cairo to Suez for hours. Hundreds in Suez have been holding a sit-in since Monday at one of the city's main squares.

Lawyers said the courts had consistently denied a request to add more policemen to the case.

"A sit-in until we get retribution," read one of the signs raised by the protesters.

There are already calls for large protests in Egypt this week demanding fair trials and retribution, as well as measures to purge former regime officials from political and economic life.

Only one policeman has been convicted in more than a dozen court cases over the deaths of at least 846 people killed in the government crackdown on protesters. He was tried in absentia.

Mubarak and his two sons also face charges of killing protesters and amassing illegal wealth. Their trial is scheduled to begin on 3 August.

Protesters complain that court officials have generally been lax with police officers accused of shootings during the uprising, allowing many to stay in work while facing murder charges or setting them free on bail. They say this leaves victims' families subject to intimidation.

By contrast, human rights activists complain that minor offenders and protesters are referred to military tribunals known for quick and harsh sentences.

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 11:36 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Een paar ministers zijn onschuldig verklaard. Gaat de goeie kant op in Egypte.

Check eerste minuut van video. Dan zie je hoe de politie was de afgelopen week.

آخر كلام: إخلاء سبيل المتهمين بقتل شهداء السويس

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Op woensdag 6 juli 2011 18:32 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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مظاهرات شهداء السويس بعد صدور قرار المحكمة برفض الطعن

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Egypt announces police shakeup over protests
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's security chief says hundreds of high-ranking police officers will be sacked for their role in a harsh crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this year.

Interior Minister Mansour el-Essawi says the July 14 shakeup will be the largest in the history of his ministry. He also ordered an investigation into the killings of nearly 850 protesters by police during 18-day uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down Feb 11.

Police has been accused of excessive force and held responsible for a dramatic crime surge.

El-Essawi's move come after two days of riots in the city of Suez where protesters pelted the security headquarters with rocks, angered by release of policemen accused of killing protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9730827

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Opruiers van ‘boze mannen op kamelen’ aangeklaagd door Egyptische rechtbank

Het hoofd van de Egyptische gerechtelijk onderzoekscommissie klaagt 25 mannen aan die betrokken waren bij de aanvallen van ruiters op kamelen en paarden op anti-regeringsdemonstranten in februari. Zij worden verdacht van opruiing en moord.

‘De boze mannen op kamelen’ zorgden voor een iconisch beeld van de demonstraties tegen de opgestapte president Hosni Mubarak aan het begin van dit jaar. Onder de verdachten bevinden zich onder andere assistenten van Mubarak en een voormalig voorzitter van het Egyptische parlement, meldt persbureau AP. Aanhangers van Mubarak op kamelen en paarden stormden toen op betogers af met zwepen en stokken om hen uiteen te drijven.

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Op donderdag 7 juli 2011 17:52 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op donderdag 7 juli 2011 22:36 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Net grote gevechten Voetbalsupporters/Ultras van Zamalek en politie. Veel politie gewonden in stadion tijdens wedstrijd en alle ultras zijn uit stadion gegaan en buiten verder gaan vechten en er kwam leger interventie

اشتباكات فى ماتش الزمالك و دجلة 2011-7-7

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Op donderdag 7 juli 2011 23:25 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Typisch Zamalek fans

اشتباكات فى ماتش الزمالك و دجلة 2011-7-7

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Factory owner and MP conspired to spark riots, say workers
Sources at a marble factory have reported to Al-Masry Al-Youm that the factory's owner has been conspiring with a former Member of Parliament to supply rubble to thugs with the intention of starting riots in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Cairo.

According to sources at the factory in the Sheq al-Thuaban area, a former MP from the now-dissolved National Democratic Party worked with the factory owner to supply the marble used in the fighting at the Balloon Theater and Tahrir Square on 28 June.

The two men are said to have been stockpiling rubble once more ahead of the protests planned for Friday, 8 July, with the intention of supplying it to thugs so that they can spark a riot between protesters and police.

Al-Masry Al-Youm has received a large number of phone calls making similar claims.

Meanwhile, Al-Masry Al-Youm called Assistant Interior Minister Ahmad Gamal al-Din to inform him of the claims. Investigations into the claims have so far revealed that the factory owner is known to have been involved in acts of thuggery and the rigging of elections in exchange for money.

The investigations have also revealed that the two men were last seen on Thursday getting into a pickup truck after allegedly agreeing to transfer large quantities of broken marble.

Security authorities have increased their presence in the Sheq al-Thuaban area to prevent any vehicles carrying marble from leaving the area.

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Muslim Brotherhood to join Tahrir Square demonstration


Islamist movement and political forces to demand justice against police and officials linked to Hosni Mubarak
Egypt's military-backed transitional government is bracing itself for the largest protest yet against its rule on Friday with plans for a "million-strong" rally to defend the revolution at Tahrir Square.

In a rare show of unity, Egypt's largest political Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, will join a vast array of liberal, leftist and secular political forces, including youth representatives from this year's anti-Mubarak uprising. They will demand that police officers and former regime officials are finally held accountable and that the army's grip over the justice system comes to an end.

"Take to the streets on July 8: the revolution is still on," reads graffiti scrawled across the Egyptian capital.

The demonstration comes at a perilous time for the authorities, following 10 days of street violence in Cairo and Suez as public frustration at the slow pace of reform begins to grow.

On Wednesday, armed security forces fought running battles with civilians, after several police officers accused of murdering protesters during the toppling of former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year were released on bail.

"The demands of the revolution have not changed since day one," declared the 25th January Revolution Youth Coalition in an online statement calling on Egyptians to join Friday's demonstration. "It was not just about toppling the old regime but about building a state where people can have freedom, dignity, rule of law and social justice."

The Muslim Brotherhood initially said it would boycott the rally due to disagreements with political rivals over whether a new constitution should be written before or after parliamentary elections. But the "constitution-first" demand has now been softened by rally organisers and the Brotherhood's involvement, which analysts believe is essential if the group wants to maintain credibility, looks set to bolster protester numbers significantly.

The government has urged demonstrators to "maintain the peaceful nature of the protest" and warned against "plots aiming to incite chaos in order to tarnish the country's image". Security officials have indicated that riot police will be kept away from Tahrir Square and deployed only in side streets, supposedly in an effort to avoid confrontation.

In another apparent attempt to appease the public ahead of the rally, interim interior minister Mansour al-Essawy has promised to purge up to 700 corrupt senior officers from the police force as part of the largest reshuffle in the interior ministry's history. But five months on from the protests that led to Mubarak's fall and left almost a thousand dead, only a single officer has been convicted of wrongdoing – and he is yet to be put behind bars.

"The problem is that the revolution has ousted President Mubarak but not his regime," said prominent author Alaa al-Aswany in a newspaper column this week – one of many decrying the continuing presence of Mubarak-affiliated ministers, judges, security officials and journalists among the country's political elite.

"The Egyptian revolution is now going through a critical moment, a real fork in the road. It can either win and accomplish its goals or (heaven forbid), it can also lose, leaving the old regime to return in a slightly different form," said al-Aswany. "This is why the demonstrations are important... to correct what went wrong with the revolution … We will go to the square ready to pay the price of freedom. We will be like we were during the revolution, ready to die at any moment."

Activists believe the rally could help challenge the military's legitimacy through innovative new forms of grassroots political participation, including a "civil referendum" which will see questionnaires about Egypt's future distributed among demonstrators and dropped in manned ballot boxes throughout the square. .

Young Egyptians have been using Twitter to swap techniques for getting past parental bans on attending the protest, using the hashtag '#fokakmenahlak', an Arabic word meaning "split from your family".

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2011 18:28 schreef rakotto het volgende:


Dit is hoe de bewakers zijn van de protesten. Ze hebben kostuums gemaakt en zo is het over de hele land

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2011 18:28 schreef rakotto het volgende:
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Dit is hoe de bewakers zijn van de protesten. Ze hebben kostuums gemaakt en zo is het over de hele land

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2011 21:35 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Spanje gaat zakenman Salem aan Egypte uitleveren.

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2011 13:46 schreef timmmmm het volgende:
Ik heb een beetje het idee dat egypte er niet heel erg op vooruit gegaan is, ligt dat aan mij?

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Egyptenaren verzamelen zich weer op Tahrir-plein

Egyptenaren verzamelden zich vandaag weer op stadspleinen en zetten tentenkampen op als protest tegen het machthebbende regime. Ze eisen snellere hervormingen van de interim-regering.

Egyptians demand faster reform process

De demonstranten, die zich net als tijdens de opstand in februari van dit jaar vooral verzamelden op het Tahrir-plein in Kairo, eisten ook dat degenen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor het doden van honderden van hen daarvoor berecht worden.

Het was, met duizenden aanwezigen, het grootste georganiseerde protest in Egypte sinds maanden. De Egyptische premier Essam Sharaf heeft toegezegd de eisen in beraad te nemen. Sharaf zei ook dat agenten die ervan beschuldigd worden betogers te hebben omgebracht tijdens eerdere protesten, uit hun functie gezet moeten worden.

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Egypt says navigation in Suez Canal continues as normal


Suez Canal navigation continues despite protests and strikes nearby, Egyptian authorities said on Sunday.

Ahmed al-Manakhly, an official from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), said all canal entrances are secured by workers in collaboration with the armed forces. The canal’s operations department works throughout the day to guarantee the safety of navigation, he told state-run news agency MENA.

Around 10,000 workers at companies affiliated with the SCA have staged protests over the past few weeks calling for disbursing delayed payments.

Families of the 25 January revolution martyrs threatened on Saturday to hinder navigation in the canal to protest the slow trials of policemen implicated in the killing of their relatives. However, the families decided to escalate their strike by blocking the Ain Sokhna road, linking Suez with the Red Sea Governorate, instead.

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Protesters block entry to Mugamma after PM's address

In their first response to the televised address given by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Saturday, protesters vented their frustration by blocking the entrance to the Mugamma, a large administrative building in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

On Saturday Sharaf ordered the suspension of all police officers charged with killing protesters. He also said he agreed with the head of the Cairo Appeal Court to fully dedicate particular judicial circles to trying officials and officers implicated in the killing of protesters. This move, he said, should ensure speedier trials.

Protesters said Sharaf's statement came late, and accused his government of slowness. Thousands swarmed Tahrir after the broadcast.

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El Sokhna port at the mouth of the Suez Canal won't be operating today, protesters say

El Sokhna port has stopped operations today as the dock’s workers have cut the Qattamiya Ain Sokhna highway and joined the sit-in blocking the road to the port, say Suez protesters.

Eye-wittnesses told Ahram Online many workers from both the El Sokhna port and factories and companies in the area have joined the protesters blockading the highway in solidarity with the people of Suez..

El Sokhna port is controlled by the Red Sea Ports Authority and the ministry of transporation.

No less than 150 companies have reportedly stopped work today at Ain Sokhna because of the road block.

"Many of the workers in these companies have organized strikes and sit-ins in the past few months, demanding fair wages," says Mohamed Mahmoud, a member of the Suez Youth block. "Now is a perfect chance for them all to join forces and call for social justice in addition to swift trial of corruption. It makes sense that they sympathize with our sit-in," says Mahmoud.

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Egypt's military council to respond to protesters within hours, say Ahram Online sources

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is considering releasing a new communique within hours in response to sit-ins in Tahrir Square and across the country, an informed source has told Ahram Online. It is not clear yet whether the statement will be published on the military council's Facebook page or will be read out by one of its members on state TV.

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf gave a short statement yesterday evening that intended to ease the tense atmosphere Egypt has been witnessing in the last two weeks. Sharaf's words, however, were ill-received positively by the protesters who have since called for a general strike in the coming days.

The military council are yet to respond to the demands put foward by the protesters and directed the interim rulers, not the government.

The General Freedoms Committee, which is part of the National Consensus Conference sponsored by the government, announced today that it supports the demands of the protesters, confirming that it agreed on the drafting of a new constitution, the formation of a civilian presidential council and an advisory council with civilian and military members.

According to MENA, Egypt's state news agency, Mohamed Fadaly, the head of the committee, announced that General Sami Enan, the Egyptian army's chief of staff, has commissioned the General Freedoms Committee to draft a new constitution.

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Protests spread in Egypt as discontent with military rule grows


Interim leader's speech fails to convince protesters blocking off Cairo bureaucratic headquarters and road to Suez canal

Protests have brought Egypt's administrative and commercial nerve centres to a standstill , as government attempts to stem a growing wave of opposition to military rule succeeded only in galvanising demonstrators further.

The interim prime minister, Essam Sharaf, took to the airwaves late on Saturday pledging to "meet the people's demands", following mass rallies across the country in which Egyptians accused the ruling council of army generals of betraying the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak this year.

In a short and strained address to the nation, Sharaf said all police officers accused of killing protesters would be stopped from working, and promised that the trials of former Mubarak ministers and other regime officials would proceed "as soon as possible". He insisted that social and economic problems would be reviewed by the army-appointed transitional cabinet.

But activists dismissed the announcement as empty rhetoric and claimed it contained nothing substantive. "His speech sounded like one of these tricks of the old government," Sherif, an engineer in his late 20s, told local news website Ahram Online. "If this government is unable to take serious steps, it should resign."

Several thousand people flocked to Cairo's Tahrir Square after Sharaf's speech. Anti-government activists have taken control of the roads there and an open-ended sit-in began on Friday. By Sunday morning, access to the Mugamma – a giant concrete building on one side of the square that serves as the bureaucratic heart of the Egyptian state – had been blocked off, with some employees reportedly joining the protests.

In Suez, another focal point for political unrest, the families of some of those killed in the anti-Mubarak uprising helped protesters cut off the main highway between Cairo and Sokhna port, the main transit point for goods entering and leaving the Suez canal. The canal has also been targeted by strikes and protests in recent days, although officials insisted that international maritime traffic remained unaffected.

Sharaf – a popular choice among revolutionaries when he was first appointed interim prime minister in March – has repeatedly claimed that he draws his legitimacy from Tahrir, and said again on Saturday that "the people" were the only sovereign power in Egypt. But analysts believe that the army generals have given him little control over policy and personnel decisions, and in recent weeks the 59-year-old has cut an increasingly frustrated figure in public.

Egyptian newspapers used their Sunday editions to highlight the widening gap between the supreme council of the armed forces, which assumed power in the aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow and has promised democratic elections before the end of the year, and large sections of the general public who believe that the pace of reform is too slow. "Protesters: Sharaf's decisions are not enough — Calls for hunger strikes and civil disobedience," stated the front-page headline in state-owned al-Ahram, the country's biggest-selling daily. Al-Tahrir, a new Egyptian paper that emerged out of the revolution, splashed with a smiling photo of the country's de facto leader, Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, under the words "The Marshall doesn't respond."

Activists have called for another round of mass demonstrations on Tuesday.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2011 17:09 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Het gebouw waar de Arabische Liga mensen naartoe gaan is geblokkeerd door de mensen.

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Waar lees jij dat van de Leger? Ik ben benieuwd naar wat zij allemaal zeggen.

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Interior minister rejects PM’s instructions to dismiss police officers

Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy on Sunday rejected instructions by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to dismiss police officers accused of killing protesters during the revolution from service.

“It is not in accordance with the law,” Essawy said. “Such a decision is in the hands of the Ministry of Interior.”

The minister also said that he was ready to resign if he felt that certain decisions were being imposed on him.

Responding to police officers alleging corruption within the Ministry of Interior, Essawy said that he has asked those officers to provide proof so that he can take immediate legal action; otherwise, he will sue them for libel.

Police officers staged demonstrations on Sunday, protesting the prime minister’s instructions. They said that the law allows the interior minister to temporarily suspend, not dismiss, the accused before the results of the investigations are announced, and that they should remain innocent until proven guilty.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2011 20:10 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Street by street, Egypt activists face Old Guard

Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — After the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, a group of young activists quickly moved to bring the can-do spirit of Egypt's revolution down to the level of their neighborhood.

They began installing electricity poles in Mit Oqba's dim streets. They got gas pipes extended to the area. They did what local officials had long promised but never done, with the aim of showing 300,000 low-income residents the benefits of an uprising meant to end the corruption and stagnation under Mubarak.

Then the activists' parents started getting intimidating warnings: Your children are going to get beaten up by thugs. An official who helped them get papers signed for extending the gas pipes was suddenly transferred to another post.

The activists had run into a collision course with powerful local members of the former ruling party. It was a lesson about the new Egypt: The old regime is still in place and fighting change.

"The regime is not just Mubarak and his ministers. There are thousands still benefiting," said Mohammed Magdy, one of the activists in Mit Oqba.

Mubarak was ousted five months ago, along with top figures from his nearly 30-year regime. But the military generals who now rule have been slow in — or have outright resisted — dismantling the grip that members of his former ruling party hold on every level of the state, from senior government positions down to local administrations. In the meantime, public anger that real change has not come is growing explosive.

The experience in Mit Oqba illustrates the conflict between old and new being waged street by street and neighborhood by neighborhood.

Under Mubarak's regime, more than 1,700 Local Councils nationwide, with more than 50,000 members, were elected in theory to represent their neighborhoods. In practice, they were a cog in the patronage and corruption machine of Mubarak's National Democratic Party. Election rigging ensured nearly all council members belonged to the party.

Often they would push projects that lined their own pockets or those of friends. For example, a street would get a new sidewalk if a firm close to the council or ruling party profited. Council members steered services to residents willing to do them a favor later.

The system helped ensure the regime's hold. Come election time, officials used their patronage to drum out voters for party candidates or to hire thugs to beat up opponents.

Late last month, a court ordered all Local Councils dissolved, potentially a significant step toward reform. But former members retain their connections, backed with cash, giving them a strong tool for regaining seats when new municipal elections are held.

"They have lots of money going around to people. They have ties with big families in the area," said Heba Ghanem, an activist working with Mit Oqba's Popular Committee. "Some who want to run for parliament are already slaughtering cows and distributing (the meat) in the neighborhood" — a common way to curry votes.

The same fear holds for national politics, where many one-time officials in Mubarak's party are gearing up to run for election in September.

The activist neighborhood groups, known as Popular Committees, aim to break not just corruption but also the apathy of Egyptians who have given up trying to make things better. They were born from impromptu neighborhood watch groups that defended homes in a wave of looting during the anti-Mubarak uprising.

The watch groups were widely popular as an example of Egyptians working together on their own initiative, and they won support from the young people who had fueled the anti-Mubarak revolt. There are now nearly 50 "Popular Committees" nationwide, each with volunteers working in their home neighborhoods.

Their self-imposed mandate: Make things better and get things done. Many of them have taken the additional title of "in defense of the Revolution."

That can mean anything — fixing infrastructure and providing literacy classes, working with residents on rooftop gardens or on better water usage, or monitoring officials to keep them accountable. Some conduct "name and shame" campaigns to expose those who take bribes or embezzle — whether policemen or bakers who sell government-subsidized wheat on the black market. They catch perpetrators on mobile phone cameras and publicize the footage.

In Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, a gas company needed to repair a damaged valve. But it wanted protection, because its team had to work at night.

With a general police pullback from the streets, the Popular Committee volunteered to provide security instead. The gas company feared offending police by cooperating with the activists, so the committee had its patrol just pass by the work site to make it look coincidental.

The company made the repair.

Mit Oqba, Magdy's home district in Cairo, provided a unique challenge and opportunity. Ruling party networks were strong in the crowded district, which was used to provide manpower for pro-Mubarak rallies during the uprising.

Soon after Mubarak's fall, the 24-year-old Magdy and his committee drew up a plan to tackle 12 prominent problems in the long neglected neighborhood. They organized installation of light poles for a dozen streets. Drug dealing was rampant, so they're pressing officials for more police.

The district badly needed a low-fee government medical clinic. One was under way, but workers — paid by the day — were delaying finishing it. So a committee member is camping out at the construction site, doing everything from badgering them to bringing them daily tea to get it done.

Local officials promised two decades ago to extend natural gas pipelines to Mit Oqba homes. It never happened. So the committee followed the paper trail and got a few approvals signed. Now the main pipeline has been laid, and the committee is helping residents register for connections to their homes.

With the successes, the harassment began, according to the activists. Local Council supporters hacked into the committee's Facebook group and sent e-mails to its members that caused fights among them, Magdy said. They transferred the official who cooperated with Magdy to sign papers. They pressured a principal into barring the committee's literacy class from his school.

To scare the volunteers' families, they spread word that armed thugs were waiting to attack them, Magdy said.

When that didn't work, the Local Council tried to take credit. In its newsletter, it proclaimed that it "promised and delivered" on the gas lines. Former ruling party members posed in photos by the new streetlights.

Magdy's group countered with its own newsletter, "The People Want," reporting on their activities and on former regime members trying to buy off loyalties. They also praised officials who helped them bring services.

In a last-ditch attempt, a local bigwig who once sat in parliament for the ruling party met with volunteers. He told them bluntly they would fail.

"Who lied to you and told you this party is dead and buried?" he shouted, according to Magdy. "We are still here and we will win again, with your help."

Zaghloul Rashad, a member of Mit Oqba's local district council, denied that the council had harassed the young activists, and called them "arrogant" young meddlers. He said the influence of the activists was limited to a few streets. He also denied the activists were responsible for the new gas pipeline, saying it had been approved earlier.

"Does the Popular Committee have a magic wand to say 'extend gas pipelines' and it happens?" asked Rashad, who plans to run for election again and expressed confidence he would win.

At the same time, Rashad complained that the activists can in fact march into a local administrator's office and press him into action, and he'll comply for fear of seeming anti-revolutionary.

"They couldn't even enter his office before," he said. "It is chaos!"

The activists are unfazed. In a snub to Mit Oqba's Local Council, Magdy's group hung a banner on Al-Gharib Street, where several council members own homes. One side proclaims "Goals We Achieved" and the other "Goals We Want to Achieve." So far, they've checked off nearly half the original list of 12.

"These kids are good. They're cleaning up the streets," said Howeida Mohammed, a 40-year-old woman attending one of the committee's literacy classes this week. "I don't want anything to do with the local council."

The Popular Committees may not survive because of the sheer strength of the old system Mubarak set up, said Alia Mossallam, a doctorate student documenting the Popular Committees and helping them network. But they'll be a breeding ground for a new generation of politicians, experienced in actually serving a community.

"We have never had governance from below," she said. "(The experience) may die down...but everything they have learned will stick with them."

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Op zondag 10 juli 2011 23:02 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Vandaag is er een zeer onsmakelijke video voor het eerst verschenen. Gefilmd op 28jan in Alexandri�. CSF truck walst over een demonstrant......inclusief aftermath......zeker niet voor de zwakke maag.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2011 23:21 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Komt ie:

Schokkende video, niet voor de zwakke maag!
http://amrellissy.com/vb/t26307.html#post57920

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Op maandag 11 juli 2011 00:20 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Er zijn een aantal agenten op borgtocht vrijgelaten ja.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2011 00:23 schreef johnnylove het volgende:

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Das minder. Maar heeft de regering te weinig bewijs, hebben ze lopen zingen, of nog de macht die SCAF heeft in het land?

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Op maandag 11 juli 2011 00:30 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Het bewijs is moeilijk rond te krijgen. Was het nou zelfverdediging of niet? Denk aan demonstranten die politiebureau's en overheidsgebouwen bestormden.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2011 00:35 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Het is ook niet terecht om pionnen op te laten draaien voor misdaden van het regime. Maar het regime zal zich niet zelf opofferen als ze niet gedwongen worden.

In feite worden de families van de martelaren ook "gebruikt" door de revolutie om de druk er op te houden.

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An Egyptian investigating judge ordered a former agriculture minister detained for questioning over accusations that he allowed the import of cancer-causing pesticides, the state news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

The agency said Youssef Wali, who served as agriculture minister under former President Hosni Mubarak from 1982 to 2004, was also suspected of squandering LE200 million (US$33.6 million) of state funds by selling a plot of land to businessman Hussein Salem for less than the market price.

MENA said Wali is accused of "bringing in 37 brands of pesticides that were proven to cause cancer". It said the chemicals had been banned from entering the country in 1996, but were allowed entry in 1998 under Wali until 2004.

Wali has denied the charges.

Prosecutors have been investigating business transactions of officials under Mubarak since mass protests forced him to resign on 11 February.

A prosecutor froze Wali's assets in April in connection with the sale of 100,000 feddans of land to Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal in a deal which Egyptian authorities suspected had also violated the law.

Salem, a close aide to Mubarak, was arrested in Spain last month on an international warrant, suspected of squandering public funds by selling gas to Israel below market prices.

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About a dozen police officers protested in front of the Interior Ministry on Sunday rejecting interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s announcement that officers accused of killing protesters in the 25 January revolution will be dismissed, calling it an illegal decision.

“We demand the respect of the judicial system because it is illegal that the general prosecution rejects a court decision only to calm the people,” said Ahmed Samir of the General Coalition of Police Officers, a group that advocates for police.

“Sharaf’s decision proves his ignorance of the law and his drifting behind anger waves from protesters.”

The officers presented demands to Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy, who promised to respond as soon as possible, according to Ahmed Rashad, who is responsible for the legal affairs of the coalition.

In a TV address on Saturday, Sharaf said police officers accused of shooting protesters during the 18-day revolution will be fired in response to demands raised by people in nationwide protests on Friday. Many are now taking part in open-ended sit-ins until the demands are met.

The police protesters said they support the 25 January revolution and the punishment of those responsible for killing protesters as long as it legal.

“Whoever is found guilty of killing revolutionaries has to be severely punished," said Rashad, "but any decision taken has to comply with the law.”

“People should show some sympathy with the low-ranking officers who were only obeying orders,” said police protester Mohamed Bassem.

With a sign reading “We want retribution from those who killed police officers," they defended officers who protected police stations and the Interior Ministry against attacks from protesters.

“Snipers were responsible for killing protesters, not police officers,” said an officer from Central Security, the Interior Ministry's crowd control force, who refused to provide his name.

“I was among the forces in Tahrir and I did not carry any live ammunition,” he said.

Shortly after the officers ended their meeting with Essawy, the minister stated that he will not implement any decision regarding the officers accused of killing protesters except according to the law, adding that Sharaf doesn’t have the jurisdiction to make any decision about these policemen.

According to official reports 846 died and more than 6000 were injured during the 18-day uprising that forced former President Hosni Mubarak to resign, while local rights groups estimate the number of people killed at about 1500.

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At about four in the morning on Monday, ‘security guards’ who maintain and protect Tahrir Square’s checkpoints caught a thief who had stolen someone’s laptop amongst other items. Earlier a drug dealer was also captured, drawing protesters' attention as he was marched off in the direction of the Mogamma. Since the citizen arrests took place, discussions among various groups of protesters have been ongoing as they grapple with possible ways of dealing with these criminal suspects.

Some argued that handing these individuals over to the military would be hypocritical, since the revolutionary forces are unanimous in their opposition of military trials for civilians, while others spoke of the futility of turning them over to the police who would inevitably release them back onto the streets.

The head of the popular committee that has been organising the square’s security spoke of having confiscated about 2,000 weapons and arresting tens of suspect individuals for thievery and smuggling weapons and drugs into Tahrir. He added that arrested individuals were photographed, providing an easy way of discovering any repeat offenders. The sit-in's security chief stressed that there had been several cases of suspects handed over to the interior ministry only to be released and redirected towards the Tahrir sit-in.

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As protesters at both Tahrir Square and in Suez prepare for escalation in the upcoming two days, the government is in a race against time to finalize decisions and decrees that will satisfy the public and meet protester demands.

The protesters at Tahrir Square are calling for a million man protest and general strike on Tuesday. Today there will be a rally heading from the working class Boulaq el Dakrour district in Giza to Tahrir Square. There will also be a rally from the State Council court building, led by workers of privatized companies, which will head to the square later this afternoon.

These are the first among many marches planned by the protesters and the popular committees to defend the revolution aimed at gaining support for the sit-in and convincing more people to join.

According to Ahmed Ezzat, the spokesman of the popular committees, the group and the protesters agreed that the protests should start from the areas of the people who would benefit most from fulfilled revolutionary demands.

Protests and sit-ins are still on in Suez especially after clashes between the protesters and the military police at Ain Sokhna.

For the first time, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf promised "massive" changes and reforms with a timeline yesterday. According to Sharaf’s promise to the revolutionary youth who met with him on Sunday, not less than 1,400 police officers, including police generals and majors, will be laid off by 15 July, including those accused of shooting the protesters. A reshuffle will include not less one third of the cabinet by 17 July and radical changes will be made in the state owned media. Whether in radio, television or newspapers, these changes will be applied and new leaderships for major, state owned media organizations will be appointed by 30 July.

The PM also promised that a new governor’s reshuffle will be announced by the end of July.

Sharaf promised the protesters’ delegation that if he fails to achieve this timeline he will resign from his position.

PM Sharaf is currently a holding a meeting with his cabinet.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2011 19:43 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Ben benieuwd naar de toespraak van Sharaf straks/vanavond.

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Egypt's latest crisis puts pressure on leadership

Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — The head of Egypt's security forces has defied orders by the prime minister to fire police officers accused of killing protesters during the nation's popular uprising, in a dispute illustrating the strains of a government facing escalating public pressure to bring former regime figures to justice.

Egyptians have again taken to the streets, furious over the failure to cleanse the tainted police and over a leadership they complain is botching an already chaotic transition to democracy. Protesters have camped out in main squares in Cairo, Suez and other cities since Friday, demanding the resignation of the interior minister who heads the police, the purging of former regime loyalists from the civil service and greater action to tackle economic woes.

The issue of justice for protesters slain during the 18-day uprising that led to Hosni Mubarak's Feb. 11 is the most explosive amid rising frustration with the handling of the political transition by the military generals who now lead the country.

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, who heads a caretaker civilian government, has found himself caught in the middle.

Over the weekend, seeking to calm street demonstrations, he called for Interior Minister Mansour el-Issawi to fire 400 police officers accused of killing protesters. Nearly 900 people were killed during the uprising.

But el-Issawi balked, saying summarily firing them would be illegal.

The dispute has put Sharaf's credibility on the line. He was brought into office by the military to the acclaim of activists who led the anti-Mubarak uprising who saw him as a pro-reform figure. Taking his post, Sharaf proclaimed that his legitimacy came from the "revolution." But the dispute underlined the growing complaints among protesters that Sharaf is took weak to carry out reforms, with many accusing the military and former regime figures in the powerful security forces of preventing him from action.

Sharaf said on his official Facebook page that he would make an important announcement later Monday, prompting speculation that he would reshuffle his Cabinet. However, he later announced that the changes would be made within a week. He did not specify whether el-Issawi would be among those removed or say what caused the delay.

Fueling the resentment in the streets is a deepening distrust of the ruling generals, whom activists accuse of a lack of transparency in directing the transition to democracy and of showing too much deference to Mubarak, allowing the 83-year-old former leader to remain in hospital at a Red Sea resort when he is under arrest and scheduled to stand trial next month.

The public is also growing impatient with high crime rates, unemployment and economic woes worsened by the post-revolution turmoil. The crisis has eaten into the country's already battered investment climate, with the benchmark stock index dropping almost 3 percent on Monday on concerns of mounting unrest.

The release on bail last week of seven police officers on trial for killing protesters in Suez sparked days of rioting in the canal city 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Cairo.

"We have all the evidence that prove police officers killed the protesters," said Ali el-Genadi, father of one of the slain protesters in Suez. "We are not against the law, but we are against the judges who implement the law."

Cleansing of the police force and the dismissal of el-Issawi top the list of demands made by tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets in Cairo and a string of other cities Friday in some of the largest demonstrations since Mubarak's ouster. A hard core of protesters have camped out in Cairo's central Tahrir Square since, blocking the major traffic intersection, vowing to stay until their demands are met. Larger protests have also been called for Tuesday.

Police officers contend their force is being unfairly maligned.

Ahmed Ragab, a spokesman for an association of police officers, said Sharaf's order for the officers' dismissal violated the law and unjustly equated officers who defended police stations against attacks by armed mobs during the uprising and snipers who shot protesters dead in cold blood from rooftops.

"We too demand retribution for the martyrs of the revolution," said Ragab, who says his association has the support of some 15,000 police officers, or about half of all the officer corps in the force. "Why is that no one is talking about the snipers?"

Justice for those killed during the protests is tangled into the deeper issue of reforming a police force that was widely despised during Mubarak's rule for human rights abuses and corruption. Police disappeared from the streets three days into the uprising in January following deadly clashes with protesters in Cairo and elsewhere in the country. That prompted a wave of looting, arson, jail breakouts and attacks on police stations around the nation.

Five months later, the police have yet to return, raising accusations that they are intentionally allowing chaos in retaliation for the revolution and in hopes of retaining their past power. Official figures show armed robberies surging to 208 in May from 36 in January and 145 murders in May compared to 44 in January. Media frequently tell of Egyptians trying to report car thefts and other crimes to police, only to be told at police stations to handle it themselves.

"Negligence by the police is a harrowing conspiracy," prominent activist and best-selling novelist Alaa al-Aswany wrote recently in Cairo's al-Masry al-Youm daily. "Policemen are standing by to watch and gloat."

Interior Minister el-Issawi has taken a more low-key approach to change. He is looking into retiring more than two dozen top police commanders, some of whom have been associated with the brutal suppression of the protests in January and February, according to Egypt's official Middle East News Agency.

It said those to be pensioned off include seven of el-Issawi's assistants and several current and former provincial security chiefs.

He has created offices for rights groups at the Interior Ministry to monitor police operations and has been urging police personnel to do away with the culture of abuse.

"If you respect citizens, they will respect you back," he told a recent graduation ceremony of policemen. "We get our wages from the taxes they pay."

The steps — which activists dismiss as too timid — so far have done little to soothe popular discontent with the police.

But some acknowledge that instilling a respect for human rights cannot be done quickly.

"The officer who is used to operate unchallenged, abusing motorists at police checkpoints, is not going to be a nice guy just like that," said Negad Borai, a prominent lawyer and rights activist. "It's an entrenched police culture that will take time to change."

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Facing public anger, Egypt PM to reshuffle Cabinet

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's prime minister says he will reshuffle his Cabinet within a week, but doesn't say which ministers he'll replace.

Monday's announcement by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf comes amid rising public anger over the slow pace of reform since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February.

Sharaf also called for swift trials of members of the security forces suspected in the killings of nearly 900 Egyptians during the anti-Mubarak uprising.

A Cabinet reshuffle would be Egypt's third since Mubarak's ouster. The country is being led by interim rulers who are to pave the way for fall elections.

Since the weekend, protest tent camps have sprung up in key Egypt cities, with demonstrators saying they won't leave until they see radical reforms.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's prime minister says he will reshuffle his Cabinet within a week, but doesn't say which ministers he'll replace.

Monday's announcement by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf comes amid rising public anger over the slow pace of reform since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February.

Sharaf also called for swift trials of members of the security forces suspected in the killings of nearly 900 Egyptians during the anti-Mubarak uprising.

A Cabinet reshuffle would be Egypt's fourth since Mubarak's ouster. The country is being led by interim rulers who are to pave the way for fall elections.

Since the weekend, protest tent camps have sprung up in key Egypt cities, with demonstrators saying they won't leave until they see radical reforms.

(This version CORRECTS APNewsNow. Corrects that it would be Egypt's third, not fourth Cabinet reshuffle since Mubarak's ouster)

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2011 13:18 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Statement van het leger vandaag:

بيان المجلس العسكري بشأن المستجدات الراهنة - 12 يوليو 2011

Krijg trillende benen van deze man.....

خطاب حسني مبارك 2 - كامل خطاب حسني مبارك 2 - كامل

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2011 13:18 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Statement van het leger vandaag:

بيان المجلس العسكري بشأن المستجدات الراهنة - 12 يوليو 2011

Krijg trillende benen van deze man.....

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2011 14:34 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Ruw samengevat:
Begint met standaard verhaaltje dat het leger achter de revolutie staat. Dat het leger er alles aan doet om de eisen van het volk in te willigen. Het leger zal de macht pas overdragen na de presidentsverkiezingen.

Het leger respecteert het recht op vrijheid van meningsuiting, demonstraties en stakingen. Deze mogen niet tegenstrijdig met de wet zijn. En ook niet met als doel het land lam te leggen. Wordt hier geen gehoor aan gegeven, dan zullen er strenge maatregelen genomen worden.

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'Nog steeds geen persvrijheid in Egypte'

(Novum/AP) - CA�RO - Vijf maanden na de val van president Hosni Mubarak is er nog altijd geen persvrijheid in Egypte. De militaire regering heeft zelfs het ministerie van informatie weer nieuw leven ingeblazen. Het ministerie geldt als een van de symbolen van Mubaraks dictatoriale regime.

"Het ministerie heeft een verleden als verlengstuk van het vroegere regime en is om die reden volstrekt ongeschikt om de mediasector te hervormen", zegt het Comit� ter Bescherming van Journalisten (CPJ) in een verklaring.

Het ministerie van informatie was een gehaat instituut ten tijde van Mubarak. Het werd gezien als diens propagandamachine. Na Mubaraks val op 11 februari werd het ministerie ontmanteld. Vorige week werd het echter door het huidige militaire bestuur nieuw leven ingeblazen en werd een nieuwe minister van informatie benoemd.

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Aanslag op gasdistributiestation Sina�
(Novum/AP) - EL-ARISH - In de Sina�-woestijn is dinsdagochtend een aanslag gepleegd op een gasdistributiestation. Het station hoort bij de pijpleiding waardoor aardgas van Egypte naar Isra�l en Jordani� wordt gepompt. Vorige week was de leiding ook het doelwit van een aanslag.


Het station stond in het stadje El-Arish, vijftig kilometer van de grens met Isra�l. Zeker vier gewapende mannen dwongen de bewakers te vertrekken en bliezen het station vervolgens op. Er deden zich geen persoonlijke ongelukken voor.

De gasleiding is vaker het doelwit van sabotage. Sinds de val van de Egyptische president Hosni Mubarak, in februari van dit jaar, is er nu vier keer een aanslag op de pijpleiding gepleegd. Tot dusverre zijn deze aanslagen niet opge�ist. In het verleden hebben in de Sina� wonende bedoe�enen de leiding aangevallen, maar ook islamisten die gekant zijn tegen het vredesverdrag met Isra�l worden gezien als verdachten.

De Isra�lische minister van infrastructuur Uzi Landau zei dat de aanslagen een bedreiging beginnen te vormen voor de Egyptisch-Isra�lische betrekkingen. "Dit was een anker, vanuit economische oogpunt misschien wel het belangrijkste element van onze vredesovereenkomst met Egypte, en het wordt langzaam, langzaam uitgehold", zei Landau.

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Verkiezingen Egypte uitgesteld, bijna 600 ontslagen bij politie

De militaire leiders van Egypte, de Opperste Raad der Strijdkrachten, hebben vandaag de parlementsverkiezingen uitgesteld. Deze zouden in september plaatsvinden, maar zijn nu met een maand of twee maanden uitgesteld. Dat meldde de Egyptische staatspersbureau.

Het uitstel van de verkiezingen is een tegemoetkoming aan een deel van de protestbeweging in het land dat had ge�ist dat de verkiezingen worden uitgesteld. Door het uitstel hebben nieuw gevormde politieke partijen meer tijd om zich voor te bereiden om zo beter de strijd te kunnen aangaan met partijen als de Moslimbroederschap.

Bijna zeshonderd hooggeplaatste politiemensen ontslagen

De Raad kondigde dinsdag al aan dat er een aantal regels wordt opgesteld voor het kiezen van de honderd parlementsleden die later dit jaar gaan werken aan een nieuwe grondwet. Met de nieuwe regels moet worden voorkomen dat bepaalde partijen hun stempel op het parlement en daarmee op de grondwet drukken.

In een ander gebaar naar de betogers heeft het Egyptische ministerie van binnenlandse zaken vandaag bijna zeshonderd hooggeplaatste politiemensen de laan uitgestuurd. Dat meldde de Egyptische staatstelevisie. De ontslagen zijn onderdeel van een zuivering van de impopulaire politiemacht.

Zesde dag van protesten op Tahrir-plein

De actievoerders willen dat de politiemacht wordt gezuiverd van aanhangers van Mubarak en agenten die betrokken waren bij de dood van bijna negenhonderd demonstranten. Volgens de staatstelevisie worden 37 politiemensen aangeklaagd voor de moord op betogers. In totaal krijgen 587 politiemensen hun ontslag, van wie 505 generaal-majoors en 82 brigadiers.

Vijf maanden na de revolutie, die een eind maakte aan het regime van president Hosni Mubarak, zijn de betogers terug op het Tahrirplein. Ze zijn gefrustreerd dat de revolutie is stilgevallen. De protestbeweging, die geen echte leiders kent en onderling verdeeld is, heeft nog een aantal eisen, waaronder een snelle berechting van leden van het regime van Mubarak en politieagenten.

Veel betogers vrezen dat het doorvoeren van hervormingen stil is komen te liggen. Ze hebben kritiek op de Opperste Raad voor de Strijdkrachten, die het land bestuurt. “De raad heeft bewezen dat hij samenwerkt met Mubarak”, aldus een van de betogers. “We willen een civiele raad, die is gekozen door de revolutionairen op het plein.”

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Op woensdag 13 juli 2011 12:29 schreef Machmoed het volgende:

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http://buitenland.nieuws.(...)rsvrijheid_in_egypte

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Op woensdag 13 juli 2011 19:48 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op woensdag 13 juli 2011 20:18 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Nou we kunnen niet ontkennen dat dat goed klinkt.
Laten we hopen dat die agenten een beetje zelfrespect hebben en geen onrust zullen veroorzaken.

Zaterdag deel 2 van de reshuffle.

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Ibrahim al-Sayyad, chief news room editor of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, said Thursday that state television will broadcast the trials of deposed President Hosni Mubarak and other symbols from his regime beginning next week, in accordance with established rules.

“We are prepared to cover Mubarak’s trial on 3 August, after the military council announced that it would be public,” Sayyad said. “And we will provide both live and recorded coverage.”

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Suez protesters who had been on a hunger strike in front of the governorate’s building were attacked by police in the early hours at the town’s police station on Tuesday, witnesses told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

The incident began when one of the protesters fainted at the sit-in and was taken to Suez General Hospital. An officer from the hospital’s police office had come to write a report on what had happened to the protester. According to one of the protesters, Mohamed al-Temsah, the officer verbally insulted the group and said that the unconscious protester would not be treated.

A verbal altercation ensued and Temsah contacted the governor of Suez, who told the group to come to the governorate building. There, he asked them to find out the name of the policeman. As the protesters walked back to the hospital to inquire as to the officer’s name, they found themselves beign followed by two military policemen and a man claiming to be a military officer, but later turned out to be a policeman as well. The three approached the group and told them that the officer at the hospital was upset and that they should try and make amends with him.

Then, according to Temsah, seven police officers showed up and took the group to the Suez police station, demanding recompense for their colleague.

“We were attacked in front of the police station by policemen and plainclothes officers. We were then pushed inside the station, where 30 thugs were waiting and proceeded to beat us. The military was stationed outside the station and did not intervene,” he said.

Temsah managed to flee and tried to call the governor, but was caught and had his phone and watch seized. Others also had their phones taken and some were burnt with cigarettes.

“They lined us up against the wall and one pulled out his pistol and cocked it. They threatened to kill us and that they would sexually assault us,” he remembered.

They were then locked up inside one of the cells and continued to be insulted, with policemen telling them, “You residents of Suez were talking about Mubarak and the police; we’ll show you.”

The protesters were eventually let out after the governor called the chief of the station. But even then they emerged with great difficulty, as those present did not want them to leave.

“It’s the lower-ranking policemen who cause all the trouble and commit these acts of violence,” Temsah said. “I will file lawsuits against them and I have witnesses to testify on my behalf about what happened.”

Al-Arbaeen Square is the main site of the sit-in in Suez, which is running in tandem with protests in Cairo and other cities and governorates. However, demonstrations are also taking place outside the governorate building and near the Suez Canal. The protests have called for the fulfillment of the revolution’s demands that the demonstrators feel have not yet been met.

The attack is especially sensitive as it took place in Suez, where police officers on trial for killing protesters were recently released on bail, leading to heightened protests in the city and further clashes with the police.

Abdel Rahman Mahfouz, a member of the Popular Committee for the Defense of the Revolution in Suez, told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Wednesday, “Until the stated demands are met, the sit-in will continue.”

This statement was echoed by his colleague Essam al-Masry, who said, “Nothing has been achieved up until now and we don’t know how those police officers were released.”

The Arbaeen Square sit-in took a new turn on Wednesday, when ambulance workers from Suez joined the sit-in over demands for better treatment and pay. A number of medics, assistant-medics and ambulance drivers congregated at the square, decrying the disparity in pay between them and that many of them had yet to be hired on permanent contracts.

The town had just endured a running gunfight the night before, unrelated to the sit-in but close to the square, as two families from the area clashed with street vendors in a battle that lasted through the night. Two people were allegedly killed in the clashes.

Protesters are also holding a sit-in in a garden near the canal, though they have made assurances that there will be no attempt to disrupt the ships passing through. The military maintains a major presence at the canal, and the garden where the protesters are is cordoned with barbed wire. In a gazebo in the garden, protesters have set up a memorial for the 25 January martyrs from Suez.

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Egyptische ministers stappen op

Premier Essam Sharaf van Egypte heeft het ontslag geaccepteerd van minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Mohammed el-Orabi en van diens collega van Handel en Industrie, Samir el-Sayyed. Dat is vandaag in Ca�ro meegedeeld.

Sharaf onderhandelt over een herschikking van het kabinet, die hij vorige week aankondigde. Betogers demonstreren maanden na het vertrek van oud-president Hosni Mubarak nog altijd tegen de regering. Ze vinden dat de beloofde hervormingen niet snel genoeg gaan.

Sharaf maakt naar verwachting vannmiddag nog de namen van het nieuwe kabinet bekend.

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Hosni Mubarak ligt in coma, zegt zijn advocaat

De voormalige Egyptische president Hosni Mubarak heeft een beroerte gehad en ligt in coma. Dat zegt zijn advocaat tegenover persbureau Reuters.

In februari vertrok de 83-jarige Mubarak als Egyptische president na aanhoudende protesten van zijn volk. Hij werd naderhand opgenomen in een ziekenhuis in Sharm el-Sheikh. Zijn advocaat liet vandaag weten dat hij erover ge�nformeerd was dat de gezondheid van Mubarak “plotseling erg verslechterd is en dat hij nu in coma ligt”. Hij zou een beroerte hebben gehad.

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Egyptian military head praises activist youth

Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — The head of Egypt's ruling military council on Saturday praised the youth who led the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in an apparent effort to diffuse growing tensions between activists and the army.

Many protesters have grown distrustful of the military rulers who assumed control of the country after Mubarak was forced to step down more than five months ago. Critics accuse the generals of dragging their feet in bringing former regime officials to trial and purging the government of Mubarak loyalists as well as trying civilians in military courts.

The standoff came to a head late Friday in Cairo when a large group of protesters marched toward the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to denounce what the purported beatings of demonstrators by military forces during another rally in the city of Alexandria.

The army quickly issued a statement denying the use of violence against protesters and accusing activists of trying to divide the country. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces urges the public to exercise caution and not to be drawn into this suspicious plot that aims to undermine Egypt's stability," the statement said in unusually strong language.

The head of the council, Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, tried to soften the tone in an address later Saturday on state TV. He called the youth activists "a great product of Egyptian soil, who belong to an ancient people, adopted noble principles, confirmed their nationalistic sense and realized their responsibility as Egypt's youth to progress and make history."

He also appealed for national unity.

"Holding together our internal front and keeping it strong is a national necessity, so we can face the challenges and difficulties in the nation's path, to realize where we are going and how to move toward a safe and secure future," Tantawi said.

His remarks, which were made during a speech commemorating the anniversary of the 1952 military coup that toppled Egypt's monarchy, came hours ahead of another planned rally outside the council's headquarters to demand speedier trials for ex-regime officials, the end of military trials for civilians, the resignation of the state prosecutor and a set date for the transition to civilian rule.

Thousands marched from Tahrir Square toward the ministry of Defense, across town, chanting against the council's delay in implementing their demands.

The military council has promised to hand over power to an elected civilian government within six months. Parliamentary elections are now set for October or November, followed by presidential elections, likely next year.

Activists frustrated with the slow pace of change have continued to protest, forcing a change to the interim government and a change in the leadership of the police force. A few hundred have been camped out in Tahrir Square since earlier this month to pressure the military to bring those accused of killing the protesters during the 18-day uprising to trial.

So far, only one low-ranking policeman has been charged in absentia for killing protesters. Nearly 900 were killed in the early days of the uprising.

In an unsually strongly worded statement released on its Facebook page, the council statement accused activists of seeking to drive a wedge between the people and the military. It singled out the April 6 movement, one of the largest groups behind the protests that forced Mubarak to step down on Feb. 11.

Activists quickly rebuffed the statement with one of their own, saying the army rejects all criticism of how it is ruling the country.

Mohammed Adel, an April 6 spokesman, said "defaming" the group is reminiscent of the language used by the previous regime against its opponents. "It is the army that is driving a wedge between it and the people by accusing others of treason," he said.

Protesters in Alexandria insisted the military used force against them at Friday's demonstration.

Nour al-Zorba, a protester, said they were first attacked by men wielding knives. Protesters chased those attackers away, but then soldiers began chasing them, detaining some and beating others to the ground, he said.

A few protesters managed to enter the military headquarters and tried to speak to the site's commander.

One woman, Amira Nabil, who went inside the headquarters said she was beaten and dragged by her feet, and punched in the stomach.

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Gewonden door onlusten Egypte

Meer dan 140 mensen zijn gewond geraakt toen zaterdag een grote demonstratie in de Egyptische hoofdstad Ca�ro ontaardde in massale vechtpartijen. Dat hebben ooggetuigen en bronnen bij de hulpdiensten gemeld.

De meeste gewonden vielen toen de betogers die een voortvarender aanpak van het democratiseringsproces eisen, door tegendemonstranten werden bekogeld met stenen en brandbommen. Leger en politie zetten traangas in en losten waarschuwingsschoten om de onlusten te bedwingen.

In Egypte kwam in februari na bijna dertig jaar een einde aan het regime van Hosni Mubarak. De autoritaire president trad af na wekenlange straatprotesten. Sindsdien bestuurt een raad van hoge militairen onder leiding van veldmaarschalk Hussein Tantawi het Noord-Afrikaanse land.

De militaire machthebbers hebben beloofd nog dit jaar vrije verkiezingen te houden en het pad te effenen voor een overgang naar een democratischer bestel. Veel mensen die begin dit jaar op de barricades stonden voor meer democratische hervormingen, zijn echter teleurgesteld over het tempo waarin de gewenste veranderingen gestalte krijgen.

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Egypt: too big for its boots

It is time to recognise that the Egyptian army's military, political and social role needs to be reduced, not expanded

The Egyptian army has hardly fired a shot in anger since the last of the country's four wars with Israel in 1973. Apart from a marginal role in the coalition which pushed Saddam's troops out of Kuwait in 1991, it has not done anything for a generation which could be called military in any strict sense of the word. It might have played a part, possibly even a leading part, in the intervention in Libya, but, perhaps wisely, the generals in Cairo decided that trying to manage one revolution was enough.

Yet the armed forces account for a quarter of Egyptian government expenditure, run industries and farms and hotels, and are the beneficiaries of huge amounts of American aid. Now that the country is on the way to democratic rule, there would seem to be a powerful case for cutting the army's numbers, costs, perquisites, and privileges. But reports from Cairo suggest that some of the generals are angling for constitutional provisions that will enshrine the military's authority in society, protect its budget, and assign it a formal right of intervention in political affairs. This is a position akin to that which the Turkish armed forces arrogated to themselves in the past and from which both civilian and military institutions in that country are still trying to painfully extricate themselves today.

The army did of course perform the signal service of easing Hosni Mubarak from power. That was an intervention of the first importance, and might be regarded as earning it the right to intervene again in the future. Those in Egypt who fear an Islamist takeover may favour the kind of military protection of the secular state on which the Turkish army prided itself. Yet the Egyptian armed forces acted without any specific constitutional mandate in the spring. Why should they require one now to deal with some notional threat in the future? The problem with any special arrangements for the armed forces is that they would tend to reinforce the unnatural prominence of the officer corps in a country which has been at peace for decades. Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak all in turn trimmed the military's direct political role, but the army's share of national resources and its economic holdings nevertheless grew and grew.

These included the building up of an arms industry, and a range of other enterprises which have a mixed record but which would not in a European country be regarded as in the military ambit at all. They also include infrastructure projects which have helped development, and literacy and vocational programmes for conscripts which have had a positive effect. But the time has surely come to recognise that the Egyptian army's military, political and social role needs to be reduced, not expanded.

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Op maandag 25 juli 2011 12:33 schreef rubje het volgende:
Dus samengevat kunnen wij ervan uitgaan dat de rust voorlopig in Egypte niet zal wederkeren?
Dat is dan lekker voor potentiele investeerders en andere zakelijke beslommeringen die voor rust en stabiliteit op economisch gebied moeten zorgen....

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29 July protests finally named 'The Popular Will and Unity Friday'

After weeks of disagreement, no less than 26 parties, movements and groups, including Islamists, leftists and liberals, have reached a set of demands for the upcoming Friday July 29th protests, which will be named 'The Popular Will and Unity Friday'. The agreement was reached yesterday after negotiations between the different political groups, parties and movements. The negotiations were held at Al Shorouk newspaper's Cairo offices with the help of publisher Ibrahim El-Moallam and Rabab El-Mahdy, who both spoke today in a press conference this afternoon about the demands of the political powers participating in the protest.

The demands of the protesters included: Ending military trials for civilians, the re-trial of those prosecuted in military trials, speeding up the trials of protester killers, assigning exclusive courts to ensure quick and just trials of former regime icons, a minimum and maximum limit for wages and a speedy implementation of the treachery act.

All demands that had caused rifts among the political forces, such as the constitution or the elections first debate and the supra-constitutional principles, were sidelined completely.

Next Friday's protests will feature a committee representing all the parties, movements and groups participating in the protest. Unlike previous protests, there will be no single podium for a single group; all the podiums will represent all the political movements from liberals and leftists to Islamists. There will be a united coordination between the different groups to secure the square.

In related news, the martyrs’ families at Tahrir square also re-issued a statement they had released last Friday, but it was generally ignored by mainstream media. In the statement, the martyrs’ families make it clear that they will continue their own sit in until their rights are restored. The statement outlined seven demands, including: The arrest of officers accused of killing martyrs in order to prevent them from influencing witnesses (as well as tampering with evidence and blackmailing both the families and witnesses), speedily referring the remaining killing of protesters cases to criminal courts and setting up teams of credible prosecutors to investigate the cases.

The families also demanded that the ministry of interior issue an official statement, to the Egyptian people generally and the martyrs’ families specifically, recognizing the protesters as martyrs not thugs, setting up a permanent committee comprised of the martyrs families, their lawyers and members of the Cabinet and general prosecution to facilitate overcoming the obstacles facing the trials, and to broadcast the trials live on TV without judicial permission. The families also demanded the martyrs be honored, in equal standing with war martyrs, and the dismissal of the minister of interior and the general prosecutor.

The martyrs' families are extremely angry with those claiming that they are using the martyrs for monetary gain, insisting that money is the last thing they are thinking about and that if it were about the money they would have accepted the offers from the accused police officers to drop the lawsuits. One of member of the martyrs’ families, Mr. Magdy, spoke at the press conference about how he and his family were being blackmailed by the police officer that killed his brother.

Mr. Magdy spoke about how ministry of interior and ministry of justice officials made it clear to his family that they cannot suspend the officers accused of killing protesters, and how they ought to seek their own justice, if the judiciary, which they criticized and called corrupt, was unable to help them.

There are no less than 500 families participating in the current sit in at Tahrir square, taking shifts. They have no intention of ending their sit in any time soon.

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Op donderdag 28 juli 2011 18:28 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Merk ook dat veel mensen de demonstranten op het plein zat zijn.
Sta elke dag in de file door al die omleidingen......

Hopelijk verloopt morgen rustig en zonder problemen.

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An army officer and two civilians were shot dead in clashes between an armed gang and Egyptian army and police in the north Sinai town of Arish on Friday, security sources said.

About a hundred armed men rode through Arish on motorcycles and vehicles waving flags with Islamic slogans and firing in the air, terrifying the local population, Sinai security sources said.

The gang then attacked a police station, engaging in a shootout with Egyptian police and army that left one army officer dead. A 70-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy who were caught up in the shooting died from bullet wounds.

Another army officer and 11 security guards were wounded in the attack and taken to an army hospital for treatment, MENA state news agency.

Before reaching the police station, the attackers had camped at a main square in the city, raising black flags. They destroyed a statue of former President Anwar al-Sadat and fired shots in the air. A 12-year-old boy was wounded because of the firing.

Following the police station attack, the perpetrators continued to roam the city, firing at street lights in a quest to darken the area, according to witnesses.

A security source told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the military is sending special forces to secure the area.

The identity of the attackers was not known.

Witnesses said the attackers, many of whom wore masks, did not seem to be from the area as they lost their way several times before reaching the police station.

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Op zaterdag 30 juli 2011 11:17 schreef paddy het volgende:
Maar wat is er nu wel veranderd daar? En is er sl iets meer bekend oer die vrije verkiezingen? Het is onmogelijk om binnen een aantal maanden de boel overhoop te gooien voor een regering maar merken de mensen al iets van veranderingen?

En welke veranderingen willen de mensen precies zien binnen korte tijd?

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The head of the North Sinai security forces said they arrested 15 in total as suspects in the attack on the Arish police station, ten of which are Palestinian.

He added that those arrested are currently undergoing investigations.

Three of the ten arrested Palestinians are wounded and are currently in Arish hospital. The three are the 19-year-old Yousef Omar Said, 24-year-old Bassem Mohamed Said and 18-year-old Alaa Mohamed El-Masry.

Unknown gunmen attacked a police station in Arish on Friday night. Clashes left five dead, including one police officer and one army officer. Tens have also been injured.

El-Masry had stated that security has reason to believe that those responsible for the Arish police station attack, 50km from Israel, are the same as those responsible for attacking the gas pipeline to Israel on Saturday.

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Op donderdag 28 juli 2011 19:01 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Ben je ook in Egypte?

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Egyptische leger verjaagt betogers Tahrir-plein met tanks

Het Egyptische leger is begonnen met het schoonvegen van het Tahrir-plein in de hoofdstad Kairo, waar enkele maanden geleden het zwaartepunt van de anti-regeringsbetogingen lag. Er wordt op dit moment geschoten op het plein. Dit meldt Al Jazeera.

Het leger heeft tanks ingezet om de betogers die zich in grote getalen op het plein bevinden uit elkaar te drijven.

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Ex-minister of interior denies knowledge of instructions to destroy state security files

As investigations continue into the former State Security apparatus, the ex-minister of interior, Mahmoud Wagdy, denied any knowledge that instructions were given to destroy some of the State Security files. Wagdy confirmed that he was not aware that instructions were given by former head of State Security Hassan Abdelrahman to destroy secret files.

Abdelrahman also denied having orally instructed the destruction of the secret files, saying that he had only published a periodical demanding this.

The police officers accused of destroying the files will be questioned over the statements of both Abdelrahman and Wagdy.

Investigations have been ongoing after State Security buildings were set on fire. Several state security officers and personnel were accused of setting the buildings on fire and shredding documents to bury evidence of wrong-doing.

The ongoing investigations are also looking into whether the documents actually contained any evidence of state security police violations.

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Mubarak receives summons to attend court in Cairo

Deposed President Hosni Mubarak has been summonsed to stand trial in Cairo on Wednesday, together with his sons Alaa and Gamal, fugitive business tycoon Hussein Salem, and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his aides.

The defendants are accused of killing demonstrators during the revolution, profiteering and exporting gas to Israel at prices lower than international market rates.

Sources said Mubarak consulted with his lawyer before acknowledging receipt of the court summons.

“We’ll fly Mubarak on a military aircraft from Sharm el-Sheikh to the courtroom in Cairo,” said Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy.

On Monday, Essawy inspected the courtroom at the Police Academy in New Cairo, where the trial is to take place. “The plane will land on the academy’s heliport,” he said.

Sources at the Arab Contractors, the company that has constructed the steel cage in which the defendents are to be held during the court proceedings, said they put a bed inside it so that Mubarak can lie down during the trial.

Judge Ahmed Fahmy Refaat called on all parties attending the trial to abide by the rules of order so as to hold the trial in a “civilized” manner. “This will help expedite the verdict,” he said.

Sources said the main witness in the case will be former chief of intelligence Omar Suleiman.

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Op woensdag 3 augustus 2011 01:51 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Live uitzending om 9 uur 's ochtends. 3 Augustus 2011.

http://nile.eg/?p=live

De berechting van Mubarak en zijn zonen + Adly en 6 assistenten. Dit is de eerste keer dat wij de Mubaraks in het openbaar zien sinds de revolutie.

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Op woensdag 3 augustus 2011 08:36 schreef RobertoCarlos het volgende:

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Hoe is het met zijn gezondheid dan? Hij was toch ernstig ziek?

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Op woensdag 3 augustus 2011 08:40 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Bullshit. Hij heeft gewoon de ex-dictator ziekte. De minister van gezondheid heeft gezegd dat hij gezond en stabiel is. Het enige waar hij aan lijdt is depressie.

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Op woensdag 3 augustus 2011 17:31 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Honden

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Isra�lisch parlementslid bood Mubarak asiel aan

Laatste update: 3 augustus 2011 13:07 info
JERUZALEM - De Isra�lische parlementari�r Binyamin Ben-Eliezer heeft de Egyptische ex-president Hosni Mubarak asiel in Isra�l aangeboden. Mubarak sloeg het aanbod af 'omdat hij een patriot is', aldus Ben-Eliezer.


Foto: AFP
Volgens Ben-Eliezer, die persoonlijk bevriend is met Mubarak, heeft hij het aanbod enkele maanden geleden gedaan tijdens de grootschalige demonstraties tegen het regime van Mubarak.
Een woordvoerder van de Isra�lische regering kon niet zeggen of Ben-Eliezer zijn initiatief met de regering had besproken.
Het proces tegen Mubarak is woensdag van start gegaan in de Egyptische hoofdstad Ca�ro. Hij staat terecht wegens het opdracht geven tot het doden van betogers tijdens de protesten tegen zijn bewind en wegens corruptie.

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Op woensdag 3 augustus 2011 18:57 schreef RobertoCarlos het volgende:

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Ben jij zelf ook Egyptisch?

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Op donderdag 4 augustus 2011 03:14 schreef rakotto het volgende:

Mubarak denies all charges against him

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Op donderdag 4 augustus 2011 11:56 schreef zuiderbuur het volgende:

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Als je deze beelden ziet, en je naam is Gaddafi, Assad of Bashir, dan ga je ook niet zo snel aan aftreden denken.

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Op donderdag 4 augustus 2011 12:26 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Hij ziet er prima uit vind ik. Misschien zie je dat niet zo goed in deze video, maar tijdens het hele proces zat gewoon neus te peuteren en was ie aan het chillen.

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Op donderdag 4 augustus 2011 12:29 schreef Cobra4 het volgende:

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Hij heeft vast de Duitse "Schwalbe cursus" gevolgd.

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Mubarak's lawyer: Tantawi involved in cutting telecommunications services

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi had a hand in cutting off internet and cell phone service during the revolution, said Hosni Mubarak, the former president's lawyer Mohamed Abdel Wahab alleged on Friday. The military responded by quickly denying the allegations.

On 28 May, a court ruled that Mubarak, former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly be fined US$90,000 for shutting down telecommunication services during the revolution and thus causing damage to the economy.

Abdel Wahab said on Thursday that Mubarak would appeal against the ruling.

The decision to cut telecommunications was taken by a board of officials that included Tantawi himself, without Mubarak's prior consultation, Abdel Wahab claimed Mubarak told him.
In a statement issued on Friday evening a military source asked people to keep the military out of these "altercations" and said that the armed forces sided with the protesters since the beginning of the revolution.
A military source told AFP that Mubarak believed the armed forces failed him when he was the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, and that he is just "settling the score" with the military.

Mubarak is currently being tried on charges of corruption and inciting the killing of peaceful protesters. On Wednesday, the first day of the trial, he asked that Tantawi be called to testify.

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Former NDP leader: Mubarak threatened to shoot protesters

The former secretary general of the dissolved National Democratic Party, Hossam Badrawy, has revealed some details of his meetings with Hosni Mubarak before the latter resigned from the presidency.

In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm Chief Editor Magdi al-Gallad on Dream TV, Badrawy said Mubarak told him that “Republican Guards forces will shoot protesters” if they gathered in front of the presidential palace.

Badrawy added that he played a role in persuading Mubarak to step down, and that at that time he was in communication with all political players and outlined his political view to Mubarak.

Badrawy said he had spoken to Omar Suleiman, then intelligence chief, and Suleiman asked him to express his vision directly to the president.

Badrawy said he was prevented from entering the palace after telling Mubarak it was necessary for him to step down. He said he saw several figures from the former regime but was not sure who exactly denied him access.

He said he believed Mubarak’s resignation would ease tension, as the revolutionaries deserved to see their ambitions fulfilled and the nation needed a legitimate transformation in accordance with the Constitution.

Asked if Mubarak was convinced he had to leave power, Badrawy answered that Mubarak was understanding but his advisers were giving him false reports about the situation in Egypt. He said that he told Mubarak: “The advisers who dragged you into this cannot get you out of it. You have to listen to the voice of reason away from this circle of advisers.”

“The president received incorrect information about the numbers of protesters,” Badrawy went on. “I made it clearer that this was not a revolution carried out by hungry people or thugs.” He said he told Mubarak it was a group of young people trying to express their views in a better way than former generations, and that the uprising demanded freedom and dignity.

Asked why Mubarak’s decision to bow out came late, Badrawy said there are details that he cannot currently reveal. However, he said certain figures were clearly opposed to the decision. He said he could not give an accurate list of names, but that it may include Gamal Mubarak, former Chief of Presidential Staff Zakariya Azmy, former Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif and former Minister of Information Anas al-Fiqqi.

He added that on Mubarak's request he phoned former Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour to tell him he needed to introduce amendments to the Constitution, but Sorour seemed tense and asked him to call the head of the Court of Cassation.

Sorour then called the presidential palace and this was when Badrawy was asked to leave.

Badrawy said he thought he could either go to the media to say what happened, or carry on with his efforts for the revolution to achieve its goals, which is the path he chose to take.

A prominent member of the NDP, Badrawy was appointed its secretary general on 5 February in what seemed to be an attempt to cast the party in a better light. However, Badrawy resigned from the party soon after his appointment.

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 12:31 schreef RobertoCarlos het volgende:
Waar heeft het leger eigenlijk pas zo laat ingegrepen? Ze hebben pas ingegrepen ruim nadat de milities van Mubarak tegen het volk begonnen te vechten...

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 14:25 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Leger van Egypte is 1 grote grap en zet de belangen van de Egyptenaren niet op 1 maar hun eigen belang: groot en machtig blijven.

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 13:41 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Leger heeft pas laat ingegrepen nadat er geen politie meer op straat was en natuurlijk om te kijken of het regime zou blijven of niet.

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 14:27 schreef RobertoCarlos het volgende:

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Maar op een gegeven moment grepen ze wel in en zetten ze Mubarak af. Enig idee waarom toen wel?

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 14:48 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Het was duidelijk dat Mobarak met steun van het leger regeerde. Zodra het leger besloot de lijn Mobarak door te knippen wat het met hem over. Het leger wist heel goed dat Mobarak's tijd (algemeen gehaat) meer dan over was en de Egyptenaren die straat op gingen alleen zijn aftreden zouden accepteren. Zodoende werd Mobarak eigenlijk door het leger (uit pragmatische redenen van het leger zelf) afgezet. Dan wel op subtiele wijze. Het leger "zou niet ingrijpen en neutraal toekijken". Toen was het al over, en kwestie van tijd. Politie van Mobarak was veel te klein om die duizenden Egyptenaren op straat echt weer hun huizen in te krijgen. Zie Syrie: daar is ook alleen het leger in staat het te proberen en zelfs dat lukt niet al 5 maanden. Politiemacht die enigzins loyaal was aan Mobarak's orders konden niets beginnen. Op een gegeven moment werd ook de druk van Amerika (goede banden met hoge officieren in Egyptische leger, al jaren) en allerlei landen groot op Mobarak. En zodoende werd hij uiteindelijk (gedwongen) helemaal en direct af te treden. Nadat hij al eerder besefte dat hij niets kon beginnen omdat het leger afstand van hem nam en zijn bevelen niet meer opvolgde.

Nu is het leger gewoon de baas, zoals het al eerder was. Want de echte power lag bij hen, en niet Mobarak. En het leger zal gewoon een stabiele partner zoeken uit alle politieke partijen om Egypte weer rustig mee te kunnen krijgen, regeren en eigen positie (steun verlenen aan die partij) veilig te stellen. Niet voor niets dat de Moslimbroederschap en het leger dicht bij elkaar liggen, uit pragmatische redenen. Leger zoekt stabiele partner in politiek die Egypte stabiliteit kan brengen. En Moslimbroederschap (of elke andere partij) weet dat het leger pleasen nodig is om aan de macht te blijven omdat ze de belangrijkste factor zijn in het land. In huidige Egypte is Moslimbroederschap zeer goed georganiseerd, hebben ervaring in politiek als oppositie, zijn niet zo geschift als de salafisten die 1400 jaar terug willen gaan en kunnen rekenen op aanzienlijke steun en sympathie. Zeker vergeleken bij de andere dodo's die totaal onbekend zijn of men eigenlijk niets van weet. Interessantste partner dus voor het leger om een pact mee te sluiten.

Voor de Egyptenaar op straat betekent dat overigens niet dat het "Mobarak tijdperk beter was". Er zijn wel meer individuele vrijheden tot stand gekomen na de val van Mobarak. Iets meer zuurstof, minder strakke repressie. Maar het land kent onzekerheid over de toekomst en hoe de zaken nou echt in elkaar zitten, wie trekt aan welke touwtjes etc. Groot toneelstuk allemaal, ook de "berechting" van Mobarak.

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Op zaterdag 6 augustus 2011 19:09 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
Neemt niet weg dat ik denk dat de MB door falen van andere partijen gewoon verhoudingsgewijs de meeste stemmen zal krijgen. Dus in vergelijking tot andere partijen. Ookal zijn er dan van alle stemmers meer tegen de MB betekent dat nog niet dat hun invloed in het parlement daardoor ook automatisch minder wordt. Daarvoor moeten de andere partijen namelijk eerst floreren, en dat gebeurt niet. De andere partijen in Egypte, van wat ik meekrijg, kunnen hun standpunten helemaal niet aan de man brengen onder gewone mensen. Ook de liberalere partijen hebben dit probleem om in het vacu�m wat nu in ontstaan hun stem duidelijk te maken en vooral onder de simpele mensen.

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Deputy PM proclaims civil state, pluralism in draft constitutional document

Ali Selmy, deputy prime minister for political affairs, in a meeting on Friday, presented a document entitled “Basic Constitutional Principles” to a number of Egyptian political parties, seeking their views on the document's contents.

The Wafd Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and the Nour Party were shown the document, which contains suggested basic principles, rights and general freedoms to be included in the future Egyptian constitution.

Al-Masry Al-Youm has obtained a version of the document, whose abridged version reads as follows:

Basic Principles:

The Arab Republic of Egypt is a civil democratic state based on citizenship and the rule of law, and respects pluralism, and guarantees freedom, justice, and equality, and provides opportunities to all citizens without discrimination. The Egyptian people are part of the Arab nation, and work for achieving its comprehensive unity.
Islam is the state religion, the Arabic language is its official language, and Islamic Sharia is the primary source of legislation. Non-Muslims resort to their own laws in regards to their personal issues and religious affairs.
Sovereignty is given to the people alone, and they are the source of authority, which they exercise through referendums and fair elections…
The political system for the democratic republic is based on balance of power between various branches of government and the peaceful transfer of power, and the multiplicity of political parties and their establishment by notification…
The national economy is based on comprehensive and sustainable development, which aims to achieve social well-being and fulfill citizens’ most basic needs, promote investment, protect free competition, prevent harmful monopolistic practices, protect the consumer, and guarantee that the benefits of economic growth are fairly distributed to the citizens. The state commits to protecting public property under its supervision, along with its wealth, national resources, lands, and national heritage, in both the material and moral sense…
The state alone may establish the armed forces, which is the people’s property, and whose role is to protect the country’s security and independence, along with its unity and sovereignty over all its land. It is forbidden for any federation, group, or party to create military formations or anything resembling them.
Rights and General Freedoms:

Human dignity is every person’s genuine right, and all Egyptian citizens are free and equal before the law in rights and freedoms and general obligations. Discrimination among them due to sex, origin, language, religion, creeds, wealth, social status, political views, or disabilities or anything of that sort is forbidden.
The state guarantees freedom of belief, worship, and religious slogans and protects the role of worship.
Egyptian nationality is a genuine right of all citizens and stripping citizenship or exiling any Egyptian from his country or preventing him from returning is forbidden, except in the case of a justified judicial ruling.
Freedom of conscience, expression and the media are guaranteed, so long as they do not violate the sanctity of individuals’ private lives, the rights of others, and the fundamentals of Egyptian society. Sabotaging the media, or censoring it or its sources, is forbidden, except as a result of a justified judicial decision, and for a limited period.
Every human being has the right to uncover, transfer, and publish information and participate in cultural and artistic life in all its forms. The state guarantees the freedom of academics, scientific research, imagination, and innovation, and guarantees the independence of universities and scientific research centers.
Every human has the right to enjoy the sanctity of his private life, correspondence, telephone conversations and electronic messages and other forms of communication. Arresting, searching, detaining, confining him, or restricting his personal freedom is forbidden, except with prior judicial order… Except in cases of crimes pertaining to the armed forces, civilians may not be tried in front of any exceptional or military court.
Private property is protected, except in case of judicial ruling and in exchange for fair compensation…
The right to work is guaranteed. The state strives to provide work opportunities to every citizen with the condition of fairness without discrimination, and commits itself to setting a minimum wage to guarantee the citizen human dignity and an appropriate standard of living. Every citizen has the right to assume a public post as long as he is qualified for the position.
Every citizen has the right to a secure life, a pollution-free environment, proper nutrition, habitation, healthcare, exercise, as well as insurance against unemployment, sickness and old-age in accordance with the requirements of justice and social solidarity.
The citizen has a right to an education, and the state commits to providing educational opportunities in its educational institutions for free …
The citizen has the right to set up syndicates, unions, groups, and civil foundations, and they have the right to assemble and demonstrate peacefully without prejudicing the rights of others or the basic rights, principles, or freedoms written in this document.