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Friday
02Jan2009

Crackdown on pro-Gaza protestors

Please follow my Jaikus, Per's and the Gaza Channel...

UPDATE: Here's a video, by el-Badeel's Omar Said, of a number of protestors, who managed to re-assemble in Klot Beik Street, downtown Cairo, following the rounding up of hundreds from Ramses Sq...


Pro-Gaza Protest مظاهرة تضامن مع غزة from El-Badeel البديل on Vimeo.

I'm at the office, gathering news from our correspondents in the streets... Most of our photographers have been assaulted today, and had their memory cards confiscated.. Some rushed back to the office, and got new memory cards and are now back in the streets... We are also receiving news of a renewed crackdown in Alexandria...

The day is not over yet... Extensive coverage with photos and field reports from our correspondents in Cairo and the provinces will be available in tomorrow's issue of el-Badeel... Stay tuned...

UPDATE: We are receiving tons of pix at el-Badeel of the clashes that took place today in Ramses.. Here is one of them, taken by Nasser Nouri...

Police plainclothes thugs assault pro-Gaza protestors بلطجية الشرطة تهاجم المتظاهرين في رمسيس

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