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Thursday
Feb032011

Crack-down

By AuthorUrsula Lindsey |

Journalists out on the street getting attacked by mobs, threatened, and arrested. Members of the Nadim Center and the Hesham Mubarak Law Center reportedly taken by military police. 

Adhaf Soueif sent this message:

"Good friend just saw 8 to 12 people being dragged out of No 1 Souq el-Tawfikiyyah St and bundled into a civilian micro-bus while a military police vehicle waited nearby. The people were being beaten and the street had been told they were "Iranian and Hamas agents come to destabilise Egypt" so the street was chanting against them.  No 1 Souq el-Tawfikiyyah St is the home of the offices of The Hisham Mubarak Legal Aid Centre, The Centre for Social and Economic Rights and The 6th April Youth.

And, btw, my brother-in-law, the lawyer Ahmad Seif is the Hisham Mubarak Legal Aid Centre.

Please get word out o as many news outlets as you can".

Ahdaf at 15:00 Cairo time

DateFebruary 3, 2011 at 4:06 PM Comments Off Reference1 Reference

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    Response: The Tahrir Show
    at Foreign Policy Public Health Blog on Feb 3, 2011 at 9:00 PM
    Greetings from the center of the world. I'm in Cairo, Eygpt, where thousands of protesters remain

Reader Comments (1)

Egyptian friends, can I ask a question? Are you managing to create any organization within Tahrir or in some of the neighborhoods? Usually, revolutions at some point begin to form people's committees, to divide the responsibilities and make it easier to confront the regime. Have you made any attempts to rationalize the struggle?

I admire your courage and pray for your success!

Feb 3, 2011 at 9:05 PM | Unregistered CommenterOutside supporter
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