I received news that Qale’t el-Kabsh slum residents are demonstrating now in front of the Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo.
UPDATE: I phoned an activist who’s present now at the protest. She says more than 200 persons are demonstrating, after they were told unofficially by the Prosecutor that he will not pursue the case, filed by the residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights, to investigate the process by which the local municipality and the Cairo Governorate authorities manipulated the compensations for the burnt down houses and those demolished. “There are dozens who are still sleeping in the street, waiting for flats,” the activist said. I could hear some of the chants over the phone: “Suzan (Mubarak)! Say the truth! Do we have flats or not?!”
“The Government (officials) are thieves and looters!”
There were also a chant about Gamal Mubarak, but neither I nor the activist on the phone could hear it properly.
For previous postings and videos of the Qale’t el-Kabsh slum protests, check this dossier.
i passed by them last night and i could see their banners , but i dont think these are kalet el kabsh residents, the residents as far as i know did receive flats
No actually they were from Qale’t el-Kabsh, as not all the residents of the slum received their flats, believe it or not!