Tuesday, 7 August:
Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting that 7,000 residents from the Nasr slum, in Maadi took blocked the highroad protesting drinking water shortages. The citizens were carrying empty plastic containers. They were dispersed by the police which threatened to use live ammunition.
In the evening, journalists marked the victims of torture by standing in silence at the Press Syndicate.
While in Tanta, 200 farmers protested demanding the govt fulfilled its promises of supplying them with fertilizers.