Year: 2007

Protests roundup

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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.

Egypt’s prosecutor orders police officers arrested after man plunges to death from balcony

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From AP:

Egypt’s prosecutor general on Wednesday ordered the arrest of three police officers on charges of murder for their involvement in the death of a man who died after plunging from a four-story balcony, a police official said.
Nasser Sadiq Gadallah’s family said he was thrown to his death by a group of police officers who burst into his apartment early Tuesday morning, but police said he fell while trying to leap from one balcony to another.
Along with the three officers ordered arrested, four other officers also were being investigated, said the police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Gadallah’s family alleges that police broke into the apartment and demanded he withdraw a complaint 39-year-old plumber had filed against one of their colleagues for stealing money from him about week before. When he refused, they threw him off the balcony, the family said Wednesday.