Kefaya activists mobilized around 300 protesters yesterday in Assiut University’s faculty of law, where they staged a sit-in for two hours, protesting Mubarak’s dictatorial constitutional amendments.
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Judges reject Mubarak’s referendum
From Al-Jazeera:
Egypt’s judges have vowed to boycott the supervision of future polls after rejecting the results of a referendum that approved a series of changes to the constitution.
“The judges wash their hands off the referendum results,” Ahmad Sabr, a spokesman for the body that represents the country’s judges, said on Tuesday.
“We will no longer be a fig leaf to cover something shameful.”
The changes, which will help the government exclude religious parties from the political system, were backed by 75.9 per cent of people who voted but human rights groups estimated that turnout was less than 10 per cent.
The Egyptian justice ministry said 27.1 per cent of registered voters took part.
Downtown Cairo under police siege
Check out Al-Masry Al-Youm’s report on how Cairo has come under siege over the past couple of days, with police deployed in all major streets and square, searching citizens, closing down coffee shops, banning people from sitting in public gardens, putting up banners supportive of the amendments, and forcing civil servants not to boycott the vote…