Showdown in Gurna

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Via the Arabist:

On Tuesday 25 November at 11am, the authorities, without warning, cut off electricity to the inhabitants of the hills of Gurna and removed supply cables. The families – men, women, CHILDREN – who were unable to come to an agreement for their relocation are therefore forced to use candles for lighting (as petrol for lamps is unavailable), even though these villagers had been paying their electricity bills.
Only archeologists and tourism sites continue to receive electricity.
The inhabitants have the feeling of living in Gaza rather than Egypt. They went to the hospital to begin a hunger strike but were refused entry.

1 Dec: Solidarity protest

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The National Forces have called for a protest Monday 1 December, 6pm, in front of Cairo’s Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the five victimized Ghazl el-Mahalla workers, the detained Muslim Brothers, incarcerated bloggers and the citizens of Sinai, and to denounce the police killings in Samalut, Ayyat, Assiut, and Aswan.