There was a stormy meeting yesterday at the Photographers’ Association, after which the senior photographers decided to postpone the anti-police brutality protest planned on Sunday.

General Hamdi Abdel Kareem, the Interior Ministry’s PR Department Director contacted the heads of the association and offered to “negotiate and have a dialogue,” according to a source present in the meeting. The association heads accepted, and decided not to sponsor the protest.

There were divisions in the meeting however, with some of the younger photographers angrily denouncing this move, and accusing the Interior Ministry of maneuvering and killing time.

It’s not clear up till now whether some will still go ahead with the protest on Sunday or not.