Photographer Amr Abdallah managed to take some photos of the strike by drivers, bus clerks, and maintenance workers of the Public Transportation Authorities in Nasr City on Wednesday.
Amr was not allowed into the station, which was under the police siege. He managed to meet up with some of the strikers’ colleagues outside.
Who says Mubarak’s constitutional amendments are dictatorial and do not benefit the people?!
Here’s an Egyptian family who benefited a lot from the amendments. They used one of the banners put up by the NDP hypocrites in support of the amendments, as a roof for their boat, where they live and work.
Photos by Amr Abdallah.
Around that time a year ago, Kefaya activists occupied Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street, in solidarity with the Egyptian judges fighting for their independence from Mubarak’s executive authorities. The occupation was smashed by the Central Security Forces troops, which descended on downtown. For weeks to follow, thousands of Muslim Brothers and leftist activists were to stage demonstrations, only to be met with the regime’s iron-fist repression.
Photographer and friend Nasser Nouri, together with an army of professional photographers, were unknown soldiers in this battle, by braving with their cameras in the streets, snapping shots of police brutality, street clashes, exposing the Gestapo-style state–supported by the Western governments–Egyptians are living under today. On several occasions, photographers like Nasser were subject to the police wrath, beatings, kidnappings, and had their cameras smashed.
The photo below, taken by Nasser Nouri, provides a glimpse of what Cairo’s Spring was like:
[Cairo’s Judges’ Club under security siege, April 2006. Photo by Nasser Nouri.]
Thanks Nasser and all the brave photographers who still insist on showing up to cover activist events, despite police intimidation.