Thousands have started flocking to Tahrir since the morning, as anti-government protests continue in Cairo, Suez and elsewhere. In Alexandria, mass protests are taking place now in front of the Security Directorate, denouncing the interior ministry, calling for the prosecution of police torturers and demanding impeaching Khaled Gharraba and minister Mansour el-Essawi. Striking workers from …
Under pressure national protests in Tahrir, Suez, Alexandria and elsewhere, on Wednesday General Mansour el-Essawi has described his ministry’s reshuffle as “the biggest” in its history. The reshuffle covers 4,000 police officers according to the minister who stated that the ministry ended the service of 505 major-generals and brigadier-generals and 82 colonels. These include 18 …
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General Khaled Gharraba, the former head of Criminal Investigations Division at the Gharbeia Province Security Directorate, whose men oversaw the mass detentions and torture of protesters during the Mahalla April 2008, was rewarded a promotion in 2010, by General Habib el-Adly, becoming the security director of Alexandria’s eastern sector. General Gharraba is now the police …
During the Saturday session of the Mahalla 49 trial (with 37 defendants only present), security chiefs of the town of Mahalla and the Gharbeia province were called on to testify as the prosecution witnesses. Uniformed police officers and soldiers formed a cordon around them, making it very difficult to approach them and take proper photos …