This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces: UPDATE: I was honored to speak with the author of the study, in a Zoom meeting.
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Friday of Anger جمعة الغضب
Bringing down Mubarak’s interior ministry
Following the Obour Central Security Forces conscripts mutiny (which was put down by the intervention of the army, together with concessions and promises offered), now around 300 soldiers and corporals at the neighboring 6th of October City police camp, assigned with guarding private and public banks, businesses and facilities, have gone on mutiny too, over
Read on »CSF conscripts on mutiny
Central Security Forces in Obour are now on mutiny, following the the death of one of their colleagues, reportedly tortured by an officer. The conscripts have stormed the gates of their camp, and cut the Cairo – Ismailia road. In the video above, they are even chanting a famous UWK anti-police song! There are reports
Read on »Pigs crack down on revolutionaries in downtown Cairo
Videos of the ongoing attack in Bab el-Louq:
Read on »Mubarak’s pigs return
In Cold Blood أفراد الشرطة يحتفلون بقنص عيون الثوار العزل
Egyptian central security soldiers and officers at Muhammad Mahmoud Street, overheard in the above video, congratulating each other for shooting a protester in the eye.
Read on »#Nov19: Tahrir Intifada
Tahrir protesters under attack by tear gas canisters, fired by CSF troops advancing in Muhammad Mahmoud Street on Saturday. A young man picks up the tear gas canister to throw it back at the police. CSF troops advancing on Tahrir from Qasr el-Aini Street fire more rounds of tear gas at demonstrators in Tahrir.
Read on »#Nov19: Made in the USA
The Central Security Forces extensively used rounds of US-made tear gas canisters against protesters in Tahrir on Saturday.
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A Central Security Forces conscript in Maspero on Friday, assuring protesters from inside the armored truck that he would not attack them, and expressing his discontent with the officers.
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