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Protests roundup

Posted on 10/08/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Tuesday, 7 August:

Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting that 7,000 residents from the Nasr slum, in Maadi took blocked the highroad protesting drinking water shortages. The citizens were carrying empty plastic containers. They were dispersed by the police which threatened to use live ammunition.

In the evening, journalists marked the victims of torture by standing in silence at the Press Syndicate.

While in Tanta, 200 farmers protested demanding the govt fulfilled its promises of supplying them with fertilizers.

3,000 Sinai Bedouins are demonstrating now

Posted on 30/07/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Our friend Serene is currently in Sinai. She texted me saying: “Bedouins stage three thousand-strong demo at Masoura, near Rafah in protest of plans to demolish houses by Egyptian (-Palestinian) border. Approx 3000 families affected by plans.”

Sinai Bedouins fear losing homes

Posted on 23/07/200720/01/2021 By 3arabawy

From Al-Jazeera:

At least 700 Egyptian Bedouins have protested over fears the Egyptian government plans to remove their houses from an area along the border with the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of police surrounded the Sinai desert Bedouins as they set several tyres ablaze in the Massura area, on the main road between Rafah and the nearby city of Al-Arish in Egypt.
The demonstrations followed a visit two days earlier by local officials who surveyed land and houses near the border.
This prompted fears among Bedouins that an anti-smuggling measure, that has not been implemented to date, could be used to remove their homes.