Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Egyptian government is embarking on a new LE37 million scheme, according to the daily Shorouk, to install CCTV cameras in the underground metro stations to monitor passengers and metro workers alike. I wish this money was instead allocated to the metro workers who’ve gone repeatedly on strike since 2007 over work conditions and benefits.
Moreover, Shorouk reports, CCTV cameras will be installed in the streets around the Cairo Stadium.
Hundreds of citizens stormed and smashed the offices of the police and private security at a south Cairo underground metro station Wednesday night after security assaulted a lawyer, El-Badeel reports.
Security personnel in the Dar Essalam Metro Station with the help of two Police Corporals beat a lawyer till he passed out. The citizens, thinking the lawyer was dead, stormed and destroyed the offices of the police, private security, station manager and the cashiers. Also the demonstrators took down Hosni Mubarak’s picture hung on the wall of the police office, and stepped on it Mahalla-style.
Those interviewed in El-Badeel article complained of mistreatment on the hands of security and station officials, and said the latter were regularly harassing the women passengers.