Tag: mutiny

Policeman referred to military court for refusing to guard Israeli embassy in Cairo

Posted on 20/02/200726/12/2020 By 3arabawy

An Egyptian policeman has been referred to a military court because he refused to guard the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
Major general Adel Al Helali, a senior aid of the Interior Minister and Giza security manager, ordered policeman Muhammad Khalaf Hassan Ibrahim who is serving in the force guarding the Israeli embassy in Anas Bin Malek St. in Giza to appear before a military prosecution to investigate with him over the incident of a sit-in and hunger strike that he staged in protest at transferring him from Bab Sharq police station, Alexandria, to Giza security department, in the force entrusted with guarding the building of the Israeli embassy .
The policeman filed several complaints to the presidency, calling for returning him back to his work in Alexandria because he refuses to guard the headquarters of the Israeli embassy in Cairo due to the crimes Israel is committing in the Middle East , in addition being unable to afford the expenses of traveling and living away from his family .
The military prosecution jailed him for 15 days pending trial, and was sent to Um Al-Misriyeen hospital to receive treatment and artificial feeding after he insisted on maintaining the hunger strike till his demands are met .

UPDATE: Reuters also reported the story here.

1986 CSF Conscripts Intifada

Posted on 02/02/200725/12/2020 By 3arabawy

I got hold of some rare photos of the famous February 1986 Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces conscripts mutiny. Mubarak had to call in the army to smash the uprising.

It was the third time in modern Egyptian history that army tanks swarmed through the capital, after the 1952 coup and the 1977 Bread Intifada.

1986 CSF Conscripts Intifada, Photo by Reuters

CSF conscripts on strike in Mahalla

Posted on 23/01/200715/04/2024 By 3arabawy

Around 2000 Central Security Forces conscripts are on strike in Mahalla, protesting maltreatment at the hands of their officers.

Yes, Mubarak’s tools of oppression are on strike, according to news trickling from the Nile Delta town. The conscripts, say today’s Al-Midan and Mooga website, started a hunger strike yesterday (or the day before–I haven’t confirmed the date yet), after a colleague of theirs, 22-year-old Amir Mustafa Hassan, committed suicide by shooting himself as he couldn’t put up with the officers’ abuse anymore.

In 1986, thousands of CSF conscripts went on strike in Giza and Cairo, after rumors spread the government was planning to extend the conscription period by one year. The soldiers occupied their camps, attacked their officers, and cut the roads into Cairo. Mubarak sent his army tanks and choppers on the conscripts as militancy spread to the slums, with the urban poor descending on El-Haram St., burning the Five-Star hotels and the elite nightclubs.

I’ll update this posting whenever I get more news, but in the meantime, I’ll leave you with this leaked video of a CSF conscript being mocked by his police officers.

UPDATE: Check out this article in Arabic by Ibrahim el-Sahary.