Posts Tagged: pigs
Patterns of repression: Prisoners of Egypt’s counterrevolution
My latest article on repression in Egypt is available in English and German.
Read on »Court acquits policemen of #Jan28 murder charges
The notorious former director of security in Beheira, General Magdi Abu Qamar, whose troops massacred protesters on the Friday of Anger, 28 January 2011, has been acquitted of all murder charges, together with a number of policemen.
Read on »‘The army is on their side!’
A video shot on the Friday of Anger, 28 January 2011, at the moment when the first army vehicles started moving into Tahrir via Qasr el-Nil Bridge. In the video you can see and hear cheers from the revolutionaries with great enthusiasm. This didn’t last long. They discovered the army was not coming in to
Read on »Protests in Sudan
Protests are sweeping Sudanese cities over living costs, and are met by brute force, arrests, tear gas and curfews.
Read on »The Central Security Forces
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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