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Anti-police riot; Mubarak’s poster smashed

Posted on 22/08/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

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.

Interior ministry to pay LE25 millions in compensation to Islamist detainees

Posted on 19/08/200803/01/2021 By 3arabawy

From the Daily News Egypt:

The Ministry of Interior has agreed to pay compensations of up to LE 25 million to approximately 1,000 detainees from Islamist organizations who were convicted and detained in the 1990s, reported the local press.
However, when contacted by Daily News Egypt, the media department at the interior ministry refused to confirm, deny or comment.
“We haven’t released an official statement regarding this issue so we have no comment on it,” said the interior ministry official.
A member of the ministry’s legal affairs department, however, told Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity that “the ministry has every intention of paying the compensations,” adding that it had paid thousands in compensation in the past few years.
Each detainee is expected to receive between LE 20,000 and LE 50,000.
Yet the detainees’ lawyers complain that while the ministry has announced it will give out the compensations, it has failed to do so.

There are a couple of errors in the above report, when you read it on the DNE website. The title says “Interior ministry to pay million in compensation to Islamist detainees, say reports” while the article text says LE25 million. Also the report mentions “Islamist terrorism had reached its climax in Egypt in the 1990s mainly targeting political figures, Christians and foreigners. The worst attack came in November 1998 when armed men shot down 71 tourists at the Hatshepsut Temple in Luxor.” Actually, the Luxor massacre happened on 17 November 1997, and those killed as far as I know were 59 tourists and four Egyptians.

To read more about the plight of Islamist detainees, during the 1990s Dirty War, check out those two links.

‘The people are not scared anymore’

Posted on 17/08/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Ahmad Abdel Sabour is one of the leading Sharqiya Tax strikers.

Sharqiya has roughly 7,000 real estate tax collectors, working in 22 local offices scattered across the eastern Nile Delta province, in addition to a main directorate in Zagazig, the provincial capital. Recalling the December 2007 occupation, Ahmad says.

Everyone (in Sharqiya) was afraid in the beginning. They were scared of their bosses and from what State Security could do. At the first day of the occupation (in downtown Cairo) I was more or less alone – I was the only one from Sharqiya. But then as time passed, and as the (Hussein Higazi St) camp stood fast, delegation after the other started coming down from the (Sharqiya) province…
The people (tax collectors in Sharqiya) are not scared anymore. In the past, they used to, but now not anymore. Everyone is happy and proud of what we did in the strike… But this is not the end…. We still have rights and promises unfulfilled. There is support for building an independent union.