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Pigs obstruct Bedouin conference

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From the Daily News Egypt:

Heightened security in North Sinai led to the delay of a proposed conference of Bedouin tribes in which they planned to make demands from the Egyptian government.
Earlier on Friday, hundreds of Bedouins had driven through towns between Rafah and Sheikh Zowayed to announce the conference, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Although it did take place, many of the representatives were unable to attend due to the closure of all the roads leading to Irsal, Shabana south of Rafah where the meeting was held.
Those who managed to attend released a statement declaring that another conference will be held on Aug. 25 where the Bedouins will make a list of demands.
Among these demands is the release of Bedouins incarcerated since a spate of terror attacks in tourist resorts across Southern Sinai in 2006.
Demands also include reaching an agreement for land ownership with the government and benefits from increased investment in Sinai.
The attendees also called for being given employment priority in projects in the area and that companies investing in Sinai offer services to the people in the vicinity.
“The government is not concerned with the simple people of Sinai and is more interested in the businessmen,” journalist and activist Mustapha Singer told Daily News Egypt.

Women relatives of incarcerated prisoners demand their release

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From the Daily News Egypt:

Around 40 women gathered in front of the governor’s office in Al-Arish in Northern Sinai Tuesday to protest the continuing incarceration of some 70 prisoners from Sinai arrested in the wake of a spate of bombings in the peninsula.
The protesters lifted placards and chanted slogans demanding the release of the prisoners, none of whom are kept in Sinai prisons but in other facilities such as Borg El-Arab, near Alexandria, and Cairo’s Tora prison.
According to journalist and activist Mustapha Singer who was present at the protest, the women chanted slogans saying “Our country’s leaders, why did you take our children?”
Children lifted placards with captions such as “Release my father.”
There was a security presence around the protest and “I was prevented from taking pictures,” Singer said.

Sinai Bedouins protest against arrest of tribesman

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From AFP…

Hundreds of Sinai Bedouins protested on Wednesday against the detention of one of their tribesmen, burning tires and blocking roads on the peninsula, a security official said.
“Hundreds of Bedouins from north Sinai have blocked roads in the Mahdia area near the Israeli border to protest against the detention of one Bedouin,” the official told AFP, adding that they were setting tires ablaze.
The man, Mahmoud Hassan Al-Menei, 40, was held on Tuesday without charge.