Tag: telecommunication
Clashes on Aswan Island
It is happening again, this time in Aswan.
Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile River.
Police detained 11 from the island’s youth, but around 1000 residents showed up in front of the prosecutor demonstrating, forcing the government to release the detainees, stop the building of the tower on the island, in exchange for the residents compensating the company for the construction materials they threw in the river.
More details in Arabic from Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Police clash with Giza protesters: 1 killed, 20 wounded
From AP:
Gunfire broke out Thursday between police and protesters opposed to construction of a cell phone tower south of Giza, and one man was killed and 20 people were wounded, authorities said.
Several thousand residents of Kafr Turk, a town about 19 miles south of Cairo’s twin city of Giza, had gathered to protest an attempt by Orascom Telecom–the owner of the MobiNil cell phone company operator in Egypt–to erect the tower in the area.