مصر Egypt Uprising – mass demonstrations in Cairo! People fight against violent police

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28 JAN 2011: brave people fight against violent police forces and push them back. the masses will make the dictatorial government collapse! Protests have erupted in cities across Egypt following Friday midday prayers, with angry demonstrators demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year presidency. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the country, witnesses have said. Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, reporting from the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, said protesters streamed out of mosques shortly after prayers to chant slogans against Mubarak. Police responded immediately, firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. Alexandria is a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s technically banned but largest political opposition group, but Rageh said the crowds in the city predominantly consisted of “ordinary citizens”. “This is the same mosque where protests were held against police brutality in June after a 20-year-old man was beaten to death by police,” she said. “It’s very symbolic that the current protests are taking place at the same place all over again.” Protests were also reported in Suez, a port on the Red Sea east of Cairo, and in the Nile Delta cities of Mansoura and Sharqiya, witnesses said. Clashes between protesters and police erupted outside a mosque in Cairo. Protesters reportedly threw stones and dirt at the police after security forces confronted them. They held up posters saying “No to dictatorship” and stamped on posters of …


 

 

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