Protestors getting crushed in Cairo

[FAH1223]

the protestors keep shouting "Al-Thowra mostamera" Revolution continuing and calling for the end of military rule

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/world ... cairo.html

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

Dad waalan.
Maybe they missed the worldwide attention

[FAH1223]

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/25/world ... arassment/

A prominent Egyptian activist says that continued sexual assaults of women protestors shows the Mubarak regime's "culture of violence" towards women remains unchanged in Egypt today.

"For years Mubarak's regime was torturing women, harassing women, detaining mothers and daughters and wives of prisoners to put pressure on them," said Mozn Hassan, director of the research organization Nazra for Feminist Studies. "For sure it's the culture of the SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces).

"It's a culture-based violence towards women. They want to exclude us from the public. The SCAF want to give the message that revolutionary people, if they are men, they are thugs, if they are women, they are sex workers and prostitutes."



Well-known American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy was left with a broken left arm and right hand after what she describes as a "brutal beating" and sexual assault by Egyptian riot police Wednesday.

Eltahwy says the attack took place in Tahrir Square while she was covering the protests.

"Right now my left arm is broken and my right hand is broken and this is as a result of a brutal beating by the Egyptian riot police.

"A group of riot police surrounded me -- about five of them -- and they beat me and their big sticks kind of rained down upon my arm and that's why it's broken because I was trying to protect myself.

"And they also sexually assaulted me -- I was groped all over my body. I lost count of the number of hands that tried to get into my trousers.

"They dragged me to the Ministry of the Interior ... they dragged me by the hair, called me all kinds of insults," she said.
I lost count of the number of hands that tried to get into my trousers



Eltahawy says she was detained there for for 10 to 12 hours, first by ministry officials and then by military intelligence.

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She says that sexual assault has long been used by the Egyptian security forces as a weapon against women.

"Egyptian security services have used sexual assault to try to intimidate women from street protests and activism and for years now Egyptian women have bravely spoken out.

"I'm taking this chance to shame them, to shame them for what they did because when I was being assaulted by those riot police officers, it was as if I was set upon by a bunch of beasts," she said.

Colonel Islam Jaffar, Head of the military's Morals Department in Central Cairo said he saw Eltahawy and spoke to her during her detention.

He said that she had no Egyptian press pass that identified her as a reporter while she was in Tahrir Square taking photographs and reporting on clashes between protesters and the police and army.

He said: "What did she expect? She could be a spy for all we know. When she told me she was sexually assaulted I encouraged her to take the appropriate legal action."

Eltahawy is not the first prominent Egyptian female to accuse security forces of sexual assault in the recent violence in Egypt

[Jaidi]

They killed a well liked Azhari sheikh yesterday who was with the protesters outside cabinet.



Video of moment after he was shot. A lot of people have been furious about this and they're trying to cover up their culpabiity in it.

His janazah:



After his funeral, with young people and another Azhari sheikh denouncing SCAF.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

These chunky Egyptians are protesting because of bread prices, nothing else. I think a bread shortage would do wonders for their health. Egyptian bitches are the fattest hogs on the planet, their men would probably not mind a well-placed famine to tone them a bit.

[Jaidi]

These chunky Egyptians are protesting because of bread prices, nothing else. I think a bread shortage would do wonders for their health. Egyptian bitches are the fattest hogs on the planet, their men would probably not mind a well-placed famine to tone them a bit.

Nonsense, 90 percent of these people middle class( in Egyptian standards). In fact the poorest people who are effected by bread prices( Upper Egypt, etc) are not protesting, so this BS theory holds no weight.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Even poor Egyptians are fat, I remember seeing a bread riot some years ago in Cairo and they were all chunky, from kids to adults. Go to Iraq and you'll find skinny little Arabs, go to Syria and you'll find the same. That does not hold for Egyptians, who can be very poor yet still be very fat.

[Jaidi]

Even poor Egyptians are fat, I remember seeing a bread riot some years ago in Cairo and they were all chunky, from kids to adults. Go to Iraq and you'll find skinny little Arabs, go to Syria and you'll find the same. That does not hold for Egyptians, who can be very poor yet still be very fat.

This has nothing to do with weight these protesters are not poor. The poorest neighborhoods in Cairo are not protesting in fact they do not understand what the fuss is about and generally support the army to restore order. A lot of the protesters are university students as well.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

[Jaidi]

She was wearing a abaya and hijab and they stripped it off

[arabmtu]

Even poor Egyptians are fat, I remember seeing a bread riot some years ago in Cairo and they were all chunky, from kids to adults. Go to Iraq and you'll find skinny little Arabs, go to Syria and you'll find the same. That does not hold for Egyptians, who can be very poor yet still be very fat.

Egyptians eat a lot. On average, a young Egyptian boy would daily eat at least 10 bread (eesh) with beans and other food. Adults eat even more. Personally, if I eat 6 eesh, I won't have to eat for 48 hours.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

She was wearing a abaya and hijab and they stripped it off

I have no sympathy for protestors. I would pepper them with bullets if I was in power.

[Saraxnow]

^ He's stripping her you plank of wood!

[Saraxnow]

That bastard of a ''security'' officer was stomping on her stomach. His leg should be chopped off
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[Leila25]

They beat the woman in red who tries to help the girl around the head. The crowd will just get bigger and bigger, I hope MB joins the protests.