Egyptian day of action becomes revolution
malcolm | 28.01.2011 13:32 | Repression | Social Struggles
Overnight dissidents have been arrested. The state has forcibly downed the mobile phone and internet networks. Info on today's events is therefore reliant on corporate media reporters present at the scene. Currently it seems mass groups around the country are overpowering rubber-bullet wielding cops and seizing state infrastructure. Expect the fall of the government.
Cairo: one protester has been killed in Tahrir Square, no more info at the moment. Some police breaking ranks to join protesters. Rubber bullets fired. Protesters destroying Mubarak propaganda.
East Alexandria: Police have attacked protesters leaving places of prayer to join in demos - tear gas and rubber bullets fired. However protest numbers swelled and another crowd arrived behind the police lines, police now trapped and out of ammo, protesters squeezing them for space and calling on cops to join them. Some cops are.
Suez: A police station has been overrun - police armoured vehicles have been destroyed and detainees freed. 4000 have surrounded the governate building. 2 soldiers have been arrested and charged after refusing to discharge live ammunition last night.
Mansoura: NDP headquarters overrun (and, says one tweeter, destroyed) by tens of thousands.
Even corporate media are facing extreme state repression and censorship. In Cairo a CNN crew had their cameras smashed and stolen by plainclothes cops. Vodafone has confirmed the government has decreed that mobile phone networks should be shut down - this is a legal power the government has in Egypt.
East Alexandria: Police have attacked protesters leaving places of prayer to join in demos - tear gas and rubber bullets fired. However protest numbers swelled and another crowd arrived behind the police lines, police now trapped and out of ammo, protesters squeezing them for space and calling on cops to join them. Some cops are.
Suez: A police station has been overrun - police armoured vehicles have been destroyed and detainees freed. 4000 have surrounded the governate building. 2 soldiers have been arrested and charged after refusing to discharge live ammunition last night.
Mansoura: NDP headquarters overrun (and, says one tweeter, destroyed) by tens of thousands.
Even corporate media are facing extreme state repression and censorship. In Cairo a CNN crew had their cameras smashed and stolen by plainclothes cops. Vodafone has confirmed the government has decreed that mobile phone networks should be shut down - this is a legal power the government has in Egypt.
malcolm
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Riot van forced off bridge
28.01.2011 13:50
Cairo: Egyptian protesters force riot van off bridge
malcolm
police shoot protester
28.01.2011 13:53
blogger
Detainees freed by demonstrators
28.01.2011 15:20
Friday's 'Day of Rage' protests are reportedly the biggest seen so far, and all this despite government blocks on comms systems.
Constant updates here:
We are all Khaled Said
The army has arrived
28.01.2011 16:59
fred