Thursday, January 27, 2011

Riots: Government of Egypt is choking protests

Egypt faces new and bloody protests. The government has announced tough action against protesters - more demonstrations would be tolerated. But the opposition can not be put off: Call on the Internet to mass protests. They stand at street corners, squares and bridges. Thousands of police patrolled the streets of the Egyptian capital, Cairo - to prevent new mass protests.

The opposition calls for an end of oppression, corruption and poverty. The Egyptian government responded with the police presence and severity. Should there be any new protests would proceed against the security forces targeted an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. "No one will be allowed to foment rebellion, to hold protest meetings or to organize demonstrations.


Should not someone hold it, then immediately the legal measures taken and included investigations of the participants." A day after the bloody clashes in which four people died threaten therefore new conflicts. Dozens of demonstrators are already gathered in downtown Cairo, the news agency reports.

Government critics had called on Wednesday morning meetings. "Do not go to work, does not go to school. Let us all hand in hand for our Egypt take to the streets," one activist wrote on Facebook. "We will be millions," it said. The social network has played a key role in organizing the protests.

Even in recent days human rights groups and opposition by Facebook had called for demonstrations - it was the most violent protests since the inauguration of President Hosni Mubarak 1981st More and more voices are now calling for his resignation. "Down with Hosni," protesters demanded. How hard he can fight the protests, was already Tuesday night: Security forces drove the demonstrators in central Cairo apart violently.

The police used tear gas and water cannons against them. Eyewitnesses marked, many people were covered in blood in the streets of the Egyptian capital, running, others had collapsed unconscious. Four dead and dozens of arrests also in many other Egyptian cities was to come to protest. Three demonstrators and one policeman were killed.

In the port city of Suez, the police opened fire on protesters in riots, killing two people. On Wednesday a 45-year-old protester died from his injuries Suez. According to his doctors, the man died of internal bleeding. The police had shot him with rubber bullets in the abdomen. Scores more were injured.

Dozens of protesters were arrested across the country, reported the Organisatn the protests. The U.S. called on the leadership in Cairo to show restraint. The government should respond to protests peacefully and pursue political, economic and social reforms, said the White House. The Egyptian people have the right to freedom of expression.

Egypt is in a state of emergency since 1981. Large demonstrations are usually completed quickly by the police. But in recent days could be intimidating the demonstrators. Many complain of poverty, unemployment and rising prices. They hope for a similar coup in Tunisia: About two weeks ago, the Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown by mass protests.

Ben Ali now lives in exile in Saudi Arabia. Because of the unrest in Egypt, several German tour operators have called off on Wednesday day trips from the Red Sea to Cairo. This precaution applies for a first day, it was said at the party Thomas Cook / Neckermann and FTI. The Rewe package tour (ITS, Jahn Reisen, Tjaereborg) was on Tuesday brought no more tourists in Egypt's capital, a spokeswoman.

The protests also provided for in the financial uncertainty. The main Egyptian equity index fell by almost five percent. The Egyptian pound against the dollar sank to its lowest level since January 2005. 

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