Despite a curfew, tear down the protests in Egypt on coming: In the night, police and demonstrators delivered a cat-and-mouse game in the streets of Cairo and Suez. New protests have been announced. Cairo / Suez - massive threats to the Egyptian leadership in spite of people go in Cairo, Suez and other cities next to the road.
In the Wednesday night small groups of demonstrators gathered to protest against President Hosni Mubarak, corruption and oppression. Policemen tried to disperse them. On Wednesday thousands of people in Cairo and other cities took to the streets. They demanded the resignation of Mubarak, the ruling authoritarian since 1981.
Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets into the crowd and hit with rubber truncheons. Demonstrators set fire to tires and threw stones at the police. In Suez, they used government buildings on fire. In the clashes since Tuesday killed at least three demonstrators and a policeman, dozens of people were injured.
Egypt's leadership tried with utmost severity, inspired by the popular uprising in Tunisia protests against social injustice to end. Internet activists, however, called for new action after the Friday prayer. gave conflicting information from the environment of the security forces to the death of a policeman and a civilian on Wednesday.
Thus, it was first called that the two had died during the demonstrations. Another representative of the security forces opposed this view later and called a traffic accident as the cause. According to the authorities, so far 500 people were arrested. An independent association of lawyers said, however, from 1200 Particularly sensitive was the situation on Wednesday in the port city of Suez, where protesters set fire to the town hall and a police building.
According to security sources and police, 52 demonstrators were injured. The Home Office imposed in the city a curfew. The Egyptian leadership has not responded to the various demands of the demonstrators. Some call for higher wages for civil servants, others protested against a new candidacy of Mubarak in the planned presidential election in the fall.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the evening of reform in the Arab country. At the same time they urged the authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations and access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Egypt is a close U.S. ally in the Arab world. However, Washington Mubarak urges for years to reform.
"We support the universal rights of the Egyptian people, which includes the right to freedom of expression and assembly," Clinton said after meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Tour operators cancel trips city, the Egyptian authorities blocked access to the short messaging service Twitter.
Also Egyptian Facebook users reported outages. Google and Gmail were also blocked at times. Observers said the security forces tried to prevent by this disruptive action that smaller groups together into larger protests. A group of hackers threatened with attacks on government websites, the website of the Ministry of Information was temporarily unavailable.
The protests are not controlled centrally, but are organized by many political alliances and human rights groups. In Cairo, several journalists were arrested. They are accused incited the masses and created chaos in the streets to have. Demonstrators reported that they had been attacked by policemen in civilian clothes.
In popular among German tourists Egyptian resorts on the Red Sea was no trace of the unrest. However, said the tour operator Tours from Cairo. This precaution was taken initially for one day, it was said at the party Thomas Cook / Neckermann and FTI. The Rewe package tour (ITS, Jahn Reisen, Tjaereborg) said they can fix that since Tuesday no more tourists to the capital.
The Egyptian Museum, one of the major visitor attractions of the city, is located on Tahrir square, where a fight in the night, the protesters had with the police.
In the Wednesday night small groups of demonstrators gathered to protest against President Hosni Mubarak, corruption and oppression. Policemen tried to disperse them. On Wednesday thousands of people in Cairo and other cities took to the streets. They demanded the resignation of Mubarak, the ruling authoritarian since 1981.
Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets into the crowd and hit with rubber truncheons. Demonstrators set fire to tires and threw stones at the police. In Suez, they used government buildings on fire. In the clashes since Tuesday killed at least three demonstrators and a policeman, dozens of people were injured.
Egypt's leadership tried with utmost severity, inspired by the popular uprising in Tunisia protests against social injustice to end. Internet activists, however, called for new action after the Friday prayer. gave conflicting information from the environment of the security forces to the death of a policeman and a civilian on Wednesday.
Thus, it was first called that the two had died during the demonstrations. Another representative of the security forces opposed this view later and called a traffic accident as the cause. According to the authorities, so far 500 people were arrested. An independent association of lawyers said, however, from 1200 Particularly sensitive was the situation on Wednesday in the port city of Suez, where protesters set fire to the town hall and a police building.
According to security sources and police, 52 demonstrators were injured. The Home Office imposed in the city a curfew. The Egyptian leadership has not responded to the various demands of the demonstrators. Some call for higher wages for civil servants, others protested against a new candidacy of Mubarak in the planned presidential election in the fall.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the evening of reform in the Arab country. At the same time they urged the authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations and access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Egypt is a close U.S. ally in the Arab world. However, Washington Mubarak urges for years to reform.
"We support the universal rights of the Egyptian people, which includes the right to freedom of expression and assembly," Clinton said after meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Tour operators cancel trips city, the Egyptian authorities blocked access to the short messaging service Twitter.
Also Egyptian Facebook users reported outages. Google and Gmail were also blocked at times. Observers said the security forces tried to prevent by this disruptive action that smaller groups together into larger protests. A group of hackers threatened with attacks on government websites, the website of the Ministry of Information was temporarily unavailable.
The protests are not controlled centrally, but are organized by many political alliances and human rights groups. In Cairo, several journalists were arrested. They are accused incited the masses and created chaos in the streets to have. Demonstrators reported that they had been attacked by policemen in civilian clothes.
In popular among German tourists Egyptian resorts on the Red Sea was no trace of the unrest. However, said the tour operator Tours from Cairo. This precaution was taken initially for one day, it was said at the party Thomas Cook / Neckermann and FTI. The Rewe package tour (ITS, Jahn Reisen, Tjaereborg) said they can fix that since Tuesday no more tourists to the capital.
The Egyptian Museum, one of the major visitor attractions of the city, is located on Tahrir square, where a fight in the night, the protesters had with the police.
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