While the Egyptian government has done everything, Wednesday, January 26, to block a protest without precedent since the coming to power of President Hosni Mubarak in 1981, the situation remained unclear Wednesday night about the extent of current events, less important than yesterday but reported to be more violent.
Medical authorities and channel Al Jazeera has reported on the evening and killed two people in Cairo (a protester and a policeman), bringing to six the number of casualties since the beginning of the unrest. However, an Egyptian security official has contradicted this information, attributing these deaths to a traffic accident unrelated to the clashes between police and demonstrators.
The official, requesting anonymity, told the agency that an investigation was underway to determine how a policeman and a passerby had Tuvinian death after being hit by a car near downtown. The further stated that the clashes took place Wednesday night before the foreign ministries between police and dozens of protesters, then dispersed by tear gas.
Earlier, the agency reported that police fired rubber bullets to disperse several thousand protesters gathered in downtown. Undercover police also continued to question people in the crowd and bludgeoned them, while protesters shouted: "The people want the fall of that regime." These new assemblies are involved, while at least 500 people were arrested across the country Wednesday, as security services.
The Interior Ministry had warned that prohibited any new event, Wednesday and that any offender would be brought to justice. The Associated Press reported on its side that 860 people were arrested. On the evening of Wednesday, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has updated its manual on Egypt advising its nationals to avoid public gathering places where clashes between police and protesters left at least several dozen wounded on Wednesday, according to medical sources.
A Suez port town north of the country, opponents have set fire in the early evening on Wednesday in a government building, and tried to burn down the offices of the ruling party. Sources close to the security services and witnesses said protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at the premises of the National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak to succeed without burning.
Police fired tear gas to repel protesters, and the municipality has ordered the closure of shops after looting had been reported. During the day, nearly 70 people were injured in clashes between police and demonstrators, medics said. Among the injured, 55 protesters, some of which are affected by rubber bullets and 15 police officers hit by throwing stones thrown by protesters.
Clashes have taken place especially outside the morgue between police and hundreds of people claiming the bodies of three protesters killed the day before. During the day, Tahrir Square (epicenter of Tuesday's events in Cairo) has been rather quiet, partly because of a massive police presence.
But particularly violent clashes were then reported in the city streets, where thousands of people have expressed their rejection of the plan and where protesters played cat and mouse with police. Clashes have again objected to the police in front of the local journalists' union and the trade union lawyers.
According to several journalists, the police tried to disperse the protesters by beating them with batons and tear gas. Particularly violent clashes were then reported in the surrounding streets. Several Internet World. en, however, tempered the degree of agitation Wednesday's known as the capital of Egypt "are quiet residential neighborhoods.
The schools are open and life goes on normally. The events of yesterday were concentrated in the downtown "Myriam indicated, a resident of the city. "Local residents continue as every day to cross the usual police on their street, and sometimes a few more trucks to be sure, without a care or cry to arms.
Following the match between Algeria and Egypt in 2009, protests became riots had done more damage, "testified another surfer living in the capital. Thousands of protesters had earlier managed to massage the front of the Cairo courthouse, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime." Movement of 6-April, a group of pro-democracy demonstrations at the root of Tuesday and Wednesday, has asked its demonstrators "to inform everyone that we have mass demonstrations on Friday, after prayers everywhere in Egypt.
" "Let him know before the government is blocking the Internet," added the message, pointing out that Twitter, widely used by demonstrators, was blocked in Egypt since Tuesday. Access to Facebook has been blocked on Wednesday afternoon, according to several testimonies on Twitter (the protesters use proxies to circumvent this censorship).
Several Internet World. fr confirm that they can no longer connect to social network since early afternoon. (Read "Facebook and Twitter blocked in Egypt"). Wednesday night, however, many users of Twitter and Facebook in Egypt showed a return of their connection to the micro-blogging site.
Le Monde. en with and 
Medical authorities and channel Al Jazeera has reported on the evening and killed two people in Cairo (a protester and a policeman), bringing to six the number of casualties since the beginning of the unrest. However, an Egyptian security official has contradicted this information, attributing these deaths to a traffic accident unrelated to the clashes between police and demonstrators.
The official, requesting anonymity, told the agency that an investigation was underway to determine how a policeman and a passerby had Tuvinian death after being hit by a car near downtown. The further stated that the clashes took place Wednesday night before the foreign ministries between police and dozens of protesters, then dispersed by tear gas.
Earlier, the agency reported that police fired rubber bullets to disperse several thousand protesters gathered in downtown. Undercover police also continued to question people in the crowd and bludgeoned them, while protesters shouted: "The people want the fall of that regime." These new assemblies are involved, while at least 500 people were arrested across the country Wednesday, as security services.
The Interior Ministry had warned that prohibited any new event, Wednesday and that any offender would be brought to justice. The Associated Press reported on its side that 860 people were arrested. On the evening of Wednesday, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has updated its manual on Egypt advising its nationals to avoid public gathering places where clashes between police and protesters left at least several dozen wounded on Wednesday, according to medical sources.
A Suez port town north of the country, opponents have set fire in the early evening on Wednesday in a government building, and tried to burn down the offices of the ruling party. Sources close to the security services and witnesses said protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at the premises of the National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak to succeed without burning.
Police fired tear gas to repel protesters, and the municipality has ordered the closure of shops after looting had been reported. During the day, nearly 70 people were injured in clashes between police and demonstrators, medics said. Among the injured, 55 protesters, some of which are affected by rubber bullets and 15 police officers hit by throwing stones thrown by protesters.
Clashes have taken place especially outside the morgue between police and hundreds of people claiming the bodies of three protesters killed the day before. During the day, Tahrir Square (epicenter of Tuesday's events in Cairo) has been rather quiet, partly because of a massive police presence.
But particularly violent clashes were then reported in the city streets, where thousands of people have expressed their rejection of the plan and where protesters played cat and mouse with police. Clashes have again objected to the police in front of the local journalists' union and the trade union lawyers.
According to several journalists, the police tried to disperse the protesters by beating them with batons and tear gas. Particularly violent clashes were then reported in the surrounding streets. Several Internet World. en, however, tempered the degree of agitation Wednesday's known as the capital of Egypt "are quiet residential neighborhoods.
The schools are open and life goes on normally. The events of yesterday were concentrated in the downtown "Myriam indicated, a resident of the city. "Local residents continue as every day to cross the usual police on their street, and sometimes a few more trucks to be sure, without a care or cry to arms.
Following the match between Algeria and Egypt in 2009, protests became riots had done more damage, "testified another surfer living in the capital. Thousands of protesters had earlier managed to massage the front of the Cairo courthouse, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime." Movement of 6-April, a group of pro-democracy demonstrations at the root of Tuesday and Wednesday, has asked its demonstrators "to inform everyone that we have mass demonstrations on Friday, after prayers everywhere in Egypt.
" "Let him know before the government is blocking the Internet," added the message, pointing out that Twitter, widely used by demonstrators, was blocked in Egypt since Tuesday. Access to Facebook has been blocked on Wednesday afternoon, according to several testimonies on Twitter (the protesters use proxies to circumvent this censorship).
Several Internet World. fr confirm that they can no longer connect to social network since early afternoon. (Read "Facebook and Twitter blocked in Egypt"). Wednesday night, however, many users of Twitter and Facebook in Egypt showed a return of their connection to the micro-blogging site.
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