Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Egyptian police are rigorously against demonstrators to prevent mass protests against President Mubarak.

The Egyptian police are rigorously against demonstrators to prevent mass protests against President Mubarak. Dozens of people were arrested in Cairo, water cannons are used. The opponents of the dictator throw stones. The security forces have permission to shoot. Cairo - will by all means prevent the Egyptian leadership's announced opposition mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak.

They are cracking down the protesters, mainly from the center of Cairo are violent clashes reported. The police near a mosque, water cannon against hundreds of demonstrators who chanted "Down with Mubarak". She went in front with rubber bullets against opposition supporters, who at a rally with the Nobel Peace Mohamed ElBaradeiteilnahmen.


The demonstrators threw stones at the security forces and trampled on Mubarak posters. Previously, even the internet in Cairo and other places had previously been cut off, and before the Friday prayers, the police had removed dozens of people in Cairo, according to eyewitness reports, without further notice.

Especially in the central Tahrir Square, in the Ramsis Square and al-Isaaf district, many people have been arrested. The police had already shown previously in the capital by many people, the passes. Many passers-by were searched before the Friday prayer of the officials. Also in Suez on the morning it will have come to new protests.

The government leadership is apparently determined to stifle the protests and to remain in power. "The police have given clear instructions to prevent any demonstration, and if necessary to shoot directly to potential protestors" from Egyptian security sources said. Several Egyptian opposition parties and other protest alliance had called the people to demonstrate again on Friday after prayers in the mosque and after church.

Because of the Internet blockade, the vote of the demonstrators since the night is difficult for this Friday. sent text messages are no longer with Blackberry phones may be Web sites like Twitter, Facebook and e-mail service from Google are completely blocked. The server for Web sites of the Egyptian government and the U.S.

Embassy in Cairo are paralyzed obvious. The Egyptian telecommunications companies are said to have decided in a secret session to cut in the event of an escalation of the protests this Friday all communication channels. At the end of the meeting for information of the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk was decided that the Internet provider TEDATA and the mobile phone companies Mobinil, Vodafone and Etisalat Friday with a representative to send to the state-owned telecommunications company in order to coordinate further steps.

A spokesman for Mubarak asserted, however, Facebook and Twitter have not been decommissioned. Leading Muslim brothers arrested in the night, the Egyptian police arrested, according to a lawyer be at least 20 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Among them will be five former MPs.

A representative of the security authorities said the authorities had ordered a raid. The organization had previously banned the first time declared to participate in the protests after Friday prayers, which will be the largest since Mubarak took office in 1981. The Muslim Brotherhood demands include the dissolution of Parliament, constitutional changes and the release of demonstrators.

Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) called on Egypt not to proceed with force against demonstrators. "We urge the Egyptian government to renounce violence," said Westerwelle in the ZDF "Morning Magazine". The Vice Chancellor also claimed that the demonstration freedoms are respected in the country.

"We are in talks with the Egyptian government in recent months repeatedly made clear that a stabilization of the country is only possible by allowing democracy and freedom and rights." Even Barack Obama Mubarak is now under pressure. He was convinced that political and economic reforms "absolutely crucial" for Egypt's future have, the U.S.

president said in a "YouTube" interview. He had repeatedly urged Mubarak to reform. At the same time Obama pointed out that Mubarak had been a close ally "in a lot of important issues" and a partner in the Arab-Israeli peace process. "President Mubarak is very helpful in a number of difficult issues in the Middle East have been." The protests show after Obama's words "pent-up frustration" about the situation of Egyptian society.

It is essential that people are free in every country "to bring to their legitimate complaints about the expression".

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