Two policemen have been reported dead – Lieutenant Ahmed El-Balki and low-ranking police officer, Ayman Abdel Azim – in current Port Said clashes, according to Egypt’s interior ministry. Clashes erupted Saturday morning following a death sentence verdict against 21 Port … read more
Clashes erupt between angry protesters and security forces surrounding the Port Said General Prison after a court announces a death sentence to 21 local football fans convicted of attacking and killing opposition Ahly fans during a match. Security forces fired … read more
Raged over the verdict announced early Saturday by Port Said Criminal Court slamming 21 of the defendents with death sentences, families of the convicted are attempting to break into the Port Said General prison. Seventy-three defendants, including nine security officials, … read more
A Cairo court sentenced 21 of the defendants of the Port Said football fans’ massacre to death on Saturday morning. The fate of the rest of the 75 defendants is to be determined in another hearing set for 9 March. … read more
CAIRO: Clashes between protesters and police have begun again near Cairo’s Tahrir Square at around noon on Friday as Egypt celebrates the second anniversary of the beginning of the January 25, 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak. Activists and … read more
Activists and political forces are planning a series of marches for the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, to kick off after Friday prayers. Under the slogan, “The revolution continues until its goals are met,” the marches will start … read more
The Interior Ministry issued a high security alert ahead of protests on Friday that commemorate the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, coinciding with the scheduled declaration of the verdict in the Port Said Stadium massacre trial on Saturday … read more
During Tunisia’s revolution in late 2010, ‘Bread, freedom and human dignity!’ became a trademark chant. And as Egyptians revolutionaries followed suit, hitting the streets to topple another autocratic regime, they shouted the same slogan in the early days of Egypt’s … read more
Clashes intensified between riot police and protesters who broke down parts of the concrete block wall at Cairo’s downtown street Qasr El-Aini, leaving three policemen injured and tens of protesters unconscious on Thursday. The three policemen were transferred to the … read more
Egypt president Mohamed Morsi has on Thursday taken a swipe at what he described as remnants of the Hosni Mubarak regime for trying to plunge the country into deep troubles as it struggles to recover from economic woes. Morsi gave … read more