Egypt's 25th of January Revolution

[xAbd0o]

"6 إبريل" تدرب النشطاء على استخدام الدروع الواقية

عقدت حركة شباب 6 إبريل مساء أمس ورشة تدريبية لتقديم الإرشادات القانونية وكيفية التحرك الميدانى لأكثر من 50 ناشطاً استعداداً ليوم الغضب غدا الثلاثاء 25 يناير.

أكد الناشط محمد عادل أن الحركة قامت بتدريب النشطاء على تقنية "الدروع الواقية" التى تستخدمها لأول مرة فى المظاهرات للحماية من اعتداءات الأمن وليس لاستخدامها كوسيلة للضرب، بحيث يتكون الدرع من شقين الأول منهما خاص بحماية الصدر وهو عبارة عن ورق مقوى يلصق حول الجسم بالمواد اللاصقة سهلة الالتفاف أما الجزء الثانى فيتعلق بحماية الكوعين ويتكون من زجاجتين بلاستيك تتعلق بالقرب من الكوعين.

وأضاف عادل أن هذه الوسيلة بجانب إعداد الحركة لما يقرب من 20 درع بلاستيك لحماية متظاهرى الصف الأول، كما تستعد للفاعلية بشنطة إسعافات أولية لإسعاف المتظاهرين.

ولم تخلو إرشادات الورشة من الجانب القانونى حيث قدم كلا من الحقوقيين مالك عدلى وسيد فتحى بعض النصائح، بدأت بالتأكيد على أن التظاهر السلمى حق يكفله الدستور والقانون، بجانب حق المتظاهر إذا اعترضته الجهات الأمنية فى الشارع أن يطلع على هوية من يلقى القبض عليه، أما إذا كان داخل المظاهرة وقبض على عدد ما من المتظاهرين فعليهم التوحد معا واختيار متحدث باسمهم منعا لتشتت الآراء، موضحين أنه لا يجب أن يتجاوز وقت الاحتجاز الـ 24 ساعة دون العرض على النيابة ويكون احتجازا دون وجه حق.

قال مالك عدلى فى ورقة قانونية له، إن إلقاء القبض على الناشط قد يكون غرضه إما احتجازه لبعض الوقت ثم إخلاء سبيله أو بغرض تحرير محضر وإحالته للنيابة، فوجب مراعاة عده أمور على حد قولة، وإنه فى حالة وقوع اعتداء لفظى أو بدنى يجب التركيز فى واقعة الاعتداء بكامل تفاصيلها.

وأضاف عدلى، أنه إذا كانت المحتجزة أنثى فلا يجوز تفتيشها إلا بمعرفة أنثى مضيفا أنه ليس من حق أحد تقييد الملقى القبض عليه من الخلف أو تعصيب العينين وفى حالة حدوث ذلك فإن تلك تعد جريمة يعاقب عليها ويجب إثباتها أمام النيابة.

وعن التحرك الميدانى وكيفية التعامل داخل المظاهرة نصح الناشط الحقوقى خالد عبد الحميد النشطاء بعدم الدخول فى مناقشات مع الأمن حول حق التظاهر، لافتا إلى أن التظاهر حق يكفله القانون والدستور، وعمل الضابط فى المقابل منع المظاهرة لذا فإن الحوار حول تلك النقطة لن يجدى على حد قوله.

أما النصيحة الثانية التى تقدم بها للحفاظ على الهدوء والترتيب داخل المظاهرة وعدم الاحتكاك بالأمن قائلا: "ليس من واجبى ضرب الأمن إنما التظاهر"، وكذلك كانت هناك فقرة لتعليم النشطاء كيفية استخدام الشبكات الاجتماعية كالفيس بوك والتويتر لرصد كافة فعاليات اليوم ونقلها مباشرة للقراء فى كافة الأماكن.

http://www.youm7.com//News.asp?NewsID=342981

Sad that we have to use this way to gain our freedom

but TBH I couldn't hold myself at the beginning

التى تستخدمها لأول مرة فى المظاهرات للحماية من اعتداءات الأمن

For the what? First time?

[xAbd0o]

الشرطة تحاصر مقر«التجمع» بالعريش لمنع حضور مؤتمر يدعو لـ«مظاهرة 25 يناير»

فرضت قوات الأمن حصاراً أمنياً مشدداً على مقر حزب التجمع بمدينة العريش، كما قام أفراد الشرطة بمنع المواطنين من حضور المؤتمر الذى دعا إليه الحزب بمقره استعداداً للوقفة الاحتجاجية الثلاثاء.

كانت سيارات الشرطة وعدد كبير من أفراد الأمن بقيادة اللواء محمد نجيب، مدير أمن شمال سيناء، وعدد من قيادات الشرطة قد انتشروا فى محيط مقر الحزب.

من جانبه قال أشرف الحفني، منسق حزب التجمع «فوجئنا بقيادات الأمن تقوم بإرهاب المواطنين ومنعهم من حضور مؤتمر الحزب، كما كان العنف سمة التعامل مع كل من يقترب من المكان، ولكن ذلك لم يمنعنا من عقد المؤتمر الذى سنعلن فيه مشاركتنا فى وقفة الغضب ولن نوقف إجراءاتنا التصعيدية أمام هذه الممارسات غير المسؤولة من قبل الأمن».

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/%D...8A%D8%B1%C2%BB

[xAbd0o]

It's on, but doesn't sound good to me. very sad. they didn't even began get and they were shocked by the police! this isn't good not good at all!

[egypt69]

It's 3:40 am in Cairo right now, and Egyptians are soon going to wake up to a big day.


For a minute by minute coverage of the events that are about to take place, follow: http://twitter.com/#!/AlShaheeed


From EgyptianChronicles Blog:

The 25th Big Day

Here today is the 25th of January , the Police national day , after couple of hours supposedly insh Allah there will be huge protests across the country demanding specific political and social demands.

The news talk shows last night could not ignore the day and it showed nothing except that the regime is freaked out

The protests have not started but I will say that the day is successful “Insh Allah” because it showed how much the regime is scared from the people , the regime freaked out after knowing that thousands accepted the protest invitation online not even offline. Thanks to our Tunisian brothers our regime began to fear us more and more.

That scared regime is actually a weak one that has no confidence in itself , sooner or later it will fail.

Now it is 1:16 AM Cairo local time and there are rumors circulating the internet in a silly way.

More updates to come insh Allah to this post through out the day.

Before I forget please remember the real heroes of the Ismailia Police Force that stood with the people against the British occupation in the canal zone.

http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.c...h-big-day.html


Article from the TIMES:

Is Egypt About to Have a Facebook Revolution?

The Middle East is walking into an anxious week after a busy weekend, one that saw authoritarian regimes from Algeria to Yemen experience the ripple effect of the fall of Tunisia's President, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Large antigovernment demonstrations broke out in Jordan, Yemen and Algeria, while more men — particularly in Egypt and Algeria — have joined the ranks of self-immolators inspired by Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian whose suicide sparked that country's revolution. "What is very important about what happened in Tunisia, regardless of whether it spreads, is that it certainly raised a lot of hope among Egyptians and among other Arab people in different countries," explains Hassan Nafaa, a political-science professor at Cairo University and a vocal critic of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
(See the story of Mohammed Bouazizi, the man who set himself and Tunisia on fire.)

Beyond the wave of protests, that hope has found a voice in independent newspapers across the region and in new, audacious political demands made by opposition groups. In Jordan and Yemen, analysts say, verbal attacks by opposition groups show an unprecedented confidence and ferocity, including calls by Jordanian opposition members to have an elected Prime Minister and turn King Abdullah of Jordan's nominally constitutional monarchy into a real one.

(See why, even after Tunisia, Egypt may not be ready for its own revolution.)
On Facebook, more than 85,000 people have pledged to attend a nationwide antigovernment protest planned for Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Egypt. It's an effort that has so far been facilitated almost entirely online, and if even half that many people show up, it will be a historic day for Egyptian political activism under the Mubarak regime. The "Revolution Day" Facebook page presents a list of demands for Mubarak's nearly 30-year-old administration, ranging from raising the minimum wage to limiting presidential terms. "There are definitely interesting things that are happening. [Tunisia] has injected new energy in terms of the demands being articulated by opposition movements in the Middle East," says Kent State political scientist Joshua Stacher. But, Stacher clarifies, voicing a demand is different from seeing that demand realized.
(See how protests are shaking Yemen's leadership base.)

The Egyptian regime, to its credit, seems to be aware of that distinction — or at least the necessity of maintaining the status quo while allowing for a bit of steam to be blown off. Local media reported over the weekend that business owners had been told to keep their doors shut on Tuesday, and some members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood say they received warnings from state security against participating in the protests. Meanwhile, some of the organizing activists worry that their technique has been flawed from the start. "The first thing was fixing the dates and places," says 20-year-old activist Khaled Kamel of the main Facebook site, which lists four specific Cairo locations for the protest. "Because of that, security is going to be prepared."

As for social-network mobilization, observers say that Facebook is easier than word of mouth or cell-phone use for the government to monitor. Some say the strategy also makes events actually more of a free-for-all and less tactical as an instrument of dissent. "What we've seen time and time again is that this organizing on the Internet actually leads to more fragmentation," says Stacher. The government "will mobilize a great number of security forces," predicts Nafaa. "Security forces are very concentrated in a city like Cairo. It's easy for them to intercept the demonstrators."

Other analysts say that at least the region's governments seem worried — and that's a start. "The authorities were scared," says Nafaa; he adds that this has been reflected in the press and will be reflected in the streets tomorrow: "Not only did the official media emphasize [the bad side of] what's going on in Tunisia, but the government also tried to prevent any writing about similarities between the Tunisians and the Egyptian regime."

Egypt isn't the only regime that has sought to publicly distance its predicament from that of ill-fated President Ben Ali. "Yemen is not Tunisia," Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said at an annual military-security conference, according to the Yemen Observer, after a weekend that saw sometimes violent protests. He added, "I would ask for pardon from the people if I made mistakes or I fell short of my duties. Only God is perfect."

For Egypt, so far, the impact of Tunisia has been less tangible but still troubling to officials. The Egyptian stock market fell 8% last week, owing to investor fears of instability, the Minister of Trade and Commerce said Sunday. And local independent media reported that a government-backed group had started printing pro-Mubarak posters and T-shirts to counter Tuesday's protest.

The state news wire said over the weekend that the recent spate of suicides — many by self-immolation like Tunisia's Bouazizi — were due to personal problems, not the perpetrators' unemployment woes. And state newspapers were flooded with stories about the upcoming celebration of Egypt's police forces, a holiday that the Tuesday protest coincides with.

In a Sunday op-ed in Al-Ahram Weekly, Abdel Moneim Said, the state-appointed president of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, attributed the regional fallout from Tunisia to little more than "media sensationalism" and "groupthink" by Western think tanks obsessing over the "impending eruption of suppressed popular fury." But if all 85,000 Facebook attendees of tomorrow's "Revolution Day" actually show up, Said might have his theory put to the test.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...#ixzz1C0UtJyLD

[UAE_isthebest]

Guys I can't sleep!! I can't get my mind of tomorrow... I'm very angry and nervous. I've had a very good conversation with my father about how it is now in Egypt. My father called my family today. They are so angry etc. The food prices there are not acceptable! Nice good food is for the rich ones now! I'm so.. ARGH! yes angry!

[Montrealers]

Originally Posted by UAE_isthebest

Guys I can't sleep!! I can't get my mind of tomorrow... I'm very angry and nervous. I've had a very good conversation with my father about how it is now in Egypt. My father called my family today. They are so angry etc. The food prices there are not acceptable! Nice good food is for the rich ones now! I'm so.. ARGH! yes angry!

You're not the only one and i feel sad that i won't be in Egypt to support

[UAE_isthebest]

Me too.. It's like I feel a bit ashamed for myself. I'm sitting here as a 18 year old boy at my comfortable bedroom with Wi-Fi, TV etc.. But i know many of my follow Egyptian brothers & sisters are in crisis in Egypt God bless them!

[Montrealers]

Originally Posted by UAE_isthebest

Me too.. It's like I feel a bit ashamed for myself. I'm sitting here as a 18 year old boy at my comfortable bedroom with Wi-Fi, TV etc.. But i know many of my follow Egyptian brothers & sisters are in crisis in Egypt God bless them!

Ya rab.

[the_egyptian]

Let us hope for the best to happen.

[the_egyptian]

Security forces will arrest anyone who participates in the 25 January protests planned by Egypt's opposition movements in accordance with instructions given by Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, said Director of Security, Major General Ismail al-Shair, on Monday. The protests will coincide with Police Day.

Al-Shair warned that the Interior Ministry will deal with the protesters in a “firm and decisive” manner.

“Anyone attempting to express his opinion in an illegal or unlawful manner will be arrested,” he said.

He pointed out that political movements planning on joining the Tuesday protests, in what has been dubbed “The Day of Anger,” have been warned that they need to obtain permission from the Ministry before holding any protests.

He went on to say that if they fail to obtain said permission then “these protests and sit-ins will be dealt with in accordance to the law and anyone who commits an illegal or unlawful action will be arrested.”

Over 80,000 Egyptian users of the online networking site Facebook have confirmed they will be attending the nation-wide protests.

The event is associated in the minds of many with the Tunisian revolution that toppled an authoritarian regime.

Protest organizers in Egypt are demanding the dismissal of the Minister of Interior, who is being held responsible for human rights violations, including torture. The conduct of the police has been increasingly questioned since the Alexandria church bombing that claimed the lives of more than 20 people on New Year's Eve.

Egyptian activists have three additional demands: the restoration of a fair minimum wage, the end of the Emergency Law, and the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

Although administrative courts issued two rulings in 2010 in favor of a new minimum wage, judicial authorities have failed to specify what the wage should be.

And although political activism has been increasing in Egypt since 2005, activists and experts say the Tunisian uprising has given Egyptians hope and courage to move from talk to action, which some predict will start on 25 January. Some believe that Tunisia's uprising will change the face of political activism in Egypt.

With the Tunisian revolution in mind, many wonder what will happen on Tuesday and whether the protest will trigger massive change.

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كثفت قوات الأمن من تواجدها في مدينة المحلة الكبرى، وفرضت كردونات أمنية على جميع مداخل المدينة، تخوفا من حدوث احتجاجات عمالية يوم 25 يناير بعد أن وزعت القوى السياسية بيانات في المدينة تدعو فيها الأهالي للتظاهر والاعتصام يوم الثلاثاء، للمطالبة برفع الحد الأدنى للأجور، وإلغاء قانون الطوارئ.

وانتشرت دعوات التظاهر والاحتجاج في مظاهرات 25 يناير على جدران البنايات والمحال التجارية، كما وزع نشطاء منشورات تهاجم سياسات الحزب الوطني وتنتقد الرئيس مبارك وتصف سياساته بـ«الفاشلة». وانتشرت الكتابات الاحتجاجية بمنطقة مستشفى المحلة، فيما قامت قوات الشرطة بطمسها. وتناقل الأهالي رسائل قصيرة على الهواتف المحمولة تدعو للمشاركة في مظاهرات الثلاثاء.

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Only time would tell us the truth. What do you think ??

[xAbd0o]

It's on guys

Qena

[xAbd0o]

Live Feed by Al-Ahram.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/4773.aspx

[xAbd0o]

Live Cameras from here

http://bambuser.com/channel/waelabbas/broadcast/1354935

[xAbd0o]

Really Horrible guys, Police breakout into mosques why people praying in Alexandria O_O

[xAbd0o]

medan el ta7rer 12:30





what I love about those pics and videos is that they show the good parts of Egypt

[xAbd0o]

1:12 PM Ahram Online reporter witnesses a march by at least 2000 protesters heading from 26 July street to Galaa street in downtown Cairo.

[xAbd0o]

More Live Cam.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/content...B6%D8%A8%C2%BB

[MIBO]

Good luck Egypt! - a great country with great people which deserves better!

I just dream of an Egypt in which people will be able to hope and dream about the future

[xAbd0o]

Amen!

[xAbd0o]