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Daily Mail
Twenty-two die in riots after Egyptian court sentences 21 to death for football violence which killed 74 fans
- Families of those sentenced tried to storm jail in Port Said to free prisoners
- More than 200 people were also injured, state television reported
- Violence broke out during match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly last February
- The riot in Port Said was the worst football-related violence in 15 years
- Another 52 defendants are due to be sentenced at a later date
- Former supporters of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have been blamed for instigating riot
PUBLISHED: 05:06 EST, 26 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:18 EST, 26 January 2013
An Egyptian court today sentenced 21 people to death after they were involved in a riot following a football match in which 74 people were killed.
The controversial verdict prompted further bloodshed, as 22 people were killed during reactionary riots outside the Mediterranean city of Port Said’s main jail today.
Angry relatives of those sentenced tried to storm the prison to free the defendants, shooting dead two police officers, according to reports.
Egyptian security officials said the military had been deployed to the city, where most of those sentenced are from, as police became embroiled in violent clashes with protestors.
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Decision: Egyptian fans of Al-Ahly club, one of the clubs involved in the violence last year, celebrate as 21 people were sentenced to death for their part in the violence
Videos below
1. (google translation)
Alternative Trshehad moment the verdict in the case of martyrs Alaoltras Port in front of the club Ahli and Oltras ceremonies after death sentence 21 of the perpetrators of the massacre Port Said Stadium and slogans against Port
Photo by Ahmed Farouk Mohammed Anwar montages Socialtext Media Hala Ahmed
2. Protestors burn trees and tires. (Might be a good time to set up a rubber tree plantation just outside of Egypt)
3. People looting government offices for some reason.
For more, please check the comments on any of the posts about Egypt. Martin will have placed the best material he can find, and that is typically the best material, in the comments.
What all the rioting is about.
H/T Magic Martin
The National Salvation Front, which has earlier announced its intention to hold a sit-in, released a press statement listing the sit-in’s demands:
1. Handing over power to a national salvation government, representing the diversity of Egyptians.
2. Annulling the “sectarian and invalid” constitution, and the reformation of a new constituent assembly that shall draft a new constitutional to fulfill the aspirations and goals of the revolution.
3. The immediate calling for early presidential elections.
4. Dissolving the “invalid” Shura Council, and cancelling any laws it had issued.
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In Damanhour
The muslim brotherhood headquaters are burning … :
Clashes in Cairo try to bring down the wall built to protect ministry of the interior
I have a feeling that in the not too distant future, rioting may become Egypt’s #1 export.
H/T Magic Martin
Attempts by demonstrators to storm the wall leading to the Ministry of the Interior Sheikh Rihan Street and exchange of stone-throwing between police and demonstrators
What are they digging up here and why? Is it city infrastructure in order to hurl it at other people?
Tire tire burning bright, won’t you block the roads tonight
Some quality and experienced rioting on Egyptian city streets today
Things you don’t hear in Cairo in 2013:
“Hey let’s go downtown for a cup of coffee and a quiet meal of goat’
‘It’s OK honey, you can leave the riot gear at home today’
‘Hey Ramzey, wearing a bucket on your head is a sign of insanity’
‘I think we should take the convertible today’
‘What, do you think it will rain rocks or something?’
(Vid find courtesy of Magic Martin)
More burning and rioting in Egypt. But by who and for what?
Magic Martin sends these clips in, uploaded today from Egypt. But what are they? In this top clip there appears to be a fire on the roof of a mosque.
THe google translation of the one below is interesting, but not helpful
This one is clear. Thanks again to Martin:
RIOTS in EGYPT – 110 hurt
Live Updates: Protests, clashes all over the country on revolution’s anniversary
Scores of protesters chant against the regime during January 25 rallies; clashes between demonstrators and security continue in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez as violence erupts Ismailia and Mahalla
20:10 Ahram Online’s Osman El-Sharnoubi says traffic on Cairo’s Sixth October Bridge is completely stalled as protesters placed barricades on both sides, forcing vehicles to turn around and drive on the wrong side of the road to get off the bridge. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters marched towards the state television building Maspero (10 minutes by foot from Tahrir) on the same bridge, while chanting against the incumbent regime and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Many marchers are talking about the teargas the police have been repeatedly using to disperse the crowds today. Mohamed Shabaan from the Egyptian Current told Ahram Online: “It’s the first time we have experienced this type of gas; it’s not visible.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters are chanting against Morsi and the Brotherhood in front of the state television building in Maspero, while police forces try to disperse them with teargas.
Muslims attack Christians in Egypt
Christian Today:
Thousands of Muslims from Marashda and surrounding villages attacked eight Coptic homes and businesses, including five pharmacies, which were looted and torched. Coptic-owned cars were also torched.
According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih of the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), the attacks were caused by rumors that a 55-year-old Coptic man, Nader Masoud, sexually assaulted a 6-year-old Muslim girl.
The attacks on the village, which has a mostly Christian population, started with several Coptic businesses being torched and the Church of Abu Fam having its cross demolished and glass smashed.
AINA reported that Anba Kyrollos, Bishop of Nag Hammadi, said a medical check of the Muslim girl proved her “virginity,” but the attacks “took place after the Muslims knew of the medical verdict and the sexual assault was only a rumor.”
Bishop Kyrollos said Masoud turned himself in to police for his own safety. …
More footage of the demonstration in front of the courthouse in Alexandria
H/T Magic Martin
Kinda reminds me of this:
Riot police and protesters clash in Egypt
H/T Magic Martin
Boston Globe:
As ex security chief faces trial, violence erupts
By Aya Batrawy
| Associated Press January 20, 2013
AHMED RAMADAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Near an Alexandria, Egypt, courthouse, demonstrators threw rocks as police used tear gas to quell the protests.
CAIRO — Riot police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse dozens of demonstrators throwing rocks outside an Alexandria courthouse where the city’s former security director and other officers are on trial for killing protesters during Egypt’s 2011 uprising.
The confrontation comes a week before the country marks the second anniversary of the revolt that ousted longtime autocratic ruler, Hosni Mubarak, and highlights the frustration expressed by many about the pace of reform.
Alexandria’s former security director Mohammed Ibrahim is on trial along with five police officers accused of using excessive violence to put down the 18-day revolt. In Alexandria, as elsewhere in Egypt, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets during the past two years to demand ‘‘qisas’’ — Arabic for retribution — for those killed in clashes with security forces.
Massive protests in Alexandria. This is current and ongoing. And large.
H/T Magic Martin
The president of Egypt (Mursi) opposed to the military intervention in Mali
An original translation by Bear
H/T Magic Martin
From Romandie:
Ryad -The Egyptien President Mohamed Morsi has declared himself oposed to the military intervention led by France in Mali during a speech during the opening of an Arabic economic summit at Ryad.
“All intervention must be passive. We will not accept in any case the military intervention in Mali (…) which is of the nature of feeding conflict in the region,” declared the chief of state in front of his Arab peers.
“We do not want to have created a new home for bloody conflicts in Africa,” continued the Egyptien chief of state coming from the muslim brotherhood.?? Mr. Morsi has, however, declared solidarity with Algeria, theatre of bloody hostage taking led by a islamist commando from Mali. Algeria has authorized fly overs of it’s territory by french military planes going to Mali.
France has started, a week ago, a military intervention to aid the Malian army to stop the advance towards the south, under govermental control, Jihadist groups that are armed that occupy the north of Mali for more than 9 months.
The French army and Malian soldiers have entered Diabali on Monday and Douentza, two cities that were under islamist control, tracking and persuing the tracks of combatants linked to Al-Qaïda.
More Magic Martin Muslim-Mayhem movies in The Maghreb
And every-time an Egyptian posts to youtube, a tour-guide loses his living:
Thanks Martin
Alexandria Last night
Part of Courthouse Burnt in Egypt Clashes
H/T Magic Martin:
ABC News:
A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt’s northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, according to witnesses.
The blaze destroyed part of the building, burning some files. A security official said unidentified assailants were responsible.
This was the second straight day of clashes there ahead of the two-year anniversary of Egypt’s uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak.
Young men threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas, outside the courthouse where six senior police officers were on trial for deaths of protesters during the nation’s 2011 uprising.
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Meanwhile, today in Egypt:
Come visit Egypt! Its a RIOT!
Magic Martin just sent this riot video from Alexandria from yesterday and my first thought was, “Hey! I recognize this street from last month’s riot videos!
Thanks to Islam, one can now learn to recognize many of the worlds major streets in exotic cities just from watching the constant stream of riot footage that comes out of these places on YT.
Meanwhile, I’m not sure yet what this riot is about but the beach looks like it could be really nice. Let’s hope someone sends a shot that includes the waves breaking on the sand.
Egypt: Death toll rises to 5 in clashes outside police station
H/T Magic Martin
Xinhuanet:
CAIRO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — The death toll rose to five in clashes between police officers and relatives of a murdered citizen outside a police station in Egypt’s Qalioubiya Governorate with 12 others injured, Health Ministry spokesman Ahmed Omar told Xinhua on Sunday.
Omar added that three bodies were kept at the morgue of Nasser Hospital and the other two were received by their families.
The 12 injured people were taken to nearby Bahteem and Nasser hospitals.
Egyptians protest France, spew Jew-hatred
H/T Magic Martin
Daily Star:
Brother of Al-Qaeda chief at Cairo anti-France demo
January 18, 2013 05:43 PM (Last updated: January 18, 2013 07:08 PM)
A protester sits in front of Egyptian security guards during a protest against the French operation in Mali outside the French embassy in Cairo January 18, 2013. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
CAIRO: The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri joined dozens of Egyptian Islamists in a protest Friday near the French embassy in Cairo against French intervention in Mali.
Mohammed al-Zawahiri took part in the demonstration during which protesters accused Paris of being “at war against Islam”.
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