The street is ours
5 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, November 13 at Monday, November 13, 2006.
Metro Cinema, Talaat Harb Street, 3pm Tuesday. If you are in Egypt, be there.
About the protest (English)
About the protest (Arabic)
If you want to try and imagine what those women experienced during Eid, then check out this video of a similar incident occurring in downtown Cairo (same location) back in January 2006....
About the protest (English)
About the protest (Arabic)
If you want to try and imagine what those women experienced during Eid, then check out this video of a similar incident occurring in downtown Cairo (same location) back in January 2006....
Its good to see such a movement existing in Egypt. I hope they succeed.
I second that. And am trying to understand why men do this and get away with it all the time.
Carissa, the lack of a functioning police/security force is one big reason. Egypt's streets are swarming with uniformed policemen and around every major building in downtown you will see black trucks jammed full of riot police. Unfortunately, all these police arent there to protect the safety of individuals, they are there to protect the government and ruling elite.
If 300 guys got together in Downtown on the first day of Eid and started chanting "down with Mubarak" there would have been a thousand riot police there to deal with the situation within minutes.....Unfortunately the security services place a much lower priority on dealing with reports of mass sexual assault....
I was there 2day it was awful. Hundreds of plain clothed officers prevented demonstrations in front of the cinema. Ppl tried 2 enter the cafe next door where every1 was gatherin but were stopped by the police. Some ppl had 2 climb through the window to get in. Itwas clear it was going 2 get violent and it did. The police watched and laughed verbally harassing women inside the cafe as they watched horrified at a woman being surrounded by 5 or 6 plain clothed police officers who dived on her and started to beat her up she was arrested along with another girl and a boy. I heard another person was arrested but I am not sure. And all of that 4 what? I won't go in to details but this just proves the point Egypt is not safe for women its not safe for any1. Wen will women get their rights? Wen the prime commiters of violence and harassment r the police and cental intelligence?
Been following it on blogs ... so sad and disappointing.