5,986,554 |
26.55 |
31.7 |
Egypt |
|
Several demonstrations broke out on Monday in Alexandria, Ismailiya, Damietta, Menufiya, and Sohag, which were met with a strict security clampdown. |
5,986,559 |
30.58768 |
31.502 |
Egypt |
|
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, reported on 25 April, the beginning of severalprotestsin the governorates of Sharqeya, Daqahliya, and Kafr El-Sheikh. The protests in Sharqeya and Daqahliya were reportedly met with a strict security clampdown. |
5,986,564 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
On 25 April, security forces detained at least 17 journalists in downtown Cairo, while others were assaulted, when military and police conducted sweeps to detain potential demonstrators and to close streets leading to the site of a planned protest at the Journalists' Syndicate. The streetprotests demonstratedagainst a deal handing control of two Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia. |
5,986,568 |
31.2878 |
34.2369 |
Egypt |
|
"Some have been killed in anattackby armed men against an Egyptian army force off the coast of Rafah [in North Sinai]". No more information given. |
5,986,572 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
On 26 April, some two dozen journalists gathered outside the Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo toprotest against the detention of journalists the previous day - 11 were arrested and later released - and what they called the police siege of the syndicate. |
5,986,577 |
30.03513 |
31.21399 |
Egypt |
|
Two lawyers were assaulted by officers from Dokki police station. Police forces also fired teargas at lawyers waiting outside a Cairo police station at about 10 pm on 25 April, after the station chief yelled at them to leave. The lawyers had been prevented from attending investigations with those who were detained during the protests. |
5,986,581 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
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A roadsidebombin the North Sinai town of El-Arish killed three Egyptian police conscripts on 27 April. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. |
5,986,584 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Pensionersprotestagainst social solidarity minister, threaten to go on hunger strikes. |
5,986,688 |
32.76704 |
22.63669 |
Libya |
|
Residents in Derna took to the streets on 29 April to protest continuing airstrikes in the town by the Libyan National Army (LNA). Burning an Italian flag, they condemned too what they said was Italian and UN interference in Libya. |
5,986,588 |
30.11891 |
31.34045 |
Egypt |
|
A police officer injured a microbus driver after firing a shot at his leg following an altercation over the traffic. The police captain had a brawl with the driver in Alf Maskan neighborhood in eastern Cairo on 27 April. In an official statement, the ministry said a group of drivers interfered in the dispute and then assaulted and injured the police officer, which led to the officer pulling out his weapon against the microbus driver. |