| 5,987,942 |
30.00534 |
31.42722 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian police announced they had killed a gang of five Egyptian men they said specialized in kidnapping and robbing foreigners. The interior ministry announced that the gang was tied to the killing of an Italian PhD student. However, counter reports suggest the men were unarmed and tried to flee as police fired on them, and that afterward police confiscated footage from security cameras near the scene. The men's relatives say they were house painters merely heading to a job in the Fifth Settlement suburb. |
| 5,987,946 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Eight lawyers received arrest warrants for protesting without a permit in front of the Lawyers Syndicate on 23 April. |
| 5,988,037 |
-1.01729 |
35.103588 |
Kenya |
|
A group of residents in Emurua Dikirr Constituency protest outside the Ward Administrator's office over the poor state of the roads which led to a number of local deaths. Another group launches a counter protest at the same location and accuses the demonstrators of illegal protest and undermining the county leadership. There is no reports of violence between the two groups. |
| 5,988,736 |
12.255667 |
22.981617 |
Sudan |
|
2 killed when unexploded ordnance detonated at El Aradieba El Ashara. |
| 5,987,951 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Around 50 Egyptian police stormed the headquarters of the journalists' association in central Cairo on 1 May and arrested two journalists who had started a sit-in in protest at the headquarters of the union. Hundreds of workers from several provinces who came to hold a protest in Cairo for International Workers' Day were also prevented from assembling by police. Tadamon coalition announced aprotestwould take place at the Press Syndicate's headquarters in Cairo's downtown to denounce legislation drafted by the government which it considers to be "anti-worker". Aswat Masriya reported that the security personnel assaulted the syndicate's two people tasked with securing the syndicate's building. |
| 5,987,955 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Journalists announced starting a sit-in at the syndicate's headquarters in Cairo inprotestto the security forces' storming the syndicate's building and "kidnapping two colleagues", on 1 May. |
| 5,987,959 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Egypt'sjournalists' union called for the dismissal of the interior minister and launched an open-ended sit-in at its headquarters in downtown Cairo on 2 May, protesting the detention of two journalists on its premises the previous night. |
| 5,987,963 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
|
Medical sources in North Sinai said on 3 May that the security forces killed three militants and wounded four others in ashoot-out between a security detail and a group of gunmen that opened fire at a military checkpoint near Al -Arish. The source added that three soldiers were hurt in the attack and were taken to Al-Arish hospital. |
| 5,987,967 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
|
A soldier was killed by an IED that targeted his armored vehicle that was accompanying a water supplement convoy sent to security checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid on 3 May. Security forces also detonated three [Improvised Explosive Device] IEDs in an operation near Al-Shaykh Zuwayd and Rafah. |
| 5,987,971 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Some 200 people gathered outside the Journalists' Syndicate building on 3 May, chanting slogans such as "journalists are not terrorists" - a reference to terrorism charges some media workers now face inEgypt. To commemorate World Press Freedom Day, several journalists covered their mouths with gags and bound their hands to protest Egypt's media restrictions, while others hung a black banner from the building's facade. |
