| 5,562,522 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
On October 9, during the dispersal by military police and riot police of a protest of Coptic Christians in front of the state TV building in Cairo, at least two military vehicles ran over and killed 13 protesters and a further 24 were killed by live ammunition. |
| 5,562,528 |
24.03685 |
32.91078 |
Egypt |
|
In October immigration officials forcibly deported three Eritreans. Prison officials in Shallal gave Eritrean embassy officials access to 118 detained Eritrean men who were asylum seekers and beat them to force them to sign paperwork agreeing to return to Eritrea. |
| 5,562,532 |
27.25289 |
33.81811 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian policemen stormed a security building, as 3,000+ went on strike nationwide to demand the "cleansing" of their institution and better pay. The protest lasts for two days. |
| 5,562,537 |
30.04442 |
31.2357 |
Egypt |
|
Protesters clashed with soldiers and police in Cairo after a funeral procession for a man a rights group claims died from police torture after he was caught smuggling a mobile phone chip into his cell. Dozens of protesters hurled stones at soldiers and police after relatives of Essam Atta brought his coffined body to Tahrir Square. No report of injuries or causalities. |
| 5,562,540 |
30.04442 |
31.2357 |
Egypt |
|
Several thousand protesters in Cairo called on the ruling military on Friday to promptly transfer power to a civilian government and exclude old regime figures from politics. The group chanted "down with the military" and called on the ruling generals to "return to the barracks." The uprising was sparked in part by calls from activists on a Facebook page initially set up to protest that death of another young man, Khaled Said, after a beating by police. |
| 5,562,544 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Police arrest and detain a civil rights activist, sparking a protest. |
| 5,562,547 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
More than 3,000 Egyptians marched through downtown Cairo, protesting the military's arrest of a prominent blogger-activist. The military says he is suspected of inciting Christian protesters to attack soldiers during an October 9th demo. |
| 5,562,550 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
|
An Egyptian pipeline sending gas to Israel and Jordan was hit by an explosion in North Sinai Governorate. The pipeline had already been attacked six times since February. |
| 5,562,554 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Thousands marched from the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbaseya to Tahrir Square on Friday, in memory of the 27 killed in the October 9th crackdown on the Maspero protest. |
| 5,562,558 |
31.41648 |
31.81332 |
Egypt |
|
Environmental protesters gather to denounce a fertilizer plant. One person is killed and 11 wounded when police move in to disperse them. Two other civilians killed. |
