| 5,563,030 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
A photographer sustained an upper jaw fracture and a split upper lip when she was hit full in the face by a stone thrown by demonstrators |
| 5,563,034 |
31.03917 |
30.46914 |
Egypt |
|
23 reporters subject to violence, one was shot in the back but survived |
| 5,563,038 |
30.07363 |
31.27576 |
Egypt |
|
Abdul-Rahman Youssef, a contributor to the human rights website hoqook.com, was attacked by a man armed with a knife. |
| 5,563,042 |
30.06907 |
31.27626 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry inclashesthat left one soldier and two journalists dead and around 373 people injured [CNN Wire]. Egypt's military rulers on Saturday imposed an overnight curfew and deployed soldiers around the Defence Ministry (Reuters). |
| 5,563,045 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Protest outside press syndicate, Egyptian reporters demand release of detained fellow journalists. |
| 5,563,049 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
HRW claims that Egyptian soldiers beat and tortured protesters they had arrested at a demonstration near the Defence Ministry this month. The soldiers arrested at least 350 protesters, including 10 children and 16 women, on May 4 amid violence over a sit-in begun a week earlier in protest at the exclusion from Egypt's presidential race of Hazem Abu Ismail. |
| 5,563,052 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo to protest the ruling military council's continued use of military courts to try civilians. |
| 5,563,056 |
30.00808 |
31.21093 |
Egypt |
|
Sudanese citizens and Darfuri refugees rallied in front of the UN High Commissioner for refugees in Cairo |
| 5,563,061 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
A policeman was shot dead outside a polling station in Cairo in a gunfight between rival supporters of political candidates. One man was injured. |
| 5,563,064 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Protesters threw stones and shoes at Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq |
