| 5,564,471 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Protesters gather outside the Saudi embassy to demand the release of an Egyptian lawyer who has been sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes by the General Court of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Security scuffled with protesters and media outside the Saudi Embassy in Cairo where protesters had gathered. |
| 5,564,475 |
31.1981 |
29.9192 |
Egypt |
|
Scuffles ensued on Tuesday between protesters and security forces in Alexandria's railway station after protesters cut off the railway line following the tragic Bardashin train accident that happened overnight. The security forces fired teargas to disperse the protesters following the injury of three central security officers during the scuffles. |
| 5,564,478 |
29.07441 |
31.09785 |
Egypt |
|
Beni Suef's Criminal Court acquitted General Ahmed Shawqi and 10 of his aides on Tuesday from charges of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak |
| 5,564,482 |
29.30995 |
30.8418 |
Egypt |
|
A building in a village south west of Cairo housing a reception hall and nursery was destroyed on Wednesday January 16 by a mob following a rumour that it was a church. Extremists armed with hammers axes and old electricity poles descended on the building in Fanous Village, Tamia District, Fayoum Province, and razed the structure to the ground. |
| 5,564,485 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
A protest led by women from the families of football fans who were killed in the Port Said killing took place on Friday, demanding those responsible for the killing be held accountable. |
| 5,564,490 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of Egyptian Islamists on Friday protested outside the French embassy building in Cairo against France's recent military interference in Mali. |
| 5,564,495 |
26.1 |
32.46667 |
Egypt |
|
Police in Egypt clashed on Friday with a crowd of furious Muslims who tried to storm a church after claiming a Coptic man was involved in an case of child abuse. Dozens of Muslims went on the rampage in the southern city of Qena, destroying two Coptic-owned shops and then marching on the church in a bid to storm it before police fired tear gas to disperse them. |
| 5,564,498 |
30.0667 |
31.2167 |
Egypt |
|
Thousands of supporters of Al-Ahly club demonstrated in Cairo on Friday to demand severe punishments for 75 people on trial for dozens of deaths in Egypt's worst football disaster. Al-Ahly supporters marched from the club's Cairo headquarters to Tahrir Square, with many protesters chanting slogans hostile to Mubarak's successor, Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. |
| 5,564,503 |
30.08505 |
31.23867 |
Egypt |
|
Five people were killed overnight Sunday in a northern Cairo district as clashes erupted after a police officer accidentally killed a man while chasing a drug dealer. The clashes broke out outside a police station in the Shubra el-Kheima district when relatives and neighbours of the dead man gathered and then attacked the police with guns and Molotov cocktails. |
| 5,564,507 |
31.1981 |
29.9192 |
Egypt |
|
Riot police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse dozens of demonstrators throwing rocks outside an Alexandria courthouse where the city's ex-security director and other officers are on trial for thekilling of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising. |
