| 5,565,222 |
31.1981 |
29.9192 |
Egypt |
|
Police arrested 16 Faragalla factory workers in Alexandria on Saturday on charges of inciting strikes, disrupting work, and assaulting employees in the workplace using cold weapons.Farag Amer accused them of causing the three-day long strike that shut down the factory. |
| 5,565,225 |
31.25654 |
32.28412 |
Egypt |
|
A general strike in the canal city of Port Said, meanwhile, entered its second week on Sunday, with most shops and factories closed down. Protesters in the Mediterranean city have entered the eighth day of civil disobedience on 24 February. Demonstrators block all roads and railway traffic, cut off all transportation from and to the coastal city. |
| 5,565,228 |
30.00808 |
31.21093 |
Egypt |
|
In Giza, protesters gathered on Sunday night in front of the governorate building blocking Al-Haram Street and calling for civil disobedience. |
| 5,565,231 |
31.1143 |
30.94012 |
Egypt |
|
In the northern city of Kafr el-Sheikh, hundreds of quarry workers stormed the governorate headquarters to protest against working conditions and forced employees out of the building, chanting against governor Saad al-Husseini, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| 5,565,234 |
30.9761 |
31.1669 |
Egypt |
|
Mahalla trains resumed service on Sunday after protesters blocked the city's railways for almost an hour, in an attempt to implement civil disobedience in the city. |
| 5,565,237 |
30.04442 |
31.2357 |
Egypt |
|
Protesters on Sunday blocked the doors to Cairo's main administrative building as part of a growing campaign of civil disobedience around the country against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.A group of protesters closed the doors of the Mugamma, a massive labyrinth of bureaucratic offices on the edge of Tahrir Square, leaving only a side exit for employees to leave, employees told AFP |
| 5,565,240 |
29.07441 |
31.09785 |
Egypt |
|
Thousands of brick workers blocked railroad tracks from a southern city to Cairo for a second day Sunday to protest rising industrial oil prices, causing the cancellation of some services, security officials said. |
| 5,565,244 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
An HSBC bank branch manager was beaten by a group of military officers following an argument between bank employees and an officer on Sunday. |
| 5,565,248 |
29.95072 |
31.27738 |
Egypt |
|
Four political prisoners held in the Tura Reception facility have begun a hunger strike in protest over conditions in the prison and poor treatment at the hands of guards, according to prisoners' families.all four prisoners had been placed under 23 hour lockdown in one cell located within the facility's al-Dawai prison block. Units in this block are 2 square metres in size, and have no ventilation or access to water.Inmates also experienced verbal abuse at the hands of police and guards, according to Alam. |
| 5,565,252 |
30.12511 |
31.25053 |
Egypt |
|
A church in Shubra Al-Kheima was surrounded on Monday evening amid attempts to carry out legal reconstruction of the building.Abu Makkar church was in the process of constructing an annex for the building when Salafis surrounded the premises in an effort to halt work on the new addition. |
