Egypt Live Blog

[AFP]

Al Jazeera staff and correspondents update you on important developments in Egypt.

Al Jazeera is not responsible for content derived from external sites.

12 hours 56 min ago - Cairo

Thousands of people attended the campiagn event of Egyptian election candidate, Mohamed Morsi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, in Abdeen Square, downtown Cairo [Al Jazeera/MATTHEW CASSEL]

Tags egypt, Egypt election, mohammed morsi
12 hours 58 min ago - Cairo

justimageMuslim Brotherhood event for Morsi is insanely well organized. #egyptSun May 20 18:29:15 2012
Tags egypt, Egypt election, Muslim Brotherhood
13 hours 1 min ago - Cairo

evanchillI've only been in Cairo, but there's a notable anti-Brotherhood sentiment here cutting across economic, religious, neighborhood lines.Sun May 20 19:07:58 2012
Tags egypt, Egypt elections, Muslim Brotherhood
18 hours 6 min ago - Cairo

justimageWhile talking to Khaled Ali he took a "no to military rule" sticker and slapped it on his suit. One less question I had to ask him. #egyptSun May 20 15:36:34 2012
Tags egypt, Egypt election, Mattew Cassel
18 hours 24 min ago - Cairo

An Egypt presidential candidate has joined dozens of activists on hunger strike to protest the continued detention of more than 300 people who face possible military prosecution.

Khaled Ali, a 40-year-old lawyer who represents to many the face of the youth movement that led the protests that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year, said Sunday he is joining the 24-hour strike.

Military trials of more than 11,000 civilians have complicated relations between revolutionary groups and the ruling generals who took over from Mubarak.

The more than 300 detainees were arrested following a violent protest on May 4 outside the Defence Ministry in which one soldier died.

Activists say some have already begun an open-ended hunger strike.

Egypt's presidential elections will take place on May 23-24. 

[Source:AP]

Tags egypt, Egypt elections, Khaled Ali
18 hours 48 min ago - Abbassia

Khaled Ali, a prominent human rights lawyer, holds a rally for detained protesters, outside Egypt’s press syndicate [Al Jazeera/MATTHEW CASSEL]

Associated Press reports that Ali has joined a 24-hour hunger strike to protest the continued detention of more than 300 people who face possible military prosecution. 
Tags egypt, Egypt elections, Khaled Ali
19 hours 6 min ago - Cairo

Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy makes a tour through downtown Cairo on the final day of campaigning ahead of Egypt’s first free presidential elections [Source: Al Jazeera/EVAN HILL]
Tags egypt, Egypt elections, Hamdeen Sabahy
19 hours 14 min ago - Cairo

Al Jazeera's Evan Hill reporting from Cairo, has tweeted the following photograph of crowds gathering to see Hamdeen Sabahy.  

Evan Hill can be followed on twitter on @evanchill.

He is joined by Al Jazeera's Matthew Cassel, whose tweets can be followed on @justimage.

Tags egypt, election, Hamdeen Sabahy
1 day 2 hours ago - Egypt Elections

File 71431

An image by Mabrouk Hamdy circulating on social network Facebook says: What do you say about someone that used to say during the revolution that Hosni Mubarak is good, the issue is with the people around him.

In the second image of presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafik the caption says: and after the revolution same person votes for the people that he [Mubarak] surrounded himself with.

Tags Ahmed Shafik, egypt, Hosni Mubarak
1 day 3 hours ago - Egypt

File 71411

No Military Trials for Civilians group in Egypt  have called on people to join the 24 hunger strike in solidarity with Abbaseya detainees with this statment below:

Since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) took over last year, thousands of Egyptians have been subjected to military trials and unjustly imprisoned. Military trials have been used by the military regime to subdue both the revolution and the people of Egypt. 

Most recently, and in the wake of events in Abbaseya, hundreds of Egyptian civilians were arrested and referred to military courts, despite repeated promises by SCAF to end military trials once and for all, promises that they have broken again, and again
.
Rejecting their presence before a military tribunal, the detainees from Abbaseya have announced that they will go into an open-ended hunger strike starting on the 20th of May. Of those detainees, fourteen have already commenced their strike. 

The demands of the hunger strike are as follows

1. The immediate and unconditional release of all detainees 
2. An absolute end to military trials for civilians

It is vital for the detainees to know how much support there is for their cause. It is equally vital that SCAF realize the scale of opposition to military trials

Here is what you can do to help

1. Join in a one day hunger strike and hold a demonstration in front of your embassy on the 20th of May at 2:00 PM

Declare your solidarity and hunger strikes online. Take photos and videos of the demonstrations, and share them as much as you can on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #NMTGlobal

No Military Trials for Civilians

Tags #MODHunger, #NMTGlobal, Abbassiya, hunger strike

Al Jazeera Live

What's Hot


Recent Comments

This work is licensed under Creative Commons. Please read our attribution policy.