Egyptian activists rally against the government

Tribune-Review ^ | May 7,2006 | Betsy Hiel & Salena Zito

[NorthEasterner]

Egyptian activists rally against the government

By Betsy Hiel TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 7, 2006

CAIRO -- A day after Egypt's parliament extended a widely-reviled emergency law, several dozen political activists tried to protest against the government. The protest lasted a minute.

Hundreds of truncheon-swinging riot police, plainclothes officers and swarms of street thugs attacked the demonstrators outside the Nasr Party headquarters downtown, pushing them inside the building or chasing them down the street.

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Under threat of imprisonment, Americans are forced to pay $2 billion a year to line the pockets of the corrupt and criminal Government of Egypt. And we wonder why many Egyptions have a dim view of the US...

Another story on a blogger who was imprisoned.





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