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While police arrested 111 protestors in Tahrir square, the civilians fought back with stones and even knives.
Coptic activists are against turning the Egyptian Revolution into a religious issue for Islamists took over Tahrir Square last Friday, during a protest. There were no agreements among different political groups before the protests.
Al-Jama´a al-Islamiya is against the use of religious slogans in Tahrir Square during protests, because doing so may violate the will of people.
*/ People sat in Tahrīr Square to attend the religious ceremony of Sha'bān 15. The ceremony included both Christian and Muslim prayers and sermons and it became very busy when Shaykh Abd Allāh al-Sharqāwī gave a speech which grabbed the "admiration and praise" of the audience. There was...
Dr. 'Isām Sharaf handed down a mandate calling for the removal of up to 120 officers, including 15 Major Generals, alleged to be responsible for the deaths of demonstrators during the January 25 revolution.
*/ Priest Philopater Jamīl, a member of the Maspero Youth Union, has said that the Union has participated in the Tahrīr Square protests and had two tents set up: one for members to congregate in; and one in case of medical emergency.  
Central Security Forces (CSF) used live ammunition as well as illegal quantities of tear gas, rubber bullets and buckshot during clashes that erupted in Tahrir Square on 28 and 29 June, according to a report by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
“Take to the streets on July 8, the revolution is still on,” reads graffiti on Qasr al-Nil street a few miles away from Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 25 January Revolution. This graffiti attests to the disillusionment as well as the frustration of many Egyptians with the course taken by the...
 Clashes between protesters and security forces in and around Tahrir Square this week gave activists a sobering reminder that the Ministry of Interior has yet to change one of the more troubling departments under its auspices, Central Security Forces (CSF), or the riot police.
Watanī publishes the response of the Ministry of Interior over incidents of young Coptic girls disappearing. Watanī asserts that the letter from the ministry contradicts the actual incidents and tries to cover the ministry’s incapacity to determine the exact facts and locations of the victims.
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