Army imposes curfew from 2:00 to 7:00
The Egyptian Ministry of Health: 24 dead in clashes between Copts and the army and police forces
Sunday 11 November 1432 - October 9, 2011 AD
Cairo - Randa Abul Azm, Mustafa Suleiman, Dubai - Arabic. Forums
The Ministry of Health of Egyptian high number of victims of clashes
between Copts, on the one hand, and the forces of the army and police on
the other hand, in the region of Maspero in central Cairo to 24 dead
and 213 wounded.
The official said Egyptian television late Sunday he was imposing a curfew in the downtown area of Cairo two in the morning to seven in the morning after bloody confrontations.
The news agency said the Middle East was decided that the curfew in the area of Tahrir Square and the streets leading to it starting at two in the morning until seven o'clock in the morning.
And includes the area covered by the ban radio and television building and the street leading to it, which has seen earlier in the day deadly clashes between Coptic protesters and security forces as well as to stretch the field Abbasid leading to the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.
The agency added that the Interior Ministry warns citizens to move in these areas so as not to be subjected to legal accountability.
According to the correspondent of the agency "AFP" The clashes broke out between hundreds of protesters Muslims and Copts on Sunday evening near a hospital in Cairo, during which the use of sticks and throwing stones.
The clashes took place near a hospital in the city center which handles infected Copts also includes the bodies of those killed in the earlier Sunday during clashes that followed a demonstration of the Copts in front of the state television.
The television quoted Hisham Shiha, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, the number of casualties on both sides rose to more than 140 people. The forces entered the military police to break up Tahrir Square protesters who tried to establish barricades in front of the entrances.
The clashes occurred when security forces confronted several hundred protesters Copts have their progress towards the radio and television building in central Cairo, trying to sit in front of him, it seems.
He said one of the eyewitnesses that the military police fired shots in the air to disperse the protesters, although some of them threw stones at them responded.
The clashes resulted in the occurrence of a number of injuries, could not be counted yet, and met with members of the military police, throwing stones at the Copts have launched a number of bullets in the air to no avail.
The official said Egyptian television late Sunday he was imposing a curfew in the downtown area of Cairo two in the morning to seven in the morning after bloody confrontations.
The news agency said the Middle East was decided that the curfew in the area of Tahrir Square and the streets leading to it starting at two in the morning until seven o'clock in the morning.
And includes the area covered by the ban radio and television building and the street leading to it, which has seen earlier in the day deadly clashes between Coptic protesters and security forces as well as to stretch the field Abbasid leading to the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.
The agency added that the Interior Ministry warns citizens to move in these areas so as not to be subjected to legal accountability.
According to the correspondent of the agency "AFP" The clashes broke out between hundreds of protesters Muslims and Copts on Sunday evening near a hospital in Cairo, during which the use of sticks and throwing stones.
The clashes took place near a hospital in the city center which handles infected Copts also includes the bodies of those killed in the earlier Sunday during clashes that followed a demonstration of the Copts in front of the state television.
The television quoted Hisham Shiha, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, the number of casualties on both sides rose to more than 140 people. The forces entered the military police to break up Tahrir Square protesters who tried to establish barricades in front of the entrances.
The clashes occurred when security forces confronted several hundred protesters Copts have their progress towards the radio and television building in central Cairo, trying to sit in front of him, it seems.
He said one of the eyewitnesses that the military police fired shots in the air to disperse the protesters, although some of them threw stones at them responded.
The clashes resulted in the occurrence of a number of injuries, could not be counted yet, and met with members of the military police, throwing stones at the Copts have launched a number of bullets in the air to no avail.
Some of the protesters armed with automatic weapons seized from army
vehicles after burning, as well as destroying public and private
property.
The demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at army vehicles and heard shots. People were seen coming from the area of Adventist to support the army.
The journalist said Samuel Ashaa, who participated in the demonstration, "Arab. Net" The thugs and remnants of the dissolved National Democratic Party, which is fired live bullets to prevent demonstrators from Copts express their anger.
Said Samuel Ashaa "The demonstrations began peacefully at the fifth evening Cairo time, and we began a march roamed the streets Galaa and Boulaq Abul-Ela parallel to the yard Maspero, and join us tens of thousands, including Muslims and Christians, but when we started to gather in front yard Maspero were surprised by military police fired in the air Military armored vehicles and haunt us until Abdel Moneim Riad Square, and now we are in front of the process of care provided between the soldiers of the Central Security police and military armored vehicles. "
Said Emad Gad, an expert at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said he saw "armored vehicles for the army run over protesters, and this war crime official by Field Marshal Tantawi, and a military council, and this is a crime against humanity must be prosecuted those responsible, and must be held accountable who issued the orders."
He said in a telephone intervention on the Nile News Channel: "These protesters peaceful, staged, was not one of the demonstrators carrying a weapon, but the army is boarded up, and Field Marshal must now go out to people and talking, this is a prelude to civil war."
Demonstrators chanted: "Muslim Christian Aid one", "Down Down with military rule," and "the people want the downfall of Field Marshal."
The demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at army vehicles and heard shots. People were seen coming from the area of Adventist to support the army.
The journalist said Samuel Ashaa, who participated in the demonstration, "Arab. Net" The thugs and remnants of the dissolved National Democratic Party, which is fired live bullets to prevent demonstrators from Copts express their anger.
Said Samuel Ashaa "The demonstrations began peacefully at the fifth evening Cairo time, and we began a march roamed the streets Galaa and Boulaq Abul-Ela parallel to the yard Maspero, and join us tens of thousands, including Muslims and Christians, but when we started to gather in front yard Maspero were surprised by military police fired in the air Military armored vehicles and haunt us until Abdel Moneim Riad Square, and now we are in front of the process of care provided between the soldiers of the Central Security police and military armored vehicles. "
Said Emad Gad, an expert at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said he saw "armored vehicles for the army run over protesters, and this war crime official by Field Marshal Tantawi, and a military council, and this is a crime against humanity must be prosecuted those responsible, and must be held accountable who issued the orders."
He said in a telephone intervention on the Nile News Channel: "These protesters peaceful, staged, was not one of the demonstrators carrying a weapon, but the army is boarded up, and Field Marshal must now go out to people and talking, this is a prelude to civil war."
Demonstrators chanted: "Muslim Christian Aid one", "Down Down with military rule," and "the people want the downfall of Field Marshal."
Demonstrations in Luxor and Assiut and Alexandria
Copts and closed by the province of Luxor President, but they opened
the road after the intervention of the governor and convince them that
their applications will connect to those responsible in Cairo, also held
demonstrations in front of the headquarters of the dissolved National
Democratic Party in the city of Assiut, while hundreds of Copts
demonstrated in front of the Library of Alexandria.
The present clashes in protest at what he says Copts It demolition of a church in the village Almarenab city of Edfu in Aswan by militants, and to demand the formation of a committee to investigate the facts and the arrest of the assailants, and to demand the resignation of the governor of Aswan, rebuild the church again at the expense of the government, and the issuance of a unified law for houses of worship.
However, the governor says they were not a church but a host, and that the incident of rigging some of the staff of the City Council Edfu behind extraction licenses restored church.
He held dozens of Copts in their march from Shubra to Maspero rotation coffins, and wore white clothes which he wrote the names of some of the victims of sectarian violence, amid slogans against the Governor of Aswan, where they burned the image to cheers of thousands of Copts chanting "void .. void."
Rose banners and crosses along the street Shoubra, where demonstrators called for the government to intervene to resolve the issues of the Copts.
Said Father Matthias Nasr, the spiritual father of the Maspero Youth Movement, said that the march reflects Egyptian citizens Christians, because they are part of this country, have full rights that have been ignored over the many years.
The present clashes in protest at what he says Copts It demolition of a church in the village Almarenab city of Edfu in Aswan by militants, and to demand the formation of a committee to investigate the facts and the arrest of the assailants, and to demand the resignation of the governor of Aswan, rebuild the church again at the expense of the government, and the issuance of a unified law for houses of worship.
However, the governor says they were not a church but a host, and that the incident of rigging some of the staff of the City Council Edfu behind extraction licenses restored church.
He held dozens of Copts in their march from Shubra to Maspero rotation coffins, and wore white clothes which he wrote the names of some of the victims of sectarian violence, amid slogans against the Governor of Aswan, where they burned the image to cheers of thousands of Copts chanting "void .. void."
Rose banners and crosses along the street Shoubra, where demonstrators called for the government to intervene to resolve the issues of the Copts.
Said Father Matthias Nasr, the spiritual father of the Maspero Youth Movement, said that the march reflects Egyptian citizens Christians, because they are part of this country, have full rights that have been ignored over the many years.
