Tahrir Square Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tahrir-square/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 20 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tahrir Square Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tahrir-square/ 32 32 Egyptian security forces respond quickly and muscularly to protests calling for the fall of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/egyptian-security-forces-respond-quickly-and-muscularly-to-protests-calling-for-the-fall-of-president-abdel-fattah-el-sisi/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/egyptian-security-forces-respond-quickly-and-muscularly-to-protests-calling-for-the-fall-of-president-abdel-fattah-el-sisi/ Egyptian security forces have responded  quickly and muscularly to quell demonstrations calling for the fall of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. They used teargas to disperse protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, site of the mass demonstrations eight years ago that forces President Hosni Mubarak from power.  Protests have become rare event since the military coup […]

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]]> Egyptian security forces have responded  quickly and muscularly to quell demonstrations calling for the fall of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

They used teargas to disperse protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, site of the mass demonstrations eight years ago that forces President Hosni Mubarak from power. 

Protests have become rare event since the military coup that ousted President Mohamed Moursi in 2013.

Yesterday’s demonstrations in various centers across Egypt were quickly broken up.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the former military chief who took power after the coup, has cracked down on the media and opposition.

Hundreds of protestors were arrested yesterday and taken off in armoured military vehicles.

This is a tense time both for Sisi and the Egyptian people.

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