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107 | 2012-07-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/offside-egypt-s-transitional-politics-shows-football-red-card | On 30 June, President Mohamed Morsy was attending a ceremony organized by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces at the Central Military Area, also known as Hike Step, to celebrate the handover of power to Egypt's elected leader. At roughly the same time, Egypt's national football team was playing against the Central ... |
108 | 2012-07-19 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-clashes-outside-syrian-embassy | Some 300 Syrian and Egyptian activists clashed with Central Security Forces on Wednesday evening, after their attempt to raise the flag of the Syrian revolution over the embassy in Cairo was met with birdshot fire and tear gas. Barrages of stones were exchanged, injuring dozens as a six-hour long street battle was wage... |
109 | 2012-08-01 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/patron-saints | Egypt's revolution was leaderless, but not everyone got the memo. Today legions gravitate towards one notable or another, one visionary or another, one sheikh or another, one demagogue or another. There are those who self-describe as "Hazemoon," the followers of Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, and those who consider the... |
110 | 2012-08-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/eight-military-prisoners-pardoned-suez | Eight individuals who were arrested in front of the Suez Police Department while protesting against the Abbasseya clashes googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); were pardoned on Thursday, said the Suez Freedom and Justice Party secretary Ahmed Mahmoud. The detainees, who we... |
111 | 2012-09-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-fans-storm-efa-protest-season-opening | Members of the Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , a group of hardcore fans supporting Cairo's Ahly football team, stormed into the Egyptian Football Association headquarters on Wednesday, lit fireworks and threw Molotov cocktails, said Mohamed al-Mashta,... |
112 | 2012-09-06 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/alexandria-security-says-cannot-secure-sunday-football-match | The Alexandria Security Directorate said it would be unable to secure football matches at Borg al-Arab Stadium, after the interior and sports ministers made the decision to hold the first match of the Egyptian Super Cup there on Sunday, according to a report in the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper. googletag.cmd.push(funct... |
113 | 2012-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-accuses-ministry-instigation-cancels-gathering | The Ultras Ahlawy, an association of hardcore supporters of Egypt's leading football club, Ahly, have accused the Interior Ministry of plotting a clash between Bedouin tribes in Alexandria's Borg al-Arab area and its members who were planning to storm the stadium hosting a Super Cup match between their Premier League c... |
114 | 2012-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-first-football-match-port-said-goes-ahead-despite-protests | The inaugural match of the Super Cup, between the Ahly and ENPI clubs, began at 9 pm on Sunday at Borg al-Arab stadium in Alexandria, despite protests from some football fans to cancel football matches until justice is attained for the victims of the Port Said Stadium violence googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.... |
115 | 2012-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-ultras-march-alexandria-stadium-sit-outside-players-hotel | About 300 people marched Sunday to the Borg al-Arab stadium in Alexandria to protest a game scheduled there later in the day between Ahly and ENPI. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); By late afternoon, the Ultras Ahlawy had reached the hotel in Alexandria where players ... |
116 | 2012-09-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/monday-s-papers-ultras-teacher-uprisings-and-military-lawsuits | Monday's papers focus their coverage on three main developments. Topping the news are the Ultras Ahlawy and their stand to prevent the convening of matches until justice is served in the trial of Port Said Stadium killings. Also capturing headlines are the dozens of lawsuits filed against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi ... |
117 | 2012-09-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-thousands-protest-us-embassy-0 | The number of protesters outside the US embassy in Cairo began to decrease Tuesday night after thousands had gathered earlier to protest a film they said was being produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Mohamed. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Ultras,... |
118 | 2012-09-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/prophet-film-clashes-continue-near-tahrir-outrage-and-firebombs | Protesters ripped the doors off a police car, as they pushed it toward the line of black-clad Central Security Forces officers guarding the road leading to the US Embassy in Cairo. From 100 meters away, they advanced, throwing rocks, until the crowd was perhaps a dozen meters away from the CSF line. Protesters set the ... |
119 | 2012-09-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-against-film-clash-police-tahrir | A protest against a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohamed turned violent as clashes erupted between demonstrators and police in the early hours of Thursday in Tahrir Square. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Police vehicles fired tear gas at protesters who were ... |
120 | 2012-09-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-assault-ahly-club-players-demanding-port-said-trial-verdict | Some 200 hardcore football fans assaulted Ahly Club players as they trained at the Nasr City branch Sunday, while thousands of other protesters surrounded the club outside. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The fans, known as ultras, were demanding justice for those ki... |
121 | 2012-09-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-storm-media-production-city | Hundreds of Ahly football club ultras on Tuesday stormed Media Production City vandalizing the offices of Modern Sport channel who had recently aired criticism of the ultras, hardcore football fans. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Both the Ahly and Zamalek ultras dem... |
122 | 2012-09-29 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/virus-spreading-safarkhan-s-next-show-takes-them-out-their-comfort-zone | Ganzeer has been pretty much living in googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Safarkhan gallery since 7 September. First he was hanging wooden panels of varying shapes and sizes on the walls of the ground floor, then he started painting on them. Egypt Independent visited la... |
123 | 2012-10-01 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-protest-tuesday-against-football-season | The leaders of the Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , the hardcore fan group for Cairo's Ahly football club, announced plans to hold a protest in front of the Sports Ministry Tuesday against the Premier League football season. The ultras' call comes in r... |
124 | 2012-10-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/interior-ministry-ready-secure-football-matches | The Interior Ministry googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); is ready to provide security for the football league matches that are scheduled to begin on 17 October, an official security source said on Thursday. The ministry said the league could resume play following the im... |
125 | 2012-10-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/sunday-s-papers-it-s-all-about-100-days | Readers will find it difficult to judge the performance of President Mohamed Morsy, as Sunday's newspapers seem to report on almost two different people. While state-owned and some party-affiliated newspapers mark Morsy's "historic" speech, other private newspapers see a poor performance by the Muslim Brotherhood-backe... |
126 | 2012-10-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-storm-club-demand-dismissal-chairman | A large number of Ultras Ahlawy on Wednesday stormed the Ahly club and demanded that Chairman Hassan Hamdy resign for tarnishing the club's reputation. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Around 200 ultras participated. They did not commit any acts of violence, and stres... |
127 | 2012-10-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/football-federation-elects-new-chief | Gamal Allam won the presidency of the Egyptian Football Federation elections. He is set to head the organization for the next four years. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Primary vote counting indicated Thursday that Allam would win by 22 votes more than his competito... |
128 | 2012-10-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-microbuses-set-ablaze-near-tahrir-brotherhood-members-chased-square | An anti-Brotherhood vibe prevailed in Tahrir Square on Friday evening, following clashes between members of the group and other protesters throughout the day. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Protesters in the square appear to have driven out the Muslim Brotherhood yo... |
129 | 2012-10-19 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-marches-arrive-tahrir-number-protesters-grows | The number of protesters in Tahrir Square swelled into the hundreds on Friday afternoon as marches arrived in the square from various districts in Cairo. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Protesters are demonstrating against the Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm... |
130 | 2012-10-21 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-clash-over-attempt-block-match-nigeria-s-sunshine-team | Security forces increased their presence at the Baron Hotel in Heliopolis on Sunday after supporters and opponents of resuming Egyptian Football Association games clashed outside the hotel. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Earlier in the day, two workers associated wi... |
131 | 2012-10-31 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/unresolved-security-financial-losses-pose-challenges-football | On Sunday 21 October, a number of Egyptian football league players and sports workers besieged the Baron Hotel in Heliopolis. Staying there were the Sunshine Stars, a Nigerian team due to play against Egypt's premier club, Ahly, in the African Champions League semifinal. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.displa... |
132 | 2012-11-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egyptian-footballer-says-he-may-play-israeli-team | Mahdy Suleiman, an Egyptian goalkeeper, said he is likely to accept a formal offer to join the Israeli Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. during the upcoming winter break, "if it is the only chance to play football." googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Suleiman is currently playing fo... |
133 | 2012-11-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-play-tunisia-s-esperance-african-champions-league-final | Ahly will play against Tunisia's Esperance in the African Champions League final first-leg Sunday at Borg al-Arab stadium in Alexandria. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The two teams will play again in Tunisia on 17 November. MENA cited Ahly Club's administration as ... |
134 | 2012-11-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/lemons-and-raisins | Yassin and Ali, both of generation Tahrir, were embroiled in a heated argument ahead of the presidential election between presidential candidates Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, and the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3')... |
135 | 2012-11-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/beyond-football-creative-transformation-egypt-s-ultras | Since their formation in 2005, the Egyptian ultras have been called everything from "thugs" to "soccer hooligans." They have been marked as "anarchists," and, most recently, branded as "protectors of the 25 January revolution." But these stereotypical attempts to label the ultras simply limit this enigmatic group of yo... |
136 | 2012-11-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-commemorate-mohamed-mahmoud-clashes-tahrir | Hundreds of political activists belonging to different revolutionary movements and coalitions performed prayers in Tahrir Square Tuesday for the victims of last November's Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Activists had planned a march f... |
137 | 2012-11-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/imbaba-clinic-kindness-holds-underfunded-health-system-together | The doctors are on strike, but the patients haven't noticed. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In Tanash primary care unit, in Warraq, north of Imbaba, doctors come into work to treat patients, but don't demand the tickets, for which patients pay a LE1.5 charge. The ai... |
138 | 2012-11-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egyptian-football-association-pushing-league-resume | The Egyptian Football Association googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); has presented Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal Eddin with several proposals to resume Premier League matches, which Gamal Eddin instructed ministry officials to review. During a meeting Thursday between a... |
139 | 2012-11-19 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-police-fire-teargas-birdshots-mohamed-mahmoud-protesters | Fighting broke out on Monday evening during a mass demonstration to commemorate last year's clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud Street googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , as police fired birdshots and teargas at demonstrators. At least one protester had difficulty breathing bec... |
140 | 2012-11-22 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-police-stops-attacks-fjp-headquarters | Dozens of activists attempted to storm the headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party in Port Said and Port Fouad, but were stopped by security forces. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); A demonstration had been organized from the Rahma Mosque to mark the one-year an... |
141 | 2012-11-22 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/premier-league-resume-mid-december | The Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association decided on Thursday to resume football activities and resume the Premier League on 15 December, after a meeting with heads and representatives of the clubs participating in the league. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204... |
142 | 2012-11-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-third-fjp-headquarters-set-ablaze-midst-ongoing-brotherhood-revolutionary-clashes | A third Freedom and Justice Party headquarters was stormed on Friday afternoon by anti-Brotherhood protesters. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); After burning another headquarters near Leader Ibrahim Square in Alexandria, protesters set another FJP office in the al-Ibr... |
143 | 2012-11-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/clashes-erupt-front-high-court-between-declaration-supporters-opponents | Clashes erupted outside the High Court between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy's new constitutional declaration while the Judges Club held an emergency meeting inside. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Some supporters of the declaration shot off fir... |
144 | 2012-11-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/around-300-injured-mahalla-clashes | A fire broke out in a gas station in Al-Shoan Square in Mahalla on Tuesday evening, as Mahalla Club Ultras and Islamist youth threw Molotov cocktails at one another, resulting in about 300 injuries. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Saad Mekky, director of the Mahalla ... |
145 | 2012-11-28 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/teargas-hits-tahrir-conflicting-reports-injuries-nationwide-emerge | Teargas canisters landed in Tahrir Square as fighting raged around the perimeter between police and protesters, according to AFP, as conflicting reports of the number of casualties begin to come in from the Health Ministry. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The Health ... |
146 | 2012-12-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-four-reported-dead-presidential-palace-clashes | Members of the Muslim Brotherhood started to pull out of the area surrounding the presidential palace late Wednesday night, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Clashes had spread earlier to more streets in Heliopolis as security for... |
147 | 2012-12-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-25-injured-clashes-outside-morsy-home-sharqiya | Around 25 protesters were injured in clashes with security forces and Muslim Brotherhood members at Mohamed Morsy's family house in Sharqiya on Friday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Three thousands protesters clashed with security forces, which later were joined by... |
148 | 2012-12-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-violence-verdict-be-issued-26-january | The Port Said Criminal Court decided on Wednesday to schedule a session on 26 January to sentence 73 defendants accused of involvement in the Port Said football massacre on 1 February 2012. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The defendants, including nine top officials ... |
149 | 2012-12-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/premier-league-football-play-resume-30-december | The Egyptian Football Association announced on Sunday it would resume Premier League play on 30 December, after postponing matches for constitutional referendum voting. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The association had originally said it was committed to beginning ... |
150 | 2012-12-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/al-warsha-s-revolution-testimonies-invite-us-reflect | "Don't believe everything you hear, even what I am telling you," one of the narrators says. It is a classic storyteller move - reminding the listener to always doubt a little. This is after all a story told only from one perspective. And the narrator is not omniscient. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(... |
151 | 2013-01-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-security-forces-separate-port-said-students-ultras | The Interior Ministry has announced that it has managed to separate students and ultras after clashes near the Port Said University dorms. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Police have also surrounded the dorms to avoid further clashes between the Al-Masry Club's "Gree... |
152 | 2013-01-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-fans-mobilize-sentencing-football-violence-trial | Hardcore football fan group Ultras Ahlawy is mobilizing supporters to rally for the court sentencing of defendants accused of killing more than 70 fans at a Port Said football match last year. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Seventy-five defendants were charged over ... |
153 | 2013-01-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-protest-port-said-victims | Dozens of Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); protested in front of the Helwan metro station on Friday to demand justice for the 72 Ahly fans killed in the Port Said Stadium massacre last February. Protesters raised banners that read: "Finding the perpetrat... |
154 | 2013-01-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/sunday-s-papers-preparations-elections-and-revolution-anniversary | Daily papers Sunday run news relating to the preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the issuing of historic court verdicts pertaining to the ousted Hosni Mubarak regime and the Shura Council, along with plans for the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution. googletag.cmd.push(function() { google... |
155 | 2013-01-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/making-city-home-redefining-public-art-between-state-businesses-and-people | Artist Omneia Naguib wants to "occupy the sky" by moving the familiar language of the street - imprints of political posters and common graffiti motifs - onto the grandiose billboard spaces typically reserved for those with power and money. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3')... |
156 | 2013-01-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-thousands-ultras-arrive-tahrir | Thousands of Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); members marching from Shubra arrived in Tahrir Square late on Friday afternoon, followed shortly thereafter by a march from the Ahly Club, arriving via the Qasr al-Nil Bridge entrance. Marches from Al-Fatah M... |
158 | 2013-01-20 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/interior-minister-port-said-defendants-will-not-attend-verdict | Negotiations have been taking place with the Port Said court panel to issue the verdict in the Port Said football violence case on 26 January without any defendants in attendance to prevent a riot. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim sai... |
159 | 2013-01-21 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/football-league-resume-play-might-not-have-audience | Stadiums might be empty when premier league football matches resume on 2 February, as the league awaits the issuing of a new draft law on hooliganism, said Egyptian Football Association googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); head Gamal Allam. "The law on hooliganism will on... |
160 | 2013-01-21 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-protest-alexandria-suez-ahead-port-said-verdict | Hundreds of Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); staged protests on Monday outside the Alexandria Security Directorate, a few days before the scheduled verdict in the case of the Port Said Stadium massacre that left 74 dead and hundreds injured. "We are givi... |
161 | 2013-01-22 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/public-prosecution-claims-have-new-evidence-port-said-case | The Public Prosecution has said that it has new evidence regarding the Port Said football violence, which it is forwarding to the Port Said Criminal Court Tuesday, according to prosecution spokesperson Hassan Yassin. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); However, a judicia... |
162 | 2013-01-22 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-stage-rally-outside-alexandria-court | Hundreds of the Ultras fans and supporters staged a rally outside the Alexandria Court complex in solidarity with 40s arrested after clashes that broke out on Sunday following the refusal of the Alexandria Court to issue a verdict at this time in the case of policemen accused of killing protesters during the revolution... |
163 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/prosecutors-claim-new-defendants-port-said-case | The request to enter new evidence and charge additional defendants in the Port Said football violence googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); case after closing arguments is not politically motivated, a Public Prosecution deputy has said. The Port Said Criminal Court has hea... |
164 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/stock-market-gains-us123-million-week | The stock market googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); rose this week by US$123 million amid a weak performance as investors fear consequences of the upcoming 25 January revolution anniversary and football fans' protest at the stock exchange headquarters. The main index, E... |
165 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-and-security-forces-clash-sharqiya | Dozens of hardcore football fans known as ultras blocked the railway in Zagazig in Sharqiya Governorate Wednesday evening, demanding retribution for the Port Said football violence googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); last year, with ensuing clashes continuing into the ni... |
166 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-protest-second-consecutive-day-0 | Hundreds of Zamalek's White Knights ultras protested for the second day at the Alexandria court complex googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Wednesday, demanding the release of a fellow group member who is being held pending investigations over the burning of a court buil... |
167 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-ultras-protest-downtown-cairo-block-metro | Days before a court is set to rule in the case over last year's football violence, Ultras Ahlawy protested at several landmarks in Cairo, starting at the stock exchange building and heading to Tahrir Square by mid-afternoon after blocking a metro train. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488... |
168 | 2013-01-23 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/wednesday-s-papers-new-port-said-evidence-old-regime-prison-diaries | As the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution approaches, headlines about protest martyrs and the Port Said massacre take front and center in most newspapers this morning. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Al-Shorouk leads with "An arms-smuggling mafia is behi... |
169 | 2013-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/25-january-one-anniversary-two-commemorations | While still both recognizing the ongoing struggle for bread, freedom and social justice, the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party on one side and the opposition on the other will mark the second anniversary of the 25 January in two very different ways. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad... |
170 | 2013-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/25-january-protests-start-thursday-night-continue-friday-across-nation | Activists and political forces are planning a series of marches for the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, to kick off after Friday prayers. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Under the slogan, "The revolution continues until its goals are met," the marche... |
171 | 2013-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/green-eagle-ultras-storm-suez-canal-port-threaten-shut-down-waterway | The "Green Eagle" Ultras in Port Said who support the Masry Club stormed the tourism gate of the city's main port on the Suez Canal googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); on Thursday. The group shot off fireworks, chanted and sang demanding "a just verdict in the case of th... |
172 | 2013-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursday-s-papers-25-january-starts-early | Days ahead of the 25 January revolution's second anniversary googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , Thursday's papers report on ultras' protests yesterday as a preview of the larger demonstrations expected Friday to commemorate the start of the revolution. The football fa... |
173 | 2013-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-saturday-decisive-many | Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); called on "whoever still believes that blood is not cheap" to gather at 8 am Saturday outside the Police Academy, where the trial of those accused of killing 72 members of the football fan group is scheduled to be held. T... |
174 | 2013-01-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/clashes-erupt-alexandria-protests-0 | Two districts in Alexandria googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); were overrun by violent clashes Friday, between protesters decrying President Mohamed Morsy, the Interior Ministry and the "Brotherhoodization of the state," and security forces and local residents. Injuries... |
175 | 2013-01-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-trial-verdict-prove-decisive-both-sides | googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Promises of "retribution or chaos" are sprayed in graffiti on the walls of central Cairo and its metro stations, signed by the Ultras Ahlawy ahead of 26 January, when a decisive verdict in the Port Said massacre is due. In February 201... |
176 | 2013-01-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/two-families-remember-their-martyred-and-missing-sons | In the second anniversary of an uprising that erupted against poverty, injustice and oppression, demands for the rights of martyrs and those injured continue to resonate at protests. Their families are left to grieve, with no hope of retribution in sight. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-14... |
177 | 2013-01-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-least-nine-deaths-reported-armed-forces-deployed-suez | At least eight deaths were reported in the Suez Governorate late Friday, as well as one death in Ismailia, according to medical and security sources in the area, after protests there turned violent on the day marking the 25 January 2011 uprising, where the first martyr also fell in Suez. googletag.cmd.push(function() {... |
178 | 2013-01-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-prosecutor-general-forms-team-investigate-violence-sabotage-friday-demos | Two years ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to protest the oppressive regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, demanding bread, freedom and social justice. When protests began on 25 January 2011, there was no intention to topple Mubarak, but the demands quickly grew larger, snowballing over the 18 days of the r... |
179 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/21-port-said-football-violence-defendants-sentenced-death | A Cairo court sentenced 21 of the defendants in the Port Said football violence case to death Saturday morning. The fate of the rest of the 75 defendants is to be determined in another hearing set for 9 March. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); However, the five senior ... |
180 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/anger-and-joy-follow-port-said-football-massacre-verdict | Families of defendants sentenced to death in the Port Said football massacre case attempted to storm the area of the Port Said prison where their sons are incarcerated, Saturday morning, in protest of a Cairo court's ruling the same day. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }... |
181 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/eagles-and-white-pinks-make-debut-ettehadiya | The dramatic entrance staged by a group of masked protesters on Friday at Ettehadiya Presidential Palace was quickly followed by a less than dignified exit after they were berated by women who'd been chanting in front of the palace since the morning. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287... |
182 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/no-police-officers-sentenced-death-saturday-port-said-ruling | None of the 21 people sentenced to death for their involvement in the Port Said football violence were police officers. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Nine senior police officers accused in the case will hear their verdict on 9 March, including former head of Port S... |
183 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-storm-police-station-suez-free-prisoners | Protesters have stormed a police station on Saturday in Suez following fierce clashes with security forces, and freed prisoners there. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); They also took the weapons that were left behind by policemen who fled the station as it was being s... |
184 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/security-forces-protesters-clash-near-interior-ministry | Clashes have erupted between protesters and security forces near the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Protesters hurled stones at troops on Nubar and Youssef al-Guindy streets, and security forces fired tear gas in response, while ... |
185 | 2013-01-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-gather-club-ahead-port-said-case-hearing | Hundreds of Ahly football fans gathered around the premises of the club in Cairo on Saturday morning to head to the court where a hearing and possibly a verdict on the Port Said massacre are expected. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The massacre took place in Februar... |
186 | 2013-01-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/military-denies-live-ammunition-used-against-port-said-protesters | Armed Forces Spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali has denied reports that the Armed Forces used live ammunition against protesters in Port Said during violent riots Saturday that saw at least 30 people killed. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "The Armed Forces confirms that... |
187 | 2013-01-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/sunday-s-papers-between-retribution-and-turmoil | Both state-run and independent newspapers Sunday juxtaposed the celebrations and chaos that erupted in Cairo and Port Said respectively after the court ruling in the Port Said football case on their front pages. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); State-run daily Al-Ahra... |
188 | 2013-01-28 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/end-game-port-said-football-case-reveals-new-breadth-politics | PORT SAID - While wall graffiti in Cairo is fixated on the dead, those of Port Said googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); are fixated on the would-be dead. The faces of Homos, Outa and other defendants from among the ultras of the Port Said football massacre are stencilled... |
189 | 2013-01-28 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/monday-s-papers-clashes-continue-and-black-bloc-emerges | "Violence sweeps Suez Canal, Cairo and Alexandria" headlines on the front page of state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper read. Two people were shot dead and 312 were injured in Port Said on Sunday during the funerals of 33 people killed there when locals angered by a court decision rioted as anti-government protests spread ar... |
190 | 2013-01-28 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-armed-men-attempt-storm-port-said-prison | Clashes renewed between protesters and police forces across several governorates throughout the day on Monday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Six armed men on motorbikes opened fire at soldiers securing the Port Said prison on Monday night, said military spokesperso... |
191 | 2013-01-29 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thousands-break-curfew-overnight-canal-governorates | Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Ismailia, Port Said and Suez Governorates after 9 pm Monday, in a direct challenge to President Mohamed Morsy's decision to impose a curfew there. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Morsy had imposed the 9 pm to 6 am curfew... |
192 | 2013-01-31 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/canal-cities-organize-nightly-football-matches-defy-curfew | In defiance of the state of emergency declared amid unrest in Suez Canal Zone cities, some activists are organizing football matches during curfew hours. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); President Mohamed Morsy declared a month-long state of emergency in canal cities ... |
193 | 2013-01-31 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursday-s-papers-everyone-s-invited-no-one-wants-talk | In Thursday's papers, a baffling dialogue dilemma unfolds in all its glory. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Many of the country's political forces see national talks, designed to bring a variety of polarizing figures together, as the only way to end ongoing violence ... |
194 | 2013-02-06 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/school-postponed-week-port-said | Officials postponed the beginning of Port Said schools' winter semester for at least a week on Wednesday, according to state news agency MENA. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Port Said Governor Major General Ahmed Abdallah, students will only be able to return to the... |
195 | 2013-02-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-least-92-injured-gharbiya-clashes-says-ministry | Mass marches and demonstrations took place across the governorates on Friday, which political movements have called the "Friday of Departure." googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The demonstrations demand the safeguarding of the objectives of the revolution, the dissolut... |
196 | 2013-02-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-security-fires-tear-gas-water-cannons-protesters-palace | Security forces dispersed protesters in front of the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace with a barrage of tear gas and water cannons Friday evening. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Protesters retreated to Caliph Maamoun Street as armored vehicles and Central Security For... |
197 | 2013-02-14 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/over-30-detainees-released-tanta-after-clashes | Tanta's Public Prosecution released 32 people Thursday who were detained pending an investigation into clashes last Friday in the cities of Tanta and Kafr al-Zayat in Gharbiya Governorate. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The suspects face possible charges of rioting ... |
198 | 2013-02-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/solider-accused-killing-teenager-custody | The soldier who fatally shot a 13-year-old street vendor during clashes in downtown Cairo earlier this month will be detained for 15 days pending investigations into the incident, said the military prosecution on Friday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The military p... |
199 | 2013-02-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-jama-al-islamiya-protest-draws-close-early-friday-evening | Early Friday evening, Islamist demonstrators at Cairo University's Renaissance Square announced the end of today's protest against violence held by the Jama'a al-Islamiya and its Construction and Development Party. Throughout the day, members of Jama'a al-Islamiya and other Islamist forces chanted in support of Preside... |
200 | 2013-02-17 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-shut-down-port-said-governorate-hq-briefly-block-railway | Thousands of students, football ultras and family members of prisoners have shut down the Port Said governorate building and temporarily blocked the Cairo-Port Said railway line after activists called for a civil disobedience campaign. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); });... |
201 | 2013-02-17 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-members-attack-port-said-volleyball-team-injuring-10 | Dozens of members belonging to Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , a group of hardcore football fans of Cairo's Ahly team, stormed the Shooting Club in Dokki Sunday evening, and attacked players from Port Said's "Rabat wal Anwar" volleyball team, injuring... |
202 | 2013-02-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/monday-s-papers-nepotism-and-civil-disobedience | Unrest in the Suez Canal city of Port Said is at the top of the agenda for the local press Monday. Many media outlets also cover protests and strikes unfolding across the country as well as the appointment of the president's son to a well-paying position within the holding company for airports. googletag.cmd.push(funct... |
203 | 2013-02-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-and-ultras-clash-during-march-reveals-rift-and-rivalries | Demonstrators organized a march Friday to demand justice for former military leaders whom protesters accuse of killing revolutionaries during the 18-month-long transition that followed the 25 January revolution. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The initiative was an a... |
204 | 2013-02-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thousands-march-port-said-against-protest-killings | Workers at the Port Said arsenal, which is run by the Suez Canal Authority, have joined a civil disobedience campaign that started Sunday to protest the deaths of demonstrators last month. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Violence erupted in the city on 26 January aft... |
205 | 2013-02-19 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-block-port-said-road-trees-and-flaming-tires | Hundreds Ultras Al-Masry members and Port Fouad residents blocked the road leading to the eastern side of Port Said with tree trunks and flaming tires on Tuesday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The move is part of ongoing acts of civil disobedience in Port Said Gove... |
206 | 2013-02-19 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/tuesday-s-papers-turbulence-within-army-and-port-said-civil-disobedience | Al-Shorouk leads with, "prejudice against Sisi is suicide for the current political regime." The paper reports that sources stated there was a widespread feeling of unease and anger among Armed Forces officers in the wake of rumors about the sacking of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the minister of defense. High l... |
207 | 2013-02-21 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/who-rules-egypt-now | At the beginning it was Ultras Ahlawy. On 27 January, a judge ordered the execution of 21 civilians in the Port Said football violence, in which at least 72 football fans were killed. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The ruling seemed to run contrary to the majority o... |
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