For the third day in a row, protesters and military police have clashed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in deadly violence. At least 10 have been killed and over 441 injured. Hundreds of protesters, demanding that the ruling military council hand over power to civilians, have been camping out in the cold in Tahrir. The violence began on Friday after one of several hundred protesters at a sit-in outside Parliament officers was detained and beaten. More clashes have occurred on Saturday and Sunday, when results from a second round of voting, again showing gains for Islamist parties, were announced.
Shocking Brutalities Against Unarmed Protesters
The Guardian and Al Jazeera both describe shocking details of military police kicking protesters repeatedly in the head until they stopped moving and of protesters being dragged into parliamentary buildings where they were beaten, slapped and tortured with electronic prods. Military police used truncheons and long sticks, destroyed a field hospital, set fire to tents and briefly detained journalists. According to the Guardian, military police threw the camera and equipment of an Al-Jazeera film crew off the balcony of a building......more
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