Egyptian Revolution Tweets February 3 2010 Crackdown Part 1

[Catherina]

Yesterday's last thread is here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=335526&mesg_id=335526


Revolution tweets February 2 2011 A Message to the world Part 16

@ajenglish @aymanM @bencnn @acarvin Between 8 & 12 human rights lawyers + activists arrested at Hisham Mubarak Law Centre #jan25
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck


RT @monasosh: Last we heard from ppl in Hisham mubarak law center is army police was there now all their mobiles are switched off #Jan25
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck


RT @alaa: I hear military police just invaded hisham mubarak law center, we can't reach anyone inside (my dad is there) #Jan25
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck


Army cleared Video Cairo and closing it down #jan25
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

Video Cairo had proof of many violations and was receiving information from HRW activists and US journalists on the ground. Those of you following these threads will recognize some of the names.

Please rec if you like this. For some incomprehensible reason, these are getting immediately unrec'd

[Catherina]

1. Sandmonkey arrested , thugs , Army police

@Sandmonkey's dad just tried to call him, someone picked up and told him @Sandmonkey's been arrested and he was next. Help! #egypt #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Mubarak and state TV feeding fear and suspicion trying to create civil unrest. Reports of random attacks, ppl accused of being spies #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

About 10 thugs managed to get through and now sitting outside Video Cairo office door #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Reports that army is trying to stop thugs entering Video Cairo building #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck



We can forget about the army trying to stop thugs because it's the Military Police that invaded the center. Suleyman's goons are not on the people's side. Bear with me while I catch up with whatever clues they left.

My main consolidated Tweet feed which was used by journalists and activists has completely disappeared as if it never existed.

http://twitter.com/Christiversity/egypt-uprising-realtime# "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"

Lots of my tweets have dead silence now.

[Catherina]

2. on the phone with May Kamel, thugs are surrounding Hilton Ramsis and journalists are trapped inside

Sarahngb People.. I'm on the phone with May Kamel, the thugs are surrounding Hilton Ramsis and journalists are trapped inside. #jan25 #tahrir
about 1 hour ago via YoruFukurou

[Catherina]

9. organized attacks by Mubarak's thugs on protesters, western media people, journalist, law firms, and

Raafatology organized attacks by Mubarak's thugs on protesters, western media people, journalist, law firms, and human rights offices in #Cairo #Egypt
about 1 hour ago via web

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. twitter feed disappeared?

Sounds ominous. Sounds like they are picking off people one by one.

[Catherina]

3. Evidence that they're trying to make disappear. Some of the seized Police ID cards of

Some of the seized ID cards of of the more than 150 (last count I had) government thugs arrested.


Evidence that they're trying to make disappear. Some of the seized Police ID cards of

[Catherina]

4. wrong place.

[Catherina]

5. @occupiedcairo most recent tweets, Video Cairo, gov't thugs, military police

About 10 thugs managed to get through and now sitting outside Video Cairo office door #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Reports that army is trying to stop thugs entering Video Cairo building #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Philip Rizq and Yasmina .. are in Video Cairo building on Tahrir. Thugs broken through lines and are trying to get into building. #jan25
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @Salamander: Military police is arresting anyone going up the building or coming down! Hmlc and escr is under seige
about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Impressive photos by @RiverDryFilm from the Musem Battle last night. http://www.flickr.com/photos/56458828@N02/
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @hackneylad: Fierce street battle on Mo. Haggag street outside my building, thugs re-taken the underpass but protesters holding ground
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

Ahmed Ahab Mostafa, 29 years old, shot on Friday, died today in Al Azhar university hospital in Hussein." #jan25
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

Renewed attacks by the museum and Talat Harb street. Using live ammunition #jan25
about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck

[Catherina]

6. Statement on the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre arrests

@Sarahcarr: Statement by Ahdaf Soueif on the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre arrests http://bit.ly/ervCHZ #jan25


I can't get the link to work

[Catherina]

38. Can anyone with a google account access this? n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

46. Access what....don't understand.

[Catherina]

48. The document in that link. It's in the google repository

:hi:

[Catherina]

49. I can't remember my password n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Here:

Message from Ahdaf Soueif



"Good friend just saw 8 to 12 people being dragged out of No 1 Souq el-Tawfikiyyah St and bundled into a civilian micro-bus while a military police vehicle waited nearby. The people were being beaten and the street had been told they were "Iranian and Hamas agents come to destabilise Egypt" so the street was chanting against them. No 1 Souq el-Tawfikiyyah St is the home of the offices of The Hisham Mubarak Legal Aid Centre, The Centre for Social and Economic Rights and The 6th April Youth.

And, btw, my brother-in-law, the lawyer Ahmad Seif is the Hisham Mubarak Legal Aid Centre.

Please get word out o as many news outlets as you can".

Ahdaf at 15:00 Cairo time
Link:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=18z4475_wY07GDsBxvlQJkkPEb5UQ90dtFnrIK0PZcBY

[Catherina]

54. Thanks. This stuff needs to get out there. n/t

[Catherina]

7. el nadeem rehabilitation center for victims of torture surrounded by govt thugs

el nadeem center for victims of torture surrounded by thugs, el nadeem is a free clinic for rehabilitating torture victims #Jan25
17 minutes ago via TweetDeck

[icymist]

8. Here are some BBC tweets:

1520: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken to Hosni Mubarak and told him that dialogue must begin, Reuters reports.
1518: Ashraf Khalil tweets: "Huge plumes of smoke coming from up the river past national archives. Hard to tell but could be Arcadia mall."
1417: This update from BBC reporters in the Gaza Strip: "Dozens of university students have demonstrated outside the Egyptian consulate in Gaza in support of the Egyptian protestors.They chanted anti-Mubarak slogans, and called on the Egyptian protestors not to give up until he leaves."
1516: AFP citing witnesses saying a supermarket on the outskirts of Cairo is on fire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[Catherina]

35. BBC Arabic reporting that pro-mubarak protesters have broken into several hotels and threw out forei

NadiaE BBC Arabic reporting that pro-mubarak protesters have broken into several hotels and threw out foreign journos #egypt
about 1 hour ago via web

[Catherina]

10. Mubarak is attempting a MEDIA BLACKOUT, list of 110+ eyewitnesses

@Dima_Khatib Mubarak is attempting a MEDIA BLACKOUT- plz help info spread by sharing this list of 110+ eyewitnesses--> http://bit.ly/esRyiI
about 1 hour ago via web

[Catherina]

11. 7 police officers & 3 thugs arrested today in Mansura city by pro-democracy protesters.

marwame RNN: 7 police officers & 3 thugs arrested today in Mansura city by pro-democracy protesters. #jan25 #Egypt
less than a minute ago via HootSuite

[Catherina]

12. This is a warzone. Press please try to stay and report

Beltrew This is a warzone. I know it's not my business to say that. But I feel it. Press please try to stay and report. It's dangerous if you all go.

[Catherina]

13. Another (5th at least) State TV journalist resigned in protest

NadiaE

Respect to resigned Nile TV reporter Shahira Amin #egypt #jan25
2 minutes ago via web

[Catherina]

36. Not just any journalist, the deputy director

ashrafkhalil #Jan25 Confirmed 1st person that Shahira Amin deputy director of state-run Nile TV has resigned in protest over biased coverage
about 1 hour ago via web

[highplainsdem]

14. Cairo Hilton hotel confiscating journos' cameras on behalf of regime!

Cairo Hilton hotel confiscating journos' cameras on behalf of regime! So much for @HiltonOnline brand, I'm never staying there again! #Egypt

http://twitter.com/ellozy

[Catherina]

15. I have more on that from yesterday

searched all the rooms thoroughly yesterday

forbade journalists from filming from their balconies



Mubarak requests media crackdown, US obliged and ordered all US journalists out. Sent a special airlift

[Junkdrawer]

16. Betcha DemocracyNow won't leave.... n/t

[Catherina]

18. I hope not. Many US journalists said they didn't want to leave

I'll bet a few stayed and are keeping a very low profile.

[Catherina]

34. Mohammed El Waffify (film director), Individuals observed on roof of Ramses.

Jan25voices LPC with Mohammed El Waffify (film director) in the square: Individuals observed on roof of Ramses.
about 1 hour ago via web

[Catherina]

55. Hilton "we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and hope you bear with us". Manners amid chaos

hamish6PM Our hotel says "we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and hope you bear with us". Manners amid chaos ;-) #Egypt #6pm
9 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

[Catherina]

17. UK Petition : going to David Cameron this Sunday

monasosh #Jan25 RT @hananegypt: PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION: http://bit.ly/gRvM8z it's going to David Cameron THIS SUNDAY
2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

To: British Government
Petition to No. 10 Downing Street
From: United Egyptians, London
Date: Sunday 6 February 2011

Background:
We, the United Egyptians, a group of concerned Egyptian citizens, are extremely distressed with the latest developments in Egypt. Since Tuesday 25th January, millions of ordinary Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest against the repressive 30 year dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak and his regime. Under Egyptian Emergency Law, enacted in 1981, Mubarak has systematically denied basic social, political and human rights to the Egyptian people. The character of the current protests in Egypt has been a grassroots movement; based on a broad spectrum of the Egyptian population, from a variety of political and social backgrounds. Protests have been secular and inclusive of all communities in Egypt, regardless of faith or political affiliation, and represent the popular consensus for democratic reform.
Mubarak and the current regime have responded to calls for reform with intimidation, beatings and killings and have attempted to isolate the country from the international media. They have hindered communication and freedom of expression by disconnecting internet and mobile services nationwide. Security services and government sponsored thugs have attacked unarmed peaceful protesters and have used live ammunition against crowds of men, women and children causing large numbers of deaths and injuries. The protesters are now besieged and are being denied medical supplies and food.

While we firmly believe that it is the right and responsibility of the Egyptian people to make a stand for their rights, we believe that the international community must put pressure on the Egyptian regime in support of democracy and human rights.

We strongly urge the British government to take a firm stand, using its influence to press for:

1. The immediate cessation of all forms of violence and intimidation targeting the peaceful protesters across Egypt and the safeguarding of their right to peacefully gather and protest.

2. The unconditional resignation of Hosni Mubarak, effective immediately.

3. The establishment of a transitional governing body representing the protesters and opposition groups from across the Egyptian political spectrum.

4. The oversight by this governing body- within a predetermined period of time- the drafting of a new constitution and the facilitation of free, fair and inclusive elections that are independently monitored.

A full version of this petition will be delivered to No 10 Downing Street on Sunday 6 February 2011 at 2pm.
You can sign the petition online at: http://www.petitiononline.com/EGYPT01/

Please join us in protest outside Downing Street from 12-3pm.

For further information, please contact: [email protected]

You can also visit the facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Egyptians-msrywn-mthdwn/195973217079678
Sincerely,

The Undersigned

68 signatures so far.


This is brand new stuff here straight from sources, PLEASE spread to any UK subjects you know, do what you can to help.

[Catherina]

19. crackdown on journalists, ARMY

sharifkouddous There appears to be a crackdown on journalists. We almost got thrown out by army people walking past a checkpoint on outskirts of Tahrir
3 minutes ago via txt

[demmiblue]

20. Govt is trying to round up journalists.

@NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Govt is trying to round up journalists. I worry about what it is they're planning that they don't want us to see. #Egypt.

[Catherina]

21. Cairo hotels are stormed by thugs looking for (journalists and cameras)

Beltrew Very dangerous to be a foreigner or a journalist. Please please be careful. Cairo hotels are stormed by thugs. Scared.
4 minutes ago via web



It was the ARMY last night confiscating film, USBs, cameras, whatever the could find when they searched people. Stuff still got out so today the crackdown and US accommodation with orders to report to airlifts

[demmiblue]

22. Journalists, now targets, disliked by mubarak supporters, forced to play cat-mouse game, broadcasti

richardengelnbc richard engel
#egypt. Journalists, now targets, disliked by mubarak supporters, forced to play cat-mouse game, broadcasting, moving, staying low profile

[Catherina]

23. Western journalists had evidence that the Army was involved in the massacre

They plainly stated, from the frontlines, that the US couldn't disown this now. Some of tweets are in these threads.

[highplainsdem]

24. I can't say for sure but I think there are a number of infiltrators in Tahrir.

sharifkouddous
I can't say for sure but I think there are a number of infiltrators in Tahrir. People walking around filming, not looking the part. #Egypt

http://twitter.com/sharifkouddous

@sharifkouddous Live from Egypt
journalist. Senior producer for Democracy Now!, a global, independent news hour (@democracynow)
http://bit.ly/i7yHH4

[Catherina]

25. Beaten up because.. I have a laptop. In army custody. Bleeding frm head. Headache. Oh well.

TravellerW Beaten up by the lovely #Egyptian ppl on way home because.. I have a laptop. In army custody. Bleeding frm head. Headache. Oh well. #jan25
5 minutes ago via Free Egypt

[Catherina]

26. Pro-democracy protesters "We won't go!" in English for a reason now

glcarlstrom Pro-democracy protesters have now turned to chanting, "We won't go!" For the benefit of the international news media? #egypt
37 minutes ago via HootSuite

[highplainsdem]

27. From Sandmonkey: I am ok. I got out. I was ambushed & beaten by the police,

Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
I am ok. I got out. I was ambushed & beaten by the police, my phone confiscated , my car ripped apar& supplies taken #jan25

http://twitter.com/Sandmonkey

[dixiegrrrrl]

59. I am SO glad you posted that!

I have been following Sandmonkey for a few days.
thank you.
Pls keep posting here to help out Catherina?

[Catherina]

28. compared to what happens to journos and activists outside, tahrir square is the safest place now !!!

waelabbas compared to what happens to journos and activists outside, tahrir square is the safest place now !!!
40 minutes ago via web

[Catherina]

29. Thugs are not many however they are trying to get to the journalists (all foreign) by the way!

Sarahngb The Thugs are not many however they are trying to get to the journalists (all foreign) by the way! Please try to help them #tahrir #jan25
about 1 hour ago via YoruFukurou

[Catherina]

30. CIA Torturer in Chief, VP Sulaiman "Let's take advantage of the coming period so we can ensure a s

SaadAbedine Nile TV is quoting VP Sulaiman saying "Let's take advantage of the coming period so we can ensure a safe transition of power"
about 1 hour ago via web

[Catherina]

31. International journalists are now being forcibly prevented from reporting from Cairo

naglarzk RT @AnnCurry International journalists are now being forcibly prevented from reporting from Cairo #jan25 #egypt
about 1 hour ago via web

[Catherina]

32. When they start arresting human rights activists and lawyers, you know mass arrests are underway

mand0z When they start arresting human rights activists and lawyers, you know mass arrests are underway. #Jan25 #Egypt
about 1 hour ago via YoruFukurou

[Catherina]

33. Army seems inadequately deployed given that Egypt PM has just pledged no more clashes.

jonsnowC4 Army seems inadequately deployed given that Egypt PM has just pledged no more clashes..
about 1 hour ago via web



Jon, that pledge was just so we can pretend to be *shocked* again when this Gaza-style blackout doesn't work.

[Catherina]

37. journalists being harassed by govt thus and detained by army

SherineT Meanwhile journalists being harassed by crowds and detained by army #egypt #jan25
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

[Catherina]

39. Masses pouring across the bridge in front of our hotel. Utter chaos

hamish6PM Masses pouring across the bridge in front of our hotel. Throwing stones and other projectiles. Utter chaos #Egypt #6pm
about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone

[Catherina]

40. Three journalist of Aljazeera network staff have been detained

ajimran #Egypt: Three journalist of Aljazeera network staff have been detained in Cairo in Egypt.
about 2 hours ago via Seesmic for BlackBerry

[highplainsdem]

41. waelabbas: Human Rights Watch researcher Dan Williams among those arrested

waelabbas Wael Abbas
Human Rights Watch researcher Dan Williams among those arrested at Hisham Mubarak Law Centre, at least 24 journalists so far, equipment conf

http://twitter.com/waelabbas

[Catherina]

42. Snipers on top of Hilton Ramsis (right now)

waelabbas Snipers on top of Hilton Ramsis
half a minute ago via web

[highplainsdem]

43. wailabbas: Snipers on top of Hilton Ramsis

waelabbas Wael Abbas
Snipers on top of Hilton Ramsis

http://twitter.com/waelabbas

[highplainsdem]

44. Sandmonkey: Please don't respond to my phone or BBM. This isn't me. My phone was confiscated

Sandmonkey
Please don't respond to my phone or BBM. This isn't me. My phone was confiscated by a thug of an officer who insults those who call.

http://twitter.com/Sandmonkey

[Catherina]

47. Proof of "harm" honests journalists did to the cause

glcarlstrom In which I completely agree with Marc Thiessen: http://ow.ly/3PEFf (via @noonanjo)
1 minute ago via HootSuite

Compare these two articles.

CAIRO — Whipped up by state television and spoiling for a fight, thousands of supporters of President Hosni Mubarak flooded into the center of Egypt’s capital Wednesday, sparking violent clashes that shifted the momentum in a political confrontation that has gripped the region and the world.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020203035.html?wprss=rss_print

CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak struck back at his opponents on Wednesday, unleashing waves of his supporters armed with clubs, rocks, knives and firebombs in a concentrated assault on thousands of antigovernment protesters in Tahrir Sqaure calling for an end to his authoritarian rule … The crackdown was in defiance of calls by the United States and Europe to avoid violence … The Mubarak supporters emerged from buses. They carried the same flags and the same printed signs, and they all escalated their actions, from shouting to violence, at exactly the same moment: 2:15 p.m. The protesters showed journalists police and ruling party identification cards which they said had been taken from Mubarak supporters who had been caught infiltrating Tahrir Square, also known as Liberation Square, and detained in a holding pen.

www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html

Based on the journalist and activist tweets we witnessed, you decide.

[Catherina]

50. Swe TV's missing corresp Bert Sundström last seen outside Marriot. Photo.

NickKristof RT @BREricsson Swe TV's missing corresp Bert Sundström last seen outside Marriot. Photo. http://twitpic.com/3w3wen #egypt
3 minutes ago via web

[Catherina]

51. Greek journalist stabbed in Cairo while covering protests in #Tahrir

marwame RT @AnasBukhash: AJ:Greek journalist stabbed in Cairo while covering protests in #Tahrir. #Egypt #Jan25 Via @SultanAlQassemi
4 minutes ago via HootSuite

[Catherina]

53. Video. a Pro-Mubarak Demonstrator confesses

In Arabic but documented.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdpQD_JD2g0&feature=youtu.be


Human Right's worker, who shot this, description reads

One From the Pro-Mubarak Demonstration Speaks How Did He Join

His name is Ahmed Fayez, he said that two individuals went to his neighborhood on 1 Feb 2911 and introduced themselves as National Democratic Party working with Dr.Fathy Serour, President of People Assembly, and started distributing money on the people to join the demonstration and chant for Mubarak and they asked Fayez and others to be in Tahrir Square..

Fayez mentioned that people who went with him had weapons and molotov to be used against the the anti-mubarak demonstration in Tahrir Square.

[Catherina]

56. SherineT Suleiman; military protecting people and constitution and now have a 'new role' implementin

SherineT Suleiman; military protecting people and constitution and now have a 'new role' implementing curfew and police force role
less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®



Jan25voices AlJaz Eng Omar #Suleiman : I will direct security forces to investigate and find out who is 'pulling the strings'.
2 minutes ago via web


marwame VP: I will ask security forces to arrest those responsible for #Tahrir. #jan25
2 minutes ago via HootSuite


SherineT Suleiman: maybe there are foreign agendas at play in tahrir sq.we will know soon who was behind clashes. #egypt #jan25
2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®


Jan25voices AlJaz Eng Omar #Suleiman : foreign influences were also pushing guiding enthusiasm of youth.
2 minutes ago via web

Ssirgany Again the "foreign" elements bla in Omar Sulieman's interview. you can't blame everything on foreign elements. It's too stupid.
3 minutes ago via TweetDeck

glcarlstrom RT @aloraibi: Omar Sulaiman talking about violence in Egypt in past tense - as though just yesterday.. reports of attacks continue on ground
3 minutes ago via HootSuite

Jan25voices AlJaz Eng Omar #Suleiman : The questioner is asking leading questions about 'foreign' infiltrators in the security forces..
3 minutes ago via web

arwasm Looks like the mere fact that we have large numbers is being used by the regime to say it's all infiltrators and chaos. #jan25 #Egypt
3 minutes ago via web

Kikiesque The interviewer is a super 7alloof..
3 minutes ago via ÜberTwitter

marwame Meanwhile, as VP spouts nonsense, 10 killed in #Tahrir today (according to Reuters) #jan25
4 minutes ago via HootSuite


Just want these Suleyman quotes here for the laughs.


Egyptian State TV has been running a bunch of conspiracy stuff that the Jews were behind this. And the Iranians. And the Muslim Brotherhood. I'll see if I can find the name of the frothing kook State TV is running all the time now.

[Catherina]

57. Toturer in Chief VP Suleiman on TV now complaining about unfriendly TV stations

2+2 = 4

[Catherina]

58. Part 2 here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x339159