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Advice in case you are beaten by police or army - نصايح لاوقات التعرض للضرب بواسطه الجيش أو الشرطة

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Scroll down for English. translated by Mai Shams El-Din Ismail

نظرا للوحشية المتعمدة من قبل قوات الأمن سواء كانت مدنية أو عسكرية (شرطة - جيش) فمن الملزم ان تأخذ حذرك حين تقع فريسة في ايدي من لا يرحم !

اولا في المعارك في مصر لازم تعتاد على الكر والفر الكتير اللي احيانا بيكون  زيادة عن اللزوم طبعا وبيكون  في اوقات كتيرة خطر من غير شك.

لما يكون هجوم القوات المواجهة مؤكد اياك أو اياكي تبص ورا ضهرك بص بس أمامك وكل اللي يكون في مخك إنك تقطع اطول مسافة في اقصر زمن مع الحفاظ على الهدوء ومعدل التنفس الطبيعي.

نتيجة للتزاحم أو اي عامل آخر ممكن جدا تلاقي نفسك وقعت على الأرض وفي الحالة دي بكرر اياك تنظر خلفك وحاول جاهدا إنك تقوم بسرعة عشان تنجي نفسك من بطش الباطشين.

في المواجهة الغير متكافئة خلي دايما مبدأك الخروج بأقل الخساير .. بمعنى إنك لو هتهرب وماسك حاجة معطلك يبقى سيبها أو مثلا لو وقعت واضربت يبقى تتفادى الاعتقال.

في حالة السقوط على الأرض اللي بيضربك غالبا مش بيكون  واحد بس .. بالعكس بيكون  طبعا حفلة عليك أو عليكي.

وهنا لازم تكون اولوياتك معروفة يعني اهم جهاز في جسمك في اللحظات دي هي أجهزة الحركة يعني الساقين وعشان كده لازم تتفادى اي كسور أو اي حاجة ممكن تعيق أو تأثر على الحركة ولذلك احمي نفسك من الكسور في الساقين بانك تستقبل الضرب بزاوية و متخليش العصا تنزل عمودية خليك في حركة دايما يعني ترفص وتحاول تستقبل الضرب أو معظمه بفخذك لانها اكبر كتلة عضلية وأكتر مكان ممكن يمتص الصدمات.

وبالنسبة لتاني اهم جهاز أو مكان ممكن يعيق حركتك هو البطن لانك هتتعرض للضرب فيها بالأرجل وفيها اماكن ممكن تعيق الحركة وتسبب مضاعفات زي النزيف الداخلي أو كسر الضلوع وفي أسوء الحالات ممكن تكون السبت تلحق بالرئتين ولذلك لازم أول ماتقع على الارض وتتم محاصرتك تتخذ الوضع الجنيني يعني تحاول تقرب المسافة بين ركبك وراسك وتخبي وشك وايدك على راسك من الجنبين.

في كل الاوضاع ونتيجة للعنف المفرط هتتعرض لإصابة بس الاحسن إنك تخرج بأقل الخساير.

مش محتاج اقولكم طبعا إن راسك تحط ايدك عليها ومتبصش لحد خالص .. ركز بس في انتهز فرصة للهرب عشان ده يساعدك في تحمل الضرب مهما كان.

 .. ملحوظة أخيرة : ركز إيه هو سبب نزولك للشارع من البداية ! ... >> يعني لو نازل تضرب يبقى خليك خفيف متشيلش حاجة تقيلة !

wولو نازل تغطي احداث وتصور يبقى لازم متبينش ده لان ده هيخليك مستهدف ولو كده خليك بعد عن الصفوف الاولى اوي بحيث توسع مكان للمقاتلين وفي نفس الوقت تشتغل بأريحية وأمان تام.

أكيد مش من أول مرة هيكون ادائك هايل بس هي بتيجي بالتعليم والتمرين والتركيز.

ربنا معانا.

Advice in case you are beaten:

In Egypt, you have to get used to street fighting (going back and forth):

1-      When there is a confirmed attack, never look back just look forward and put in mind to run as fast as possible to the far distance possible, with peace of mind and keep your normal breathing rate.

2-      In case of crowdness you may fall down, again, rise up as quick as possible, don’t look back words and keep running.

3-      In case of unequal fighting (your enemy is stronger) make your most important concern to get out of it with the least loss possible, if you carry something big leave it, and if you are caught, make sure you are not arrested.

4-      In case you fall down, of course it is not going to be one security personnel beating you, they will be a group, so do the following:

-          Your most important parts of your body are your legs and arms (movement parts) so avoid anything will affect their movement, injuries, getting broken. If your are beaten in your leg, make sure to position your leg with an angel, never allow the beating to be vertical on your leg, kick whoever beats you, let him beat you in the thigh not in the leg, because your thigh is the strongest muscle in the body, and can absorb the beating.

-          Protect your head with your arms and never look at anyone, focus on escaping by any means; this will make bear the pain and the beating.

5-      Concentrate on the reason why you are in the street, if you are there for fighting, try to be as light as possible, do not put extra luggage with you.

6-      If you are documenting then make sure not to be obvious so as not to be targeted, be away from the front of the battle to give a chance for the fighters and allow yourself to freely document.

Definitely you will not 100% perfect from the first time, you will get used to it by training.

God be with us J 

VIDEO - We are all Khaled Said - Berlin Wall

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We are all Khaled Said – Berlin Wall from Traverse Streetcultures on Vimeo.

New Video : Dr.Gamal Zahran speaking at Occupy cabinet 9-12-2011

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Essawy's stand up comedy

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Arrow > sniper ?

The 2nd Minister of interior General Mansour El-Essawy, Since his first appearance and his first statements, i was curious about this man, May be he has a great sense of humor, he is high 24/7 Or he doesn't exist at all !

Everyone remember his first shocking statements about the existence of snipers in the ministry of the interior denying any relation between the snipers seen on the roof of the ministerial building shooting the peaceful protesters causing many deaths in the first days of the Egyptian uprising back in the 25th of January 2011.

After several months of continuous Black Comedy Mr.Essawy " JUST LEFT " the ministry in the middle of the clashes of Tahrir square -known as 2nd uprising- and wasn't the first time to him to lose control of the field operations because it happened the same way back in ( 28th of June 2011 ) -known as El-Ballon battle- leaving the peaceful unarmed protesters in direct clashes with the brutal Egyptian Central Security Forces.

To make sure of how FUNNY is this man you can just watch his TV interviews and see how he challenges all the evidences against his men depending on the traditional theory of "THE THIRD HIDDEN ELEMENT" despite all the testimonies, videos and photos make him wrong.

After the final resignation Essawy wanted to give us his usual stand up comedy show commenting on the latest events since the 19th of November 2011 till the 24th of November 2011 during his interview with Mr.Mootaz El-Demerdash in Masr El-Gdeda talk show on air denying the death of anyone in Mohamed Mahmoud st. during the last clashes ! not that only he also denied the usage of Tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and live ammunition ! -NB: Man, Are you High ? tell me!!- , Anyway that was predictable from a man who lost control everytime the situation became complicated !

Don't miss Essawy's latest stand up comedy show, From last night !

Important links :

My Videos from #Tahrir square clashes since #19Nov , The second Egyptian uprising فيديوهات من اشتباكات ميدان التحرير والانتفاضة المصرية التانية من يوم 19 نوفمبر  By me.

Meet our new minister of interior !!! by ( Zeinobia ) Egyptian Chronicles

CKUT Voices from Egypt - with Dr. Sabry Khaled re: Tahrir field hospitals & 2nd Revolution

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CKUT Voices from Egypt - with Dr. Sabry Khaled re: Tahrir field hospitals & 2nd Revolution by Lillian Boctor
This interview was broadcast on 29 November 2011 on CKUT 90.3 Montreal radio on The Tuesday Morning After program.

"As voting in the first post-Mubarak Egyptian Parliamentary elections carries on into the second day, the second wave of the Revolution continues in Tahrir Square and throughout Egypt. After a demonstration on Friday, 18 November 2011, calling for an end to military rule, about 200 people, mainly family members of martyrs who died in the January 25 uprisings and people who were previously injured, staged a sit-in at Tahrir Square. Central Security Forces and Egyptian military police violently dismantled the sit-in, and since then, thousands have come together to reoccupy Tahrir Square. The police and military continued to attack protesters throughout the week, in Tahrir and throughout Egypt, with live bullets, extremely potent tear gas and invisible gas, bird-shot, rubber bullets and other ammunition.

During last week’s protests and the ensuing violence by security forces and military police, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s interim government resigned. The ruling military council appointed 78-year-old Kamal El-Ganzouri as Prime Minister, a move strongly opposed by various political parties, revolutionary coalitions and protesters throughout the country, who are calling for a national salvation government that would include presidential candidates Mohamed ElBaradei, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahy.

Attacks on protesters by Central Security Forces and military police killed over 50 people and wounded thousands throughout Egypt. The protesters continue their occupation of Tahrir Square and cities and towns throughout the country demanding that the ruling military council, or SCAF, steps down. In Cairo, protesters are also blocking the Cabinet building, to prevent SCAF-appointed Prime Minister El-Ganzoury from entering."

 By : Lillian Boctor

Video: the killing of Ahmed al Sayed Sorour this morning بالفيديو : استشهاد احمد السيد سرور | ١١.١١.٢٦| شارع مجلس الشعب

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Video by Mosireen

During Cabinet sit-in : Protesters from tahrir square decided to move a part from the main tahrir sit-in to the cabinet in order to prevent El-Ganzoury from entering the building and as mean of showing SCAF their rejection of announcing him as the new PM.

According to MOI official statement : Early in the morning 2 CSF trucks tried to enter the street where protesters have their sit-in in order to reach the MOI when protesters started throwing rocks and molotov cocktail on the trucks which cased PANIC as usual to one of trucks drivers and made him ran over the protester Ahmed El-Sayed Soror. and his death confirmed -may his soul RIP-

Many protesters who where there said that the officers refused to change their direction and take another street despite they were aware of the occupy cabinet sit-in, friends confirmed that they were on purpose and were intending to attack the sit-in.

Not confirmed till now that their is an officer who shot live ammunition.

sit-in continues.

Glory to the Martyrs.

Advices about street wars from Egypt

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click the photo to check the whole set of photos.

During any peaceful protest around the world now, it's not really that safe to join because as we all know that All Cops Are Bastards, All state televisions around the world are a big fatty liars and All governments are traitors, So if the protest or the March ended peacefully thank your God if you have one.

Most of time Things turns nasty SO ! follow these little steps.

So now you have to listen to the voice of reason, i will tell you exactly what you have to do.

1.Focus on the reason why you are leaving home and hitting the streets :
 It's not preferable to do many things at the same time except you are an Egyptian in order to keep your ass safe and reach the goal of your mission,
 If you going to take photos so focus on you camera and the photography equipment only like extra memory cards, extra batteries, etc .. if you want videos so it's preferable to use handy-cams for better zooming abilities. Make sure you upload the photos the moment you get any internet connection.
 If you are going to report the event so you have to take care of the news you are spreading because as we know now the lies get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.
 If you are hitting the streets as any normal protester so enjoy your time chant, sing, hold your banner, dance .. do whatever you want to do.

2.Clothes :
 Wear any thing you will be comfortable with to facilitate your movement like jeans for an example.

3.The bag :
 You have to bring your bag with you but let's review the contents.

• extra battery for your mobile Or charger.
• any type of fruit Orange, apple, guava, .. 
• water.
• tear gas mask or face mask to protect your self from the gases.
• anything can protect your eyes like diving glasses.
• sprayer (50% anti-acidic solution + 50% pure water).
• use anti-acidic solutions which contains of {magnesium hydroxide + aluminum hydroxide + sime thicone} use this mix with water in case of tear gases usage and help others by sprinkling this mix on their eyes and inside the mouth.
• Cotton.

4.During Clashes :

 Don't ever lose you temper, because if you did you will harm yourself and others.

 Don't ever use water to wash your face because you are a human being and humans sweat so the tear gas particles will stick to your skin and as the water touch your face the membranes will inflame so use any cola based product to wash your face, it's preferred to cover your face to avoid all these nasty symptoms. 

From Egypt with love

Sabry Khaled

#19Nov #Tahrir square battle

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Yesterday police Riot forces attacked around 200 peaceful protesters in tahrir square down town Cairo, Police brutality is the same.

Using new tear gas, different types of rubber bullets, police armors and over 1000 police soldier they started to bang the the injured people of the revolution who demand to be treatment and to complete the other revolutionary demands as they were a part of the sit in in tahrir square and other normal protesters with no special political agenda -normal citizens-, arresting many activists, firing a massive amounts of tear gases and rubber bullets directly in the face, targeting eyes, necks and legs.

Around 2 pm yesterday, due to decreased numbers of protesters police forces succeeded in breaking into the square, chasing people, and arresting hundreds.

Thanks to social networks mainly twitter the news were all over the world in less than 10 minutes and all revolutionaries started gathering around tahrir square to support their brothers and sisters against the brutal police officers.


As police entered the square many protesters gained it back using rocks and they took over a police troop transportation car, and set it on fire as a symbolic objection and rejection of the brutality.


It was turned to street wars after that, battles moved from the square to the nearby streets like Mohamed Mahmoud and El-Kasr El-Einy streets.
police forces using their tear gas and many types of rubber and small iron bullets were faced by the protesters with faith using their rocks and Enthusiastic chants.


After 7 hours of street wars protesters were exhausted and messed up so the police condensed their attacks forcing protesters to draw back and empty the square to the near streets.

A group entered Talaat harb st. and the other group escaped to El-Ksr El-Einy st. then to Kasr EL-Nile bridge, to rearrange themselves as the police forces chased protesters till the bridge using the same weapons and even they tried to ran over protesters with the armors more than once on the Kornish st. near Abdel Moniem Riad square.


On field yesterday we all agreed that this brutality is the same police used back in 28th on January on the same place on the same bridge.


it was reported more than 400 injuries yesterday at 7 pm but raised to 800 by the end of the day.
injuries are between suffocation due to tear gases ,minor injuries due to the rubber bullets and many of our friends lost their eyes like the activist and blogger Malek Moustafa and El-Masry El-Youm photographer Ahmed.


protesters gained the square back as the police finished their ammunition and draw back in order to reload. 
numbers of protesters were increased again and took control of the square but it was still raining tear gases and rubber bullets. 

street wars are still going on till this moment i am writing these words.
it is more than 24 hours now.


it was reported from many sources that the are targeting activists to shot and arrest as usual.
As usual state Tv. did it's lies about what happened in the square describing protesters as thugs.
in tahrir square Only one killed with live ammunition his name is "Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed"
Also 2 killed in Alexandria.


i will post videos soon

Judge the Case from a human perspective then we can talk !

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   Now in Egypt it's very normal after any torture accident to see a debate around the dead body ! or actually the owner of this dead body talking about was he a good person Or not ?! Before even mentioning the fact of him been tortured to death and as a traditional conclusion people are divided into two categories;

The 1st. If the man was a good man or let's be straight at this point and say if he was a well educated man with a good looking from a specified social level people will look to him being tortured as a misery and may they trigger a huge campaigns demanding REVENGE ! and you will hear a massive talk about human rights and stuff.

you next

   But what IF ? ...
what if this dead man was a poor, not educated, look like a crap, Or even a prisoner ..
in this case the group of people mentioned above will be divided into two categories !
the first will remain stick to their Principe which is :-
"NO TORTURE WHATEVER THE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND THE CASE"
   Why ?
Because in our revolution we asked for HUMAN DIGNITY ! and EQUALITY between people no matter their color, religion, race, social level .. etc !

And now the 2nd. Group of people - point of view -  :
with a cold blood you will hear talks like
" oh, man he's a thug ! "
" he's a prisoner So how do you want him to be treated ? "
" thank god we getting threw with these creatures "
" i don't care "

For those who adopt this point of view of the second group i will ask them a Question :

Isn't the ( Thug, Poor, Crap looking, Prisoner ... etc ) a human being has the right to be treated with manners worth his humanity ?
What about his mother, sister, father, may be wife and kids ?
His friends ?
LIFE ?

In the 25Th of January demonstrations we were chanting " BREAD .. FREEDOM .. SOCIAL JUSTICE .. HUMAN DIGNITY " but now it's very obvious that many of us not familiar with the human dignity and justice.

Top : khaled saeed , Bottom : Essam Atta , before and after the revolution

One of the huge crimes of all times that Mubarak committed was the separation he planted between the social levels .. between the upper levels and the lower social levels ! and now we are harvesting what he and his regime planted over 30 years , i think we should trial him for creating such cold blooded creatures and the lack of humanity in them !

Whenever a torture accident .. i always ask my self a question !

What if KHALED SAEED was a taxi driver or a convicted criminal tortured to death ?

Yes ! khaled saeed the Icon of the egyptian revolution. 

you know what !

i wouldn't be writing this post now !

During the Revolution we were ONE person , we all EGYPTIANS , we all HUMANS !

The last victim here is Essam Aly Atta who i talked about earlier in the last post and like any other torture victim he had his share in this silly ridiculous debate !

But now let's see how the MOI - ministry of internal - Egyptian police used him as a convicted criminal with a military trial which is against all the human perspectives, they posted on their Official Facebook page  a post mentioning a fake list of cases he did ! and here's the Post .. and through the comments you can see how they exploited Mubarak's crime i mentioned earlier to displace people's attention from the fact of the torture ! which was obvious when some friends saw it's marks on Essam's dead body and as usual we are waiting the fake forensic investigation result they will bring for us ! .. Everyday they bring us another martyr .. another Khaled Saeed .. so ! Wake the Fuck up Egyptians ! they are the same !

But this will not deviate me from the fact that none has the right to torture a human being even if he was a convicted criminal !

We need to rebuild the human culture when it comes to humanity and human rights !

During the revolution we were busy in the streets and the squares fighting for our freedom and forcing Mubarak to step down - notice that i said WE no i - but none imagined what happened in the prisons ! and this is a huge huge huge file full of Dark secrets .. but if that culture remains the same i can promise that none will even think of opening these secrets and dig up the graves of the truth except the few people who know ther real meaning of humanity ..

And the TORTURE " till DEATH " continues

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Now it's 9 months after the start of the Egyptian revolution and our first protest in 25 Jan. 
Even after the revolution and Mubarak Step-down the torture inside the prisons, the police stations, and even in the streets !

The first victim after the revolution was Ahmed the micro-bus driver who was killed by the chef officer of EL-Azbakia police station and till now .. none know what will happen and how we will get our revenge from this PIG !

yesterday another victim fall ...

" Essam Atta " that was his name

Prisoner in Tora prison  that was his last job ! Was serving a sentence of two years due to a military rule .. so we can say that he is the martyr of the military trials too !

The man was tortured because he slipped a SIM card  and presumably a phone to check up on his family from time to time. He was caught and the officer who tortured him, brutally put a water hose in Essam’s mouth, and another one in his anus! - yes ! this is happening in Egypt AFTER a REVOLUTION against the MOI officer's and the way they used to deal with the people with !

The way he was tortured reminding me with the way of Emad El-Keber while he was tortured inside the walls of the state police forces years ago.

The Ironic here is what the Israeli spy who was delivered to Israel in the last days said that US "we" OUR officers treated him well while he was in prison ! - no comment -

For those who ask about the reasons which led him to be tortured before settling on the position of the specific cases of torture and torture in the absolute ; you are STOLID and not human.

Mubarak regime did that to us, the differences between classes and people show their results now in the human rights cases so simply when a rich man see a poor one getting beaten in the street , he may look at him and may not , but if he looked at him , he will say " definitely he's a THUG " - no comment -

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.  Che Guevara