According to an April 6 Youth Movement activist in Tanta, Amr Osama, the sit-in staged there in solidarity with Tahrir demands has been forcefully dispersed by the military earlier on Saturday morning.
Osama says that a military official came to the protesters holding the sit-in and said that they had to move from in front of the governorate headquarters, arguing that it provoked the soldiers, and asked them to move the sit-in elsewhere. However, the demonstrators refused.
Shortly afterwards, another demonstration staged by microbus drivers passed by, said Osama. “The military attacked the microbus drivers’ demonstration which provoked us to chant against the violence. When some of us started taking pictures of the attack, the military attacked us as well, tore down the tent and arrested two of us, attacking one with an electric baton and administering electric shocks”.
He said that April 6 Youth Movement members Ahmed El-Masry and Mohamed El-Saied were arrested but were released shortly afterwards. “A microbus driver, an old man in his seventies, was also beaten and arrested”, says Osama.
It was rumoured on Twitter that a third activist, Khaled Dweik from the National Front for Justice and Democracy, was arrested. However, Osama denied the rumour saying that they thought so at first when they could not find him.
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