Al-Shorouk journalist Mostafa Fathy’s camera memory card was confiscated and destroyed by a member of security after he photographed Suleiman in the dock.
What started as a good day ended in shit! The police intimidated journalists and photographers covering the Nile Cotton workers sit-in by the parliament, before cracking down on the strikers, using sticks and batons, suspending their sit-in by brutal force…
I'm finally home, but I'm a bit tired so I'll snooze shewaya, but will upload more pix and blog later tonight…
And to the Sheriff of the Sayyeda Zeinab Police Station, who gave us a long patriotic speech, promising the journalists leaving the sit-in that nothing was gonna happen to the strikers: You are a fucking disgusting liar, and hopefully next time I'll snap a picture of your ugly face to add to the Piggipedia…