CAIRO: Egyptian youth across the country organized protests on Sunday at universities and in central squares in solidarity with Tahrir protesters who were violently dispersed on Saturday.
"We started with a protest in front of Assuit Security Directorate at dawn condemning the police brutality, then we organized another march in Assuit University," activist Ahmed Gamal told Daily News Egypt Sunday.
Gamal said that the march gathered around 1,000 protesters who toured the university.
Another march is planned to take place Sunday night in front of El-Hilaly Mosque in central Assuit.
In the Delta city of Mansoura, thousands of protesters marched from the university to the governorate building, activist Mohammed Hamama told DNE.
A report published by Ahram Online regarding the killing of a citizen by a police officer in a village near Mansoura could not be confirmed, according to Hamama.
"We are thinking of holding a sit-in near the governorate building but no decision has been made yet," Hamama said.
In Alexandria, thousands commemorated martyr Bahaa El-Senosy, founder of the Egyptian Current Party in Alexandria, who was allegedly shot by police forces on Saturday while protesting in front of the Alexandria Security Directorate.
"El-Senosy’s death certificate said that he was hit by a heavy object on the head, which is not true," activist Mahmoud El-Hady told DNE.
"I saw a bullet shot in his head, I was standing next to him when he was killed," El-Hady added, confirming that over 37 protesters were arrested and are currently being interrogated by the prosecution, seven of them are women.
Other marches are planned to begin at night in Port Said and Qena.
Meanwhile, in Cairo, the Qasr El-Nil prosecution is interrogating 53 protesters including four women arrested Saturday by police forces, on charges of illegal gathering, vandalizing public and private property, obstructing traffic and attacking civil servants with rocks and empty bottles.
Lawyer with Al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims Mohammed Abdel Aziz said that the police investigation report vindicates police forces from injuring protesters and accuses the protesters of injuring other protesters.
"The report says that the arrested protesters are the ones who used tear gas bombs and rubber bullets and injured other protesters," Abdel Aziz wrote in a tweet, adding that some of the arrested protesters are being interrogated as victims.
The interrogations were still ongoing at press time.
