Police beat election fraud protesters

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Brian Whitaker and agencies in Cairo
Friday May 12, 2006
The Guardian

Thousands of riot police broke up protests in Cairo yesterday, as crowds gathered to support two judges facing a disciplinary committee over their complaints about fraud in last year's parliamentary elections.

Security officers attacked demonstrators, dragging some away. Three plainclothes police beat a photographer working for Reuters, confiscating one camera and smashing another, and an al-Jazeera cameraman was badly beaten.

Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham Bastawisi, the judges, have refused to attend the hearing, which was adjourned for a week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1772994,00.html

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1. A sign of things to come in the U.S.A. ? n/t