A New Cairo Court judge has extended by 15 days the detention of three members of April 6 Youth Movement, arrested in late March when protesting outside the residence of Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim in Nasr City.
Mohamed Mostafa, Zizo Abdo and Mamdouh Abu Adam face charges of resisting authorities, intentional damage of public and private propery, and rioting. The three have denied these charges.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Central Security Forces forcibly broke up a protest staged by the April 6 Youth Movement in front of the Shura Council. The sit-in was organized in protest against what the movement described as the poor treatment of three of its members detained at al-Aqrab prison.
Central Security conscripts who were deployed around the Shura Council on Sunday allegedly removed two tents set up by members of the April 6 Youth Movement.
Founding member Ahmed Maher told Al-Masry Al-Youm that they saw central security remove the tents. He also said that security forces have increased their presence around the parliament building and that several senior officers tried to persuade members of the movement to end their sit-in.
Violence erupted between members of the movement on the one hand and other political powers and security forces on the other in Cairo and some governorates on the fifth anniversary of the movement’s establishment earlier in the month.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
