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Protest for women's equality in Egypt ends in violence - Monsters and Critics

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1624512.php/Pr...

....."A protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day turned violent when a few hundred women were drowned out by an equal number of men protesting angrily against demands for equality. The so -called 'Million Woman March to Tahrir Square', which has become the hub of Egypt's protests, was expected to draw out thousands of women. However, the peaceful women-led demonstration to demand a greater role in politics and equality turned violent with the army firing warning shots into the air to disperse men who clashed with one another as a few hundred women were caught in the middle. In a twist to the slogan 'Down with the regime' -widely chanted throughout the anti-government protests that led to the ouster of Hosny Mubarak as president -several men chanted 'Down with women.' 'It's clear that the demonstration for women in Tahrir has turned into a demonstration for sexual harassment,' said Wael Abbas, an activist, as reports of women being sexually
harassed at the protest emerged.".....

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