No sign of strike in Egypt: official
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
CAIRO (AFP) — A nationwide call for a day of protest against price hikes and curbs on freedom across Egypt on Sunday failed to draw any response, a security official said.
"There is no sign of protest anywhere. But there is tighter security, with riot police trucks stationed in downtown Cairo and in (the northern industrial city of) Mahalla just in case," the official told AFP.
Egyptians went to work as normal and Cairo traffic was heavy, AFP reporters said, despite a month-long call by cyber-dissidents to stay at home or wear black as a sign of mourning for the state of the country.
The most visible sign of protest came from about 15 people chanting "Down, down with Hosni Mubarak" outside the Lawyers' Syndicate in downtown Cairo, an AFP journalist reported....
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