{"id":296548,"date":"2011-03-09T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/egypt-clashes-erupt-in-tahrir-square\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:35:36","slug":"egypt-clashes-erupt-in-tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/egypt-clashes-erupt-in-tahrir-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Clashes Erupt in  Tahrir Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.9033951698\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 9 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>In Egypt people armed with knives and machetes attacked pro-democracy activists in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian state television showed footage of rocks being thrown and people being chased away.<\/p>\n<p>Ashraf Balbaa, secretary general of the National Association for Change, a pro-democracy umbrella group, told RFI that &#8220;these counter-revolutionaries are remnants of the regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The remnants of the National Democratic party, the NDP and the state security investigation bureau are an army of thugs. They are trained and directed towards a counter-revolution,&#8221; said Balbaa.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes took place as the new cabinet met with the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The cabinet is to propose a law criminalising incitement to hatred. The sentence for those found guilty could carry the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, violence between Coptic Christians and Muslims left 10 people dead and many more wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood had earlier blamed the remnants of former president Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s regime for inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110309-clashes-erupt-cairos-tahrir-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103090905.html\" title=\"Egypt: Clashes Erupt in  Tahrir Square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egypt: Clashes Erupt in  Tahrir Square<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 March 2011 In Egypt people armed with knives and machetes attacked pro-democracy activists in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square on Wednesday. Egyptian state television showed footage of rocks being thrown and people being chased away. Ashraf Balbaa, secretary general of the National Association for Change, a pro-democracy umbrella group, told RFI that &#8220;these counter-revolutionaries are remnants of the regime.&#8221; &#8220;The remnants of the National Democratic party, the NDP and the state security investigation bureau are an army of thugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt: Clashes Erupt in Tahrir Square - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/egypt-clashes-erupt-in-tahrir-square\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Egypt: Clashes Erupt in Tahrir Square - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"9 March 2011 In Egypt people armed with knives and machetes attacked pro-democracy activists in Cairo&#039;s Tahrir Square on Wednesday. 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