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From Shehab Fakhry

PROTEST

Demand Release of Jailed Egyptian Protesters!

What: Picket at the Egyptian Consulate! Where: 500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite #1900 When: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 12:30pm

Activists in the U.S . will picket the Egyptian embassy and consulates in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and San Francisco on Tuesday, May 9 at 12:30PM (local times) demanding the immediate release of all jailed pro-democracy protesters arrested from April 24–27, 2006, in Cairo. Dozens of opponents of Egypt's authoritarian government were assaulted and arrested after riot police attacked a demonstration in support of reformist judges who are challenging election fraud. Journalists covering the protests have been attacked and threatened by police, and in a separate incident, the chief of the Al Jazeera TV bureau has also been arrested.