katie in cairo, egypt: 05/28/06

Police beating demonstraters who were protesting in downtown Cairo over the arrest of two judges who called the 2005 presidential elections "fraud"

Plainclothes police officers struggling with Egyptian protestors in downtown Cairo

Egyptian riot police

Plainclothes police officers beating protestors in the street

Police taking control

Riot police

Egyptian protestors (the small book is a Quran)

Egyptian police and state security (including many plainclothes officers) chasing down protestors

Police detaining protestors in downtown Cairo

Demonstrators suffered numerous injuries and abuse by the police...some have even accused the police of "torture" after detainment

Police beating demonstraters who were protesting in downtown Cairo over the arrest of two judges who called the 2005 presidential elections "fraud"

katie in cairo, egypt