They have established food distributions, street cleanings, a daily newsletter on protesters’ demands and help for those wounded in clashes with security forces. Were they detained by government security forces? Mohammed, a medic, said fellow doctors had received threats on Facebook while others had been hailed down near Tahrir by people pretending to be protesters. Other suspicious men have tried to provoke fights with security forces. The threats and arrests are contributing to a “climate of fear” eerily similar to the rule of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein, when dissidents were disappeared by security forces or gunned down.

Source: Manila Times November 10, 2019 17:05 UTC