Next 6 April might be a bloody one

Legal Notice To Cairo Head of Security Youth To Stage A Peaceful March for Declaration of Refusal of Extension of Emergency State Which They Spent Their Lives Enduring Cairo on 29/3/2010 Legal Support Unit for freedom of expression at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information declared, today ,that they have sent the legal notice # 2636/2010 to Cairo Head of security . ANHRI, being the legal representative of a group of Egyptian young people, informed Cairo Head of security of the intention of this group, who have spent their lives under emergency law, to stage a peaceful protest march on 6th April , 2010. The march is planned to start from Tahrir Square to Parliament House in order to deliver a message of rejection to MPs, that extending of the state of emergency is entirely refused and the marchers will also demand MPs not to vote for state of emergency extension. In the legal notice it was stated that, “The continued state of emergency for more than twenty nine years, indicates that the Egyptian government has either failed to overcome the causes of this unusual situation and eliminate the risk elements allegedly justifying emergency state extension all these long years ,or that the government can no longer control or tolerate opponents or critics of official policies except by enforcing such an unfair law. Marchers are willing to stage a peaceful protest march to express their opinion and request MPs not to approve of any more extensions to emergency law enforcement”. The lawyers of the Arabic Network, as official representatives of these young people, sent a legal notice to Cairo Head of security , as per Act # 14 /1923, which stipulates notifying security with time and place of any peaceful march three day ahead. Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said, “These young people, despite the cruelty of such unfair emergency law, have abided to law and notified Cairo Head of security that they are determined to exercise their right in staging this protest march as a core practice of freedom of expression.” The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information calls on Cairo Head of security to commit to law and to allow the march to stage, as per article # 54 of the Egyptian Constitution, which states: “Citizens have the right to private peaceful meeting without arms and without need for prior notice. It is not permissible for security to attend such private and public meetings. Processions and gatherings are permitted within the law”. March starts at noon, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Course of march: from Tahrir Square, through Kasr AlAini street, to Parliament House It is noteworthy that the 6 April movement unified with other movements and other political powers to demonstrate next 6 of April to the demand of changing the contitutional articles and for nolify the emergency law