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Contraventions are Prevailing in Qina

Contraventions are Prevailing in QinaBy Monir Adeeb Today’s run-offs in Qina governorate are rife with contraventions.  The supporters of the Moslem Brotherhood are taken into custody. Electorate is prevented from casting votes.  The polling stations witness a heavy presence of police, in order to intimidate voters.  Dozens of polling cent

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Contraventions are Prevailing in Qina

By Monir Adeeb
 
Today’s run-offs in Qina governorate are rife with contraventions. 
The supporters of the Moslem Brotherhood are taken into custody. Electorate is prevented from casting votes.
 
The polling stations witness a heavy presence of police, in order to intimidate voters.
 
Dozens of polling centers such as 14, 40, 39, and 38, are closed for the Brotherhood’s nominee enjoys landslide popularity in these polls. In addition, a polling station started voting an hour later.
 
In el-Klasia village, police lay siege to polls. Only the supporters of the National Democratic Party are allowed to give votes. Three representatives of the Brotherhood’s nominee are detained.
 
In polling center no 133, the voting is public; there is no curtain. A monitor of a human right organization is impeded to oversee the voting process.
 
In el-Mafragia village, police terrorize voters, for example, if voters did not elect the NDP’s candidate, they would be detained in a cop van. In addition, some electorate are searched.
 
On the eve of voting, police stormed homes of the Brotherhood’s representatives. In addition, 300 Brotherhood’s members were summoned to the police station to be warned against the participation in the poll. Four were taken into custody, plus.
 
Policemen created a stat of disorder in the streets that stimulated residents to persist to elect the Brotherhood’s nominee, as a kind of vengeance.