Central Security Forces forcibly broke up a protest staged by the April 6 Youth Movement in front of the Shura Council. The sit-in was organized in protest against what the movement described as the poor treatment of three of its members who are detained at al-Aqrab prison. The three members were arrested at the end of March in front of the interior minister's home and charged with insulting the minister. Central Security conscripts who were deployed around the Shura Council on Sunday allegedly removed two tents set up by members of the April 6 Youth Movement. Founding member Ahmed Maher told Al-Masry Al-Youm that they saw central security remove the tents. He also said that security forces have increased their presence around the parliament building and that several senior officers tried to persuade members of the movement to end their sit-in. Violence erupted between members of the movement on the one hand and other political powers and security forces on the other in Cairo and some governorates on the fifth anniversary of the movement's establishment earlier in the month.
