CAIRO - The April 6 activist movement denied that it is planning to foment chaos nationwide next Friday. The movement's co-ordinator Ahmed Maher described as “groundless” a report published by Al-Youm Al-Sabea, which said the report had been prepared by the Public Security Department in the Ministry of the Interior. The report accused the movement of planning to cause chaos in various parts of the country by protesting outside the security directorates in Cairo, Alexandria and Ismailiya, then encouraging young people to attack police stations under the slogan ‘The Hungry Revolution', according to Al-Youm Al-Sabea online. The Ministry urged policemen and commanders nationwide to tighten security on Friday to protect the State's vital institutions, as well as police offices and police stations. Maher stressed that his movement is utterly against violence “which it has never resorted to, either under [Mubarak] or after the revolution”. He said that “the youth of the movement formed a human shield to protect the Ministry of Interior when some people tried to break into the building last Tuesday and Friday”. The movement's spokesman Mohamed Adel said that Egyptians would not be taken in by such fabricated reports. “It is an attempt to deter citizens from taking part in the Friday July 8 demonstrations,” he added, noting that the movement would never use violence or break into an official building or prison, “whatever happens”. Meanwhile, the activist group yesterday said that their open sit-in on July 8 in central Cairo's Al Tahrir Square will be a men-only event. Female members will only take part in the sit-in during daylight hours. The sit-in the movement has called for on the ‘Friday of Determination' will be held under the slogan ‘The Poor First', another spokesman for the group, Ahmed Khorshid, said in a statement, urging the female members of the movement to abide by the decision, according to the official news agency MENA. Khorshid added that the movement's Cairo and Giza branches had taken this decision, while the open sit-in will continue “until the January 25 revolution's demands are met”. These demands are topped with “open and speedy trials for murderers of the [revolutionaries], together with trying the toppled president, Hosni Mubarak, and members of his family, as well as others involved in corruption. The Friday of Determination marks the first time the April 6 movement has called for an open sit-in since Mubarak stepped down on February 11.
