Egypt: Reports of Police Brutality, Arrests and Live Ammuntion · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.
More reports are emerging of arrests and police harassment and brutality, as Egyptians rise for the for the third day in a row. There are also reports of deaths but the details and exact toll remain sketchy.
Dima Al Khatib announces:
DAY 3 of Egyptian Uprising: 1000 people arrested or more so far, according to independent legal sources  #jan25 #egypt
Ahmed Abd El-Fatah tweets:
Shawky Ragab adds:
And @shmpOngO notes:
They r arresting the injured protesters from hospitals #jan25 #egypolice
An Egyptian showing the bullet wounds on his back. Picture by Gigi Ibrahim
Gigi Ibrahim shares those injuries in this photograph and tweets:
I have one of those on my back..it still hurts http://yfrog.com/h290794515j #EgyPolice #Jan25 down with pigs!
And the Guardian‘s reporter in Cairo Jack Shenker, who was beaten and arrested alongside protesters in Cairo, files this harrowing recording while locked up in the back of a security forces truck with scores of protesters.
Meanwhile, Farrah reports on the use of a “yellow chemical spray” on protesters at a protest in Ismailia. She tweets:
Central forces in Ismaley-ya are currently spraying a yellow chemical
spray on protesters which makes them dizzy &lose thier balance #jan25
And Ian Lee, tweeting from a protest in Suez, writes:
Rocks fill the air. Protesters charging. Suez. Reports of live rounds being used. #jan25
This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.