A brutal scene is unfolding on the streets of Cairo. Journalist Bel Trew is on the scene and is tweeting developments as they occur:<\/p>\n\n\n
Fucking hell. The police shot at, beat and stripped a man, dragged him across concrete. Dragged him naked, his face scrapping the ground.<\/p>\n
— Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Praying for this man who is probably being sodomised in the police truck right now. He was naked they dragged him like a piece of meat<\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @sarahcarr<\/a> it’s live. I’m here and it happened in front of my eyes.<\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n They dragged the protester they stripped naked and beat into the other #csf<\/a> truck. God knows what they’re doing to him #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n They took the stripped and beaten protester away. After dragging him along the concrete. I don’t know what has happened to him<\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n It’s brutal brutal here. Police have control of streets firing a lot of shot guns. Beating people they catch viciously. #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n The police were saying ‘go get him, go get him’ and laughing before they caught the protester, they stripped&dragged on the ground #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Gunfire continuous. Mixture of sound, birdshot and tear gas. Battle by and in school opposite costa no longer near prez palace #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n I want to repeat the police were laughing and shouting ‘go get him’ before capturing,stripping,beating and dragging man #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Watching police picking up rocks as they run. Protesters on roof of school throw down molotov. Police shoot gas over wall of school #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n The stripping and beating of the protester was captured on video (warning: graphic):<\/p>\n\n\n video: the egyptian police stripping and beating a protestor, while firing birdshot into a crowd from an armored car youtube.com\/watch?v=LJBFYE…<\/a><\/p>\n — David D. Kirkpatrick (@kirkpatricknyt) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n #Egypt<\/a> security forces no longer ashamed to do their dirty work in public. Disturbing video.bit.ly\/WkaoCe<\/a><\/p>\n — benwedeman (@bencnn) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n More:<\/p>\n\n\n Int min orders investigation into dragging and beating naked man<\/p>\n — Samer Al-Atrush(@SameralAtrush) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Heard at Ittihadiya today: “Dictator after dictator, Mohamed Morsi your turn is next.” (rhymes in Arabic). #Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n — benwedeman (@bencnn) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Tweeters are shocked by the assault on the protester’s dignity:<\/p>\n\n\n when you strip a man when you strip a woman you strip the nation. #Egypt<\/a> #morsi<\/a> #csf<\/a><\/p>\n — Amr no 2 #MB (@Cairo67Unedited) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Some are likening today’s incident to the much-publicized beating of a girl in a blue bra<\/a> that took place in Tahrir Square in December 2011:<\/p>\n\n\n Still won’t change things MT @shadirahim<\/a> Will beating of man–stripped, kicked, dragged by CSF caught on TV be “blue bra girl” of MB regime?<\/p>\n — Ghazala Irshad (@ghazalairshad) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Once was blue bra girl. Today naked man. Once were viginity checks. And tomorrow? #Egypt<\/a> where do u think u’re going? english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/63843.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n — Claude Guibal (@ClaudeGuibal) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Blue bra girl,stripped naked by army under #SCAF<\/a> . Man stripped naked by CSF under #MorsiMubarak<\/a><\/p>\n — Nada Wassef (@Nadawassef) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n ***<\/p>\n Update: Egyptian state media claims the protester took off his own clothes. Really:<\/p>\n\n\n يا لهوي !!!“@mokhbersahafi<\/a>: State radio reporter at ittihadiya says the protester took off his clothes !!!”<\/p>\n — Samar Al Gamal (@SamarAlGamal) February 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Update:<\/p>\n The protester says he was beaten by protesters and helped by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n State TV airs segment explaining how ‘stripped man’ was attacked by protesters and saved by the police. | ONA #Egypt<\/a> #Morsi<\/a><\/p>\n — Egyptocracy (@Egyptocracy) February 2, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n The police saved him … by beating him?<\/p>\n\n\n Hamada Saber apparently says protesters stripped him and police were helping him,can’t confirm who stripped him but know what I saw<\/p>\n — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) February 2, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n The infamous poor man in the video was coerced to say the protesters stripped him & the police saved him. Mubarak regime is alive and well.<\/p>\n — The Big Pharaoh (@TheBigPharaoh) February 2, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Man is saying this, most likely (and his daughter says), because he has been beaten\/intimidated and is in a police hospital.<\/p>\n — Evan Hill (@evanchill) February 2, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/01\/shocking-video-egyptian-police-beat-and-strip-protester-in-cairo\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Beltrew\/status\/297434222740766720 A brutal scene is unfolding on the streets of Cairo. Journalist Bel Trew is on the scene and is tweeting developments as they occur: Fucking hell. The police shot at, beat and stripped a man, dragged him across concrete. Dragged him naked, his face scrapping the ground. — Bel Trew – بل ترو (@Beltrew) … Continue reading Shocking video: Egyptian police beat and strip protester in Cairo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14356360317531-screen-shot-2013-02-01-at-2-32-07-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}