Reports from the Cairo Protests

A grab bag of reports on today's 6 April protests and the government's heavy handed, but apparently successful, attempts to neutralize them:

• Sallie Pisch at Bikya Misr offers roundup of the day's events;
• #6april at Twitter (mix of English and Arabic);
• #6APRIL at Twitter;
  
• #anhri at Twitter (Arabic)
  
• A report at Daily News Egypt;

On the whole, like last year, those attempting to protest were met with a show of state force, and as some of the reports note, the absence of ElBaradei is apparently leading to criticism by many. As for Ayman Nour, he was reported holed up in the Al-Ghad Party HQ, which was surrounded by police.

Cairo is not Tehran, and while the April 6, 2008 labor protests were spontaneous, the 2009 and 2010 efforts to repeat them have fizzled in the face of determined state power.