Activists, say they have little space in which to operate in Egypt, where protest is effectively banned.
Egypt created a designated area for the protest this year, but it is fenced off and guarded by police, away from the main conference. Around 30 Egyptian youths gathered there in a neat line holding up placards and chanting"Save our"That doesn't make any sense to for us... The idea is to make noise... to interrupt and disrupt things, under of course a peaceful mindset," Gadir Lavadenz told Sky News. Otherwise, it's not a protest, he added.
She added:"If they are not being heard in the big rooms, these closed meetings, they have to be heard somewhere." They also accuse Cairo of stifling protest by holding COP27 in the Red Sea resort town, rather than the much busier capital. Several have complained of overbearing security checks, and western security advisers are warning against downloading the Egyptian government's official COP27 app, fearing it could be used to hack private calls and messages, Politico has reported.
An Egyptian MP, Amr Darwish, a staunch defender of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's rule, interrupted her during an address in the UN conference zone on Tuesday and was quickly ejected from the room.
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