It's evening in Cairo and a call with Sam reveals that "everything's broken up."
The activity in penned-in areas, documented by Sam here, which were being held indignantly by a large subset of demonstrators determined to exercise some form of speech, despite the Egyptian state's various tactics to suppress it, has now died down and people have dispersed.In an earlier call Sam reported that people were beginning to slowly leave. From Sam's original guess of a thousand participants before the crackdown, to Ali Abunimah's estimate of 300 people penned-in and holding the space to continue their protest, it dwindled to somewhere between one to two hundred people according to Sam. People were allowed to leave the penned-in areas if they needed to, but were not allowed to rejoin.