Resistance committees planning to outmanoeuvre security forces

Leading resistance committee member Ahmed Musab told MEE earlier on Saturday that the committees have a plan to outmanoeuvre the security forces until demonstrators turn up in larger numbers.

“We have the field committees assessing the situation all the time, analysing the movements of the enemy and deciding on the next steps for the protesters in each neighbourhood. We used the same tools of mobilisation but in a decentralised way in order to escape from the tracking of the security organs. We begin the protests from inside the narrow streets in the neighbourhoods, and when we gather big numbers we go out to the main roads until we meet those from nearby neighbourhoods, and expand again, and so on,” he told MEE.

“It’s not clear whether we will stage a sit-in in a central place in the city or if each neighbourhood will protest in a decentralised way. But we see that the protests are increasing rapidly and I can say that the civil disobedience has already succeeded and the sit-ins are very close," he added.