 Sudanese asylum seeker Napoleon Roberts told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme how Egyptian riot police forcibly moved him, along with some 3,000 others, from the park in Cairo where they have been living in protest for the past three months. We have been kept here, in a military barracks, since this morning. I would say that right now there are about 1,700 of us here. There's no water for drinking and no bathrooms. People are staying still, suffering from their wounds on their bodies. It's very discomforting. We don't know what is happening - no-one from the government has spoken to us, to tell us why we have been moved here. They dragged us from the park where we had been living in protest to here. They sprayed us with water canons and then beat us with sticks. Some people have been killed. ...
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