El-Sherif leads one-million march

Originally published March 6, 2003

Minister of Information and Secretary General of the National Democratic Party (NDP)led the one-million march gathered in the Cairo stadium to express rejection for war on Iraq and call for stopping Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

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