By Muhammad Ghamrawy CAIRO: Shocking photos of dozens of dead stray cats poisoned and bludgeoned to death circulated on social media have revealed “a huge massacre against animals” committed at the prestigious Gezira Club in Zamalek district. Social media users and some Egyptian animal protection organizations launched hashtags on Twitter protesting this cruelty and expressing their rejection to what happened, in preparation to stage a stand in front of the club on Tuesday at 6.pm in protest, according to the Stop Gezira Club massacres Facebook page. “For years now, the club has been following this manner in exterminating and killing stray cats, we have tried more than once to negotiate with them and convince them to keep the cats live, while reducing their numbers through having the cats spayed at the organization’s expense, and we actually did that with about 68 female cats, but the club did not adhere to our initiative afterwards and continued to kill the cats,” said Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA) manager, Mona Khalil to Youm7 on Sunday. Khalil added that they were monitoring violations against cats since 2007, adding that they called the…
