Following the 25th of January 2011 Revolution , on the 4th & 5 March 2011 , several SSI buildings were raided across Egypt by protesters . Protesters state they raided in the buildings to secure documents they believed to show various crimes committed by the SSI against the people of Egypt during Mubarak 's rule . On the night of 5 March in Cairo , " the sight of a dump truck emerging from the Cairo compound laden with shredded paper sent protesters into a fury , creating the momentum that drove the crowd past the army soldiers outside and into the hastily abandoned main building . " Most notably at the Nasr City HQ in Cairo were many acquired documents which seemed to prove mass surveillance of citizens as well as torturing tools and secret cells . Protesters broke into the building in Alexandria on March 4 , after clashing with security forces , and on March 5 others entered the headquarters in the central city of Assiut . In Cairo , another building breached was in 6th of October City , where " some of the most incriminating documents have already been destroyed . " McClatchy Newspapers reported that , when there was much uncertainty about the validity of documents which emerged , " p erhaps the most controversial document to ricochet around Internet message boards was one that purport ed to lay out State Security 's involvement in the deadly church bombing on New Year 's Day in the port city of Alexandria . ... The legitimacy of the document has n't been determined , but its distribution touched off protests Sunday in Cairo by hundreds of Coptic Christians . " Other documents uncovered included names of judges involved in fixing elections and those of a small number of Egyptians who were informants . The publishing of these names posed a moral dilemma for some of the protesters , balancing the danger the informants would be put under against anger at having been spied on
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