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Black travel warning issued for country as protesters gather outside Egyptian consulateA demonstration was held outside Egypt’s consulate by the League of Social Democrats and Socialist Action yesterday, as the government urged residents to avoid all travel to the country.新蒲崗迷你倉More than 40 protesters gathered at the consulate on Gloucester Road in Causeway Bay. Protesters shouted slogans and waved posters that read: “Stop the violent oppression of the Egyptian people” and “Shame on the Egyptian police”.A spokesman for the Egyptian consulate said it had no problem with the protest.“They are within their rights to protest here and we accept that,” the spokesman said. “It’s perfectly fine. We have no issue with that at all.”A government spokesman advised all Hongkongers thinking of travelling to Egypt to change their travel plans. “Residents are urged to avoid all travel to the country,” said the spokesman.“Those already there should attend to their personal safety and avoid protests and large gatherings of people.”With the situation in Egypt continuing to demini storageeriorate, the government raised the outbound travel alert for the country to black on Thursday – the highest level in its three-tier alert system. Egypt had been on a red travel alert since March 2011.The order to change the alert to black was issued after supporters of the deposed Islamist president Mohammed Mursi torched two local government buildings amid a crackdown that has killed at least 600 people.The Security Bureau said it would continue to monitor the situation in Egypt. Any update would be issued through the bureau’s outbound travel alert webpage, at sb.gov.hk/eng/ota.Hong Kong residents in Egypt who need assistance can call the 24-hour Assistance to Hong Kong Residents hotline at +852 1868 or contact the Chinese embassy in Egypt on the 24-hour duty phone: +20 227380466 or +20 227363556.The only other countries on black alert are war-torn Syria and the Philippines. Syria has been on a black travel alert since April 2011, and the Philippines since seven Hong Kong tourists and their guide were shot dead by a hijacker in August 2010 in Manila.self storage