Three protestors were arrested, charged and are expected to appear in court in June.
On 9 June, tragically two protestors were killed by a drunk driver.
Celine, 73, is among the five protestors, who take it in turns to go without food.
The police had said they were "outnumbered" at the protest, where five protestors were arrested and one charged.
Violence between police and students escalated, culminating on October 14, 1973, when government forces killed more than a hundred protestors.
As authoritarian governments often do, the one in Cairo is deluding itself about the causes for the unrest, which had left two protestors and one policeman dead.
Charges against two protestors have already been dropped, while five minors, who are aged between 15 and 17, have had all charges against them thrown out.
But the canal has plenty of skeptics, including several hundred protestors who blocked roads and clashed with police during the groundbreaking.
In Sao Paulo, on May 20th, during a demonstration by homeless families, three protestors were killed by trigger-happy police.Still, visible though they are, such protests involve only minorities.
Recent marches have attracted only a few hundred protestors, while approval of the president, Dilma Rousseff, has resurged after plummeting last summer.
