Egypt's 25th of January Revolution

[Montrealers]

[ifif07]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDl617W3oNk

[egypt69]

Originally Posted by MASRI

Protests in Egypt and unrest in Middle East – live updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blo...leeast-tunisia

Everyone open and follow that link! Great infornation on it!


Cairo a 'war zone' as demonstrators demand president quit

4.07pm: Jack Shenker has just sent me this dramatic update from Egypt. He calls central Cairo a "war zone".

Downtown Cairo is a war zone tonight – as reports come in of massive occupations by protesters in towns across Egypt, the centre of the capital is awash with running street battles. Along with hundreds of others I've just been teargassed outside the parliament building, where some youths were smashing up the pavement to obtain rocks to throw at police.

We've withdrawn back to the main square now were thousands more demonstrators are waiting and a huge billboard advertising the ruling NDP party has just been torn down. Security forces are continuing to use sound bombs and teargas to disperse the crowd, but so far to no avail.

4.03pm: On Al-Jazeera, correspondent Rawya Rageh in Cairo is saying there is "clear anger and frustration being let out" on the streets of Egypt. This has been building up in Egypt for years, she says. Previous calls for protests have yielded "meagre results" – today's demonstrations are "unprecedented" for this "highly apathetic populace". Rageh adds: "Economic hardships have reached a choking limit for Egyptians."


3.57pm: Some interesting tweets from Saud AlSubaie (saudkw):

Armed forces in #Egypt have abandoned shock-sticks for more potent weapons, crowds are massing. Pictures of leader burned. #jan25

Pictures of Husni Mubarak have been torn down in public. 100+ arrested. 3 Major news channels prevented from covering #Egypt #jan25

@KanchanGupta things getting serious over there. Twitter blocked, data services on phones getting cut off sporadically. Tear gas, arrests.

3.40pm: Jack Shenker has checked in from Cairo. He says the internet, Twitter and phone calls were all blocked there, but they are returning intermittently now. Here is his latest update on the protests there:

As darkness begins to fall, the thousands who have occupied Cairo's central square are pouring forward towards the parliament building, prompting running battles with armed police. The air is filled with teargas and some youths are hurling rocks at the police lines; many of the rocks are being thrown back by security officers.

A few moments ago a huge charge from demonstrators sent the riot police running, but they have now regrouped and are launching fresh assaults on the front wave of protesters, who are currently picking up the metal barricades installed by police and using them to set up barricades themselves. Large explosions are shaking the square, though it's not clear where they're coming from.

This is unprecedented guys, Egyptians are on fire! Ya Mubarak Ya Mubarak el so3diya fe entezarak!

Let's finish the job!

[ifif07]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snUxP7W0ONs

[Montrealers]

Hahaha the police was pushed

[Montrealers]

And finally Cnn to report about Egypt. Nothing from french medias or anyone else.

[MASRI]

It is too dark I can barely see anything from the live feed video. But the chants are getting much higher...I wonder what is happening!!

[Montrealers]

International media is almost ignoring the big news in Egypt. Just like they did with Tunisia. I'm not sure why? #Jan25 #Egypt

Alexandria now Some ladies are throwing glasses and cooking pans from their home balconies on the police in the streets #Jan25

Protests continue in Mahalla. The people there are praying their brothers and sisters in Cairo manage to take over the parliament. #Jan25

More to come....

[egypt69]

Guys post whatever you post here, here as well: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=958

Spread the word.

[Montrealers]

Reports of 2 deaths in Alexandria as forces use live bullets and tear gas #egypt #jan25 via @izzy82<< Anyone confirm this?

[Montrealers]

Egypt braced for 'day of revolution' protests

Youth activists, Islamists, workers and football fans to hold rallies and marches against Mubarak government


Egyptian activists with a Tunisian flag as part of anti-government demonstrations Egyptian demonstrators hold a Tunisian flag in an anti-government protest in front of the attorney general's headquarters in Cairo last week. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters

Egypt's authoritarian government is bracing itself for one of the biggest opposition demonstrations in recent years tomorrow, as thousands of protesters prepare to take to the streets demanding political reform.

An unlikely alliance of youth activists, political Islamists, industrial workers and hardcore football fans have pledged to join a nationwide "day of revolution" on a national holiday to celebrate the achievements of the police force.

With public sentiment against state security forces at an unprecedented level following a series of high-profile police brutality cases and the torture of anti-government activists, protest organisers are hoping that a large number of Egyptians will be emboldened to attend rallies, marches and flash mobs across the country in a sustained effort to force concessions from an increasingly unpopular ruling elite.

In a move that suggests the uprising in Tunisia may be spreading to other parts of the Arab world, Tunisian activists announced they would be holding their own protests in solidarity with their Egyptian counterparts, while many Egyptians plan to wave Tunisian flags. Parallel protests are also scheduled to take place outside the Egyptian embassies in London and Washington.

Demonstrators are calling for the sacking of the country's interior minister, the cancelling of Egypt's perpetual emergency law, which suspends basic civil liberties, and a new term limit on the presidency that would bring to an end the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators.

State security officials have branded the protests illegal, and said that those taking part will be dealt with "strictly".

"I'm answering a call that began online, a call to stand up against police brutality on the day the regime wants us to celebrate their so-called achievements," said Salma Said, a 25-year-old activist and blogger who plans to protest in Cairo.

"Of course demonstrating against police brutality means demonstrating against Mubarak himself and his whole regime, because they are the ones who created this system. Momentum is gathering really, really fast; friends I haven't spoken to in years have been ringing me up, promising to come down."

Tomorrow's events, dubbed a "day of revolution against torture, corruption, poverty and unemployment" by protest leaders, were initiated by two dissident movements, both based online. One is dedicated to the memory of Khaled Said, an Alexandrian man beaten to death by police last year, while the other, "6 April", is a youth group named after the date of an uprising two years ago in the Nile delta town of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, in which three people were killed by police.

After initially dismissing the protests, the Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's largest organised opposition force - has now said it will back the demonstrations symbolically, although it has not called on its supporters to take to the streets. Strikes are expected by workers in several parts of the country, including Mahalla, and a number of Egypt's traditional opposition parties and prominent public figures have pledged support.

Mohamed Adel, a spokesman for 6 April, said the broad range of participants distinguished tomorrow's action from previous protests. "It will be the start of something big," he told the Egyptian news outlet Al-Masry Al-Youm.

In a sign of how seriously the Mubarak regime is taking any challenge to its authority following the downfall of Tunisia's president Ben Ali, counter-protests are being organised under the banner of "Mubarak: Egypt's security". Organisers say they want to express their rejection of the "destruction of state institutions" by the opposition, raising fears of violent clashes on the ground.

"Regardless of how many people turn up, these protests will be highly significant," said Nabil Abdel Fattah, a political analyst at the semi-official Al-Ahram Research Centre. "Those confronting the regime on Tuesday will be the sons and daughters of virtual activism - a new generation that has finally found something around which they can unite and rally.They are the product of a government that has never offered them any ideological vision to believe in, and now they have themselves become a symbol of contemporary Egypt."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ution-protests

[Alrayyan]

Okay I am furious over how the media is reacting to this event

No proper reporting !!

[egypt69]

BBC and the other International media has been dumbing down the whole events for some reason, 7000 gathered in Tahrir square in Central Cairo in the past hour alone, 50,000+ at least in Cairo today, some say ggatherings are tripling in size.


Because police blocked some of the bridges, Protesters are even using the nile to get around and spread the protests!

[Montrealers]

That's foreign medias are... When everything will be out of control they will kiss our ass to bring back their economy alliance.

[skizofre3i]

عاجل : بعد غلق تويتر - الحكومة المصرية ستحجب الفيس بوك في خلال ساعتين من الان

[Montrealers]

Wow... But egyptians will keep using proxy's.

[skizofre3i]

خبر غير مؤكد | مقتل 2 من المتظاهرين فى الاسكندريه، الخبر ينتشر بين المتظاهرين ولا نعرف مدى دقة صحته وجارى احضار الاسماء .
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[egypt69]

Originally Posted by skizofre3i

عاجل : بعد غلق تويتر - الحكومة المصرية ستحجب الفيس بوك في خلال ساعتين من الان

WHAT THE! THIS IS TOTALITARIANISM! NO FACEBOOK, NO TWITTER, NO MEDIA REPORTING, WHAT IS THIS!

[Alrayyan]

Praying from all my heart that insha2allah change will come to Egypt and hopefully a ripple effect would occur Media has to get coverage of this quickly !

[skizofre3i]

Originally Posted by egypt69

WHAT THE! THIS IS TOTALITARIANISM! NO FACEBOOK, NO TWITTER, NO MEDIA REPORTING, WHAT IS THIS!

keep using Proxy, Moubarak is afraid because he knows that Facebook was very helpful during the tunisian protestations