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Egypt Protests

The 2011–2012 Egyptian revolution ( thawret 25 yanāyir, Revolution of 25 January) took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011. The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labour strikes.

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Thousands rally against Mubarak -era presidential candidate

Thousands are rallying in the northern Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria against the man who served as Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and who is to face an Islamist candidate in the upcoming presidential runoff.

The protesters say Ahmed Shafiq, who was forced to step down after Mubarak's ouster last year, should not be allowed to run because he was a senior official in the former regime.Shafiq is headed into the June 16-17 runoff against the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohammed Morsi.A former air force commander, Shafiq has cast himself as a strongman who will restore law and order. Opponents view him as the military's favorite.Several hundred protesters also rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising....

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  1. Egypt top prosecutor charges Hosni Mubarak's 2 sons with insider trading, refers them to trial

    Hosni Mubarak's two sons, already in jail for more than a year and on trial, were charged with insider trading Wednesday in a new case against them.A statement by th...

  2. Hosni Mubarak's 2 sons to face trial in Egypt on charges of insider trading

    Hosni Mubarak's two sons were charged Wednesday with insider trading and referred to trial before a criminal court.A statement by the prosecutor-general's office car...

  3. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood scrambling to broaden support ahead of June runoff for president

    The Muslim Brotherhood is scrambling to broaden its appeal to liberals, leftists and Christians after official results Monday showed that the Islamist group's candid...

  4. Mubarak's 2 sons face new charges of insider trading days before verdict in corruption case

    Hosni Mubarak's two sons were accused Wednesday with insider trading in a new case opened just three days before they and their elderly father are to hear the verdic...

  5. With no strong candidate, Egypt's presidential elections expose revolutionaries' disarray

    A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conc...

  6. Tens of thousands protest in Tahrir Square against military rule

    Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping...

  7. Egyptian court convicts policeman for killing protesters , jails him for 5 years

    A criminal court has convicted a policeman on charges of killing protesters during last year's uprising and sentenced him to five years in prison.Mohammed el-Sunni w...

  8. Films from Libya, Syria and Egypt bring the Arab Spring to Cannes Film Festival

    The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a passionate documentary about the overthrow of Libya's...

  9. Egypt's landmark presidential election leaves families divided, exposes generation gap

    Arwa el-Hussein, a 20-year-old pharmacy student, has been quarreling with her father for weeks, trying to get him not to back Hosni Mubarak's former prime minister f...

  10. Beset by years of woes as they pick a new leader, Egyptians search for a superman

    Egyptians say they want their next leader to be honorable, smart, a knight, a man with a heart, a military man, a religious man, one who goes down and meets with the...

  11. Brotherhood and Mubarak veteran likely heading to deeply divisive runoff for Egypt president

    The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime will face each other in a runoff election for Egypt's president, ...

  12. Ex-Mubarak prime minister turned presidential candidate praises 'glorious' Egyptian uprising

    Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq paid tribute to the "glorious revolution" that toppled Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, a dramatic turn-around for the former ...

  1. Egypt's Mubarak sentenced to life in prison for complicity in killings of protesters

    Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak was ferried to court by helicopter Saturday to hear the verdict in his trial on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters...

  2. Guilty or not, verdict in Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization

    Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for p...

  3. Thousands rally in Egypt for disqualification of Mubarak -era presidential candidate in runoff

    Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Egypt on Friday to demand that Ahmed Shafiq, a former senior official in Hosni Mubarak's ousted regime, be d...

  4. Egypt's Islamist presidential candidate cashing in on resentment of old regime

    The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential runoff promised Tuesday he would break sharply with the ways of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, a day...

  5. Egypt's Islamist candidate reassures women, Copts, while challenger's HQ burned down

    The presidential candidate for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood wooed Christians, women and supporters of the ruling military Tuesday in a bid to expand his base of suppor...

  6. Crowd attacks candidate's office as violence flares after Egypt election results announced

    A mob set fire late Monday to the campaign headquarters of one of the two Egyptian presidential politicians facing each other in a runoff that will decide a new lead...

  7. For first time in 31 years, Egypt no longer under emergency law that gave police broad powers

    Egypt's notorious emergency law expired Thursday, ending 31 years of broad powers to detain and arrest for a police force accused of severely abusing its far-reachin...

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