Cairo’s Band of Geeks Survives Tahrir Square Assault. Updated Feb. 3, 5 p.m.
Eastern with video (above). CAIRO — For three days, the geeks and online activists and DIY filmmakers protested peacefully here in Tahrir Square. For three nights, they slept in tents with their laptops by their sides and kept their mobile phones charged by hacking into one of Tahrir’s street lights. On the fourth day, Wednesday, the lynch mob came and encircled them. Thousands of people supporting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid siege to the central plaza, pressing themselves into the four streets that lead into Tahrir.
Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: The Battle of Tahrir Square. 0200 GMT: With relative quiet in Egypt, we're going to take a break until Scott Lucas resumes in a few hours with the Friday LiveBlog. 0118 GMT: Al Jazeera TV just announced that Reuters quoting the New York Times reports that the US is discussing a proposal with Egyptian proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately and for a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman to take power.
We cannot confirm this as of yet. Latest Egypt Video: The Battle of Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt in Pictures: Wednesday's Protests Egypt in Pictures: The Women of the Protests Turkey's Message for Egypt: "Democracy Shall Win" Wednesday's LiveBlog: Towards the Day of Departure The story on the New York Times reads: The process would include all opposition parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
Chaîne de AlJazeeraEnglish. Crise en Égypte : Une équipe de Radio-Canada agressée. Jean-François Lépine raconte les circonstances de l'agression.
Les affrontements sanglants en cours au centre du Caire rendent le travail journalistique périlleux. Ahmed Moor: The people are undaunted, they have held Tahrir, anything less than Mubarak’s ouster means nighttime arrests by the secret police. Ahmed Moor in Cairo spoke today to Phil Weiss.
The people who started the violence today were secret police. We know this because often they were caught and their ids were found. The method was, they would try to start problems– these muhabarat-looking guys–and the protesters set upon them very quickly Do pro-Mubarak protesters represent a real strand of public opinion? No. I’m happy to say that I don’t think any of the animals were hurt. We got very scary reports today from Tahrir, including the word massacre. I just got back [at 8 p.m. Egypt: Litany of Abuses Fueled Protesters' Fury. WASHINGTON - In Egypt, where protestors continued to demonstrate Tuesday for the eighth day in a row, the use of torture by law enforcement officials over the past two decades has contributed to the growing unrest, rights groups say.
In a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international advocacy group claims the practice is endemic and often practiced with impunity. "Egyptians deserve a clean break from the incredibly entrenched practice of torture," said Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Division at HRW, in a statement.
"The Egyptian government's foul record on this issue is a huge part of what is still bringing crowds onto the streets today. " Dear Hosni: Please go NOW. Dear Hosni: Please go NOW Glen Oglaza February 02, 2011 3:45 PM What we are witnessing in Cairo is horribly familiar, the classic behaviour of cornered dictators around the world: Send in a rent-a-mob, liberally scattered with secret police armed with knives, clubs and machetes, attack the anti-government protestors, cause enough violence and chaos until the army has no choice but to intervene to restore order. The message from Washington, from Downing Street, from the EU, and this afternoon from the UN in the shape of Ban Ki Moon is still dressed in diplomatic language - but only just: David Cameron summed it up: There must be an orderly transition to a "broad-based government", the "process of change needs to begin immediately....the process of transition needs to begin now" and "The Egyptian government must set out...a clear road map for change.
" The message to President Hosni Mubarak could hardly be clearer: It is time to go, and go NOW. APPEAL SAVE EGYPT ! ( SaveEgypt.org ) « Occupied Palestine. Egypt protests: Mubarak shows his dark side. Hosni Mubarak supporters ride horses during a clash between pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters.
Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images Hosni Mubarak launched his counter-revolution today, sending waves of armed thugs to do battle with pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo and other cities. The attacks, reportedly involving plainclothes police and vigilantes as well as pro-regime citizens, appeared to be carefully co-ordinated and timed. And the army, which only days earlier had sworn to protect "legitimate" rights of protesters, stood back and watched as the blood flowed. This ugly turn of events should come as no surprise. Mubarak was never quite a dictator in the Saddam Hussein or Robert Mugabe mould. Égypte : Bataille rangée dans les rues du Caire. Opposants et partisans de Moubarak se sont livré une bataille rangée à la place Tahrir, au Caire.
Live blog Feb 2 - Egypt protests. From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez.
Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3 The Battle for Egypt - AJE Live Stream - Timeline - Photo Gallery - AJE Tweets - AJE Audio Blogs (All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2) Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Towards the Day of Departure. Les dernières infos et analyses sur les événements égyptiens. Neuvième jour de manifestations mercredi 2 février en Egypte pour demander le départ du président Hosni Moubarak.Les manifestants pro et anti-Moubarak s'affrontent violemment place Tahrir, le bilan officiel fait état d'un mort (un militaire) et de 400 blessés.Moubarak a annoncé à la télévision qu'il n'a pas l'intention de s'enfuir, mais qu'il ne briguera pas un nouveau mandat.Obama demande que la transition «commence maintenant»A lire aussi le fil des évènements de la journée de mardi et des jours précédents.
Who is behind the Egyptian protests? Viewed from above, the protests in Egypt have been impressive to watch on television, with hundreds of thousands of people in motion.
In some reports, it's portrayed as a spontaneous eruption, a leaderless rebellion. But behind the scenes, a panoply of activists and groups are responsible for organising, directing and sustaining the movement against President Hosni Mubarak and his cronies. Young, angry and organised In particular, a movement led by tech-savvy students and twentysomethings – labour activists, intellectuals, lawyers, accountants, engineers – that had its origins in a three-year-old textile strike in the Nile Delta and the killing of a 28-year-old university graduate, Khaled Said, has emerged as the centre of what is now an alliance of Egyptian opposition groups, old and new.
At the core of the revolt is the April 6 Youth Movement, which runs a veritable war room in downtown Cairo, issuing leaflets, internet missives and guidances to the crowds filling Tahrir Square. Egypt protests - live updates. It's after 2am in Cairo – time to wrap up the live blog for the evening, although we'll be keeping a close eye on an outbreaks of further violence. Here are the highlights this evening: • At least three people were killed and as many as 1,500 injured in a day of violence in central Cairo, as supporters of the Mubarak regime appeared in force. Protesters found plainclothes policemen among them • Fighting continued around Tahrir Square past midnight, with both sides building barricades and pro-government supporters throwing molotov cocktails, setting fire to cars and buildings while the army refused to intervene • The US government incrementally increased its pressure on Mubarak to step down and for reforms to take place, with Hillary Clinton speaking directly to vice president Omar Suleiman • Pro-government forces appear to have arrested or attacked journalists reporting on the bloody events in Cairo.
Les manifestations dégénèrent au Caire. Egypt army wants protests ended - Middle East. The Egyptian army has called for protesters rallying for a ninth day against President Hosni Mubarak's regime to go home and "return to normal life. " In a call for protesters to leave the streets, Ismail Etman, a military spokesman said on state television on Wednesday: "The army forces are calling on you ... You began by going out to express your demands and you are the ones capable of restoring normal life. "I call on the conscious youth of Egypt, honest men of Egypt, we should look forward to future, think of our country, Egypt.
Egypt in Pictures: Wednesday's Protests. A Wounded Anti-Mubarak Protester Prays.