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Mass protests in Egypt over Mubarak verdicts
Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage against what they feel are lenient sentences given to ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs. A judge sentenced Mubarak, 84, and his interior minister Habib al-Adly to life in prison on Saturday for involvement…
Egypt Brotherhood’s presidential candidate says continue the revolution
The Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi Saturday called on Egyptians to continue their “revolution” as thousands protested against a controversial verdict in Hosni Mubarak’s trial. Mursi, who faces Mubarak’s last premier Ahmed Shafiq in a run-off on June 16 and 17, said protesters would guarantee a free election and the transfer of power from the ruling military.…
Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
A judge sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. A senior lawyer for Mubarak’s defence team told AFP the strongman, who was taken to a Cairo prison…
Nearly 40% of Egyptians undecided ahead of vote
Nearly 40 percent of Egyptian voters are undecided less than six weeks before the first presidential election since the ouster of veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak, a poll published on Saturday found. A full 38 percent of respondents said they had yet to make up their minds which of the 23…
Egypt marks one year since anti-Mubarak revolt
Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark one year since the launch of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, with activists vowing to revive their unfinished revolution and the ruling army labelling it a day of celebration. Tens of thousands of Islamists, liberals, leftists and ordinary citizens packed the square, the epicentre…
Egypt’s activists gather for mass rally against army
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo for a mass rally they called for on Friday against the military’s handling of protests that killed 17 people and have drawn international criticism of the ruling generals. Protesters who fought soldiers and police in the capital for five days until calm…
Egypt hails election as successful ‘democracy test’
Egypt on Tuesday hailed the start of its first post-revolution election as a triumph for democracy as more voters headed to the polls, boosting turn-out for a vote that had looked in doubt last week. “The birth of the new Egypt,” declared the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday, the second…
Divided Egypt votes in first post-Mubarak poll
Post-revolution Egypt headed to the polls Monday for a chaotic election clouded by violence and a political crisis, the start of a long process to bring democracy to the Arab world’s most populous nation. Ten months after the end of 30 years of autocratic rule by Hosni Mubarak, ousted by popular protests in one…
Egypt braces for protests on eve of elections
Egypt braced for fresh demonstrations on Sunday amid a tense standoff between the country’s military rulers and pro-democracy protesters on the eve of the first elections since the January revolution. Egyptians go to the polls on Monday to cast their first votes for a new parliament after the end of…
Uncertainty surrounds Egypt military’s democracy pledge
CAIRO — Reasons behind a sudden proposal by Egypt’s military authority to swiftly transfer power to civilian rule are far from clear and could be an attempt to undermine the protesters, analysts said. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who took power when Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February, pledged in a…
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