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Two ANSWER organizers, Salma Elshakre and Omar Ali, both Egyptian nationals recently returned from a visit home, offered their assessments of the ongoing struggle at an ANSWER forum.
Los oponentes del presidente Morsi convocaron una huelga general para manifestarse en contra del apresuramiento en la elaboración de la propuesta constitucional y los decretos emitidos por Morsi para fortalecer su mandato.
Protests continue against Morsi not only because of the new constitution and his sweeping powers, but because many of Mubarak’s policies have continued under the new government.
For the first time, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, banned since 1948, has become president of Egypt, but the Mubarak regime survives through the SCAF.
A year after Mubarak’s ouster as president, the Egyptian people went to the polls May 23 and 24 to elect the fifth Egyptian president. Results were expected May 27.
Egyptian streets near the Interior Ministry were once again filled with tear gas, “non-lethal” shells and burned-out cars.
Angry over the military's abuse of women during recent protests in Tahrir Square, an estimated 10,000 women marched through the streets of Cairo on Dec. 20.
The streets of Tahrir Square are once again filled with tear gas canisters, so called “non-lethal” rubber bullets and Central Security Forces and military police.
The demonstrators who are on the streets are not satisfied with cosmetic change, they want real change, Becker tells RT. “Those people are going to keep fighting until they win justice.”
On Aug. 3,former dictator Hosni Mubarak was wheeled in on a stretcher into the defendants' cage as his trial started.