CNN- Thousands Protest In Egypt. January 15, 2011.
In January, people across Egypt went to the streets in demonstrations against corruption and failing econmic policies. These protests rallies were partly inspired by similar protests that happened in Tunisia in Janurary also. There were thousands of people protesting in the capital of Cairo, an alliance of lawyers helped organize these events. The police in Cairo were calm at first but later the police fired close to a dozen rounds of tear gas on the people protesting, whitnesses said the crowd threw the canisters back at the police. There was about 200 protesters in the southern city of Aswan, 3,000 protesters in the northern city of Mahallah, and 2,000 protesters in the eastern city of Ismailiya. The people that organized this said they hope to capture the regional momentum for political change set by the Tunisians who earlier in the month forced the collapse of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's twenty-threee year rule. These protesters on January 15 did not get permits by the Egyptian government for the planned protest. Early Tuesday morning on January 15, more than 90,000 peopl throughout Egypt pledges to participate in the event in a Facebook group called "We Are All Khaled Said," named after an Alexandria activist who was beaten to death by police. The Facebook group demands raising the minimum wage, sacking the interior minister, creating two term presidential term limits and scrapping existing emergency laws that the group says "resulted in police control" over the people and nation. Some other human rights groups, such as the Arabic Network for Human Rights, have drawn a comparison between Egypt and Tunisia under Ben Ali, in terms of the level of government corruption and police brutality. Protesters want Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak out.
In January, people across Egypt went to the streets in demonstrations against corruption and failing econmic policies. These protests rallies were partly inspired by similar protests that happened in Tunisia in Janurary also. There were thousands of people protesting in the capital of Cairo, an alliance of lawyers helped organize these events. The police in Cairo were calm at first but later the police fired close to a dozen rounds of tear gas on the people protesting, whitnesses said the crowd threw the canisters back at the police. There was about 200 protesters in the southern city of Aswan, 3,000 protesters in the northern city of Mahallah, and 2,000 protesters in the eastern city of Ismailiya. The people that organized this said they hope to capture the regional momentum for political change set by the Tunisians who earlier in the month forced the collapse of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's twenty-threee year rule. These protesters on January 15 did not get permits by the Egyptian government for the planned protest. Early Tuesday morning on January 15, more than 90,000 peopl throughout Egypt pledges to participate in the event in a Facebook group called "We Are All Khaled Said," named after an Alexandria activist who was beaten to death by police. The Facebook group demands raising the minimum wage, sacking the interior minister, creating two term presidential term limits and scrapping existing emergency laws that the group says "resulted in police control" over the people and nation. Some other human rights groups, such as the Arabic Network for Human Rights, have drawn a comparison between Egypt and Tunisia under Ben Ali, in terms of the level of government corruption and police brutality. Protesters want Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak out.
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