The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be held at a police academy in Cairo with a maximum of 600 people allowed to attend.
Youth protesters vowed to remain in Tahrir Square until their demands are met, in escalating tension between demonstrators and the miltary council.
Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen.
Egyptians will vote on proposed constitutional changes on Saturday in the first election in decades in which they will not know the result in advance.
New evidence of spying and torture by an Egyptian security agency has piled pressure on military rulers to abolish a hated symbol of the Mubarak era.
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/ 26 February 2011
Soldiers used force on Saturday to break up a protest demanding more political reform in Egypt, demonstrators said.
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/ 13 February 2011
Egypt’s new military rulers said on Sunday they had dissolved Parliament and suspended the Constitution and would govern only for six months.
Egyptian soldiers shoved pro-democracy protesters aside to force a path for traffic to start flowing through central Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday.
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/ 12 February 2011
Egyptians woke to a new dawn on Saturday after 30 years of autocratic rule under Hosni Mubarak, full of hope after achieving unthinkable change.
Anti-government protesters said on Thursday they were more determined than ever to topple Egypt President Hosni Mubarak after Wednesday’s clashes.