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/ 20 November 2011
Clashes erupted between protesters and police in Cairo and two other Egyptian cities, killing two people and wounding hundreds.
Over 50 000 Egyptian protesters have flocked to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to pressure the military government to transfer power to elected civilian rule.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak arrived in a hospital bed in a Cairo court on Monday to face charges over the killing of protesters.
Lawyers want Egypt’s government to hand over documents that may reveal who ordered police to fire on protesters during the violent uprising.
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak will be moved to a military hospital until he is well enough to face interrogation.
Egypt will hold a parliamentary election in September, its military rulers said on Monday.
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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.
Egyptian protesters enraged at President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday.