| 5,559,746 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
The Egypt pro-reform movement Kefaya organized simultaneous rallies across the country in protest at President Hosni Mubarak's unchallenged 24-year-old rule. They coordinated 14 marches at the same time under the banner "no constitution without freedom." Some 75 protestors around the country were arrested but later released.Among the towns affected by the demonstrations: Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, Sinai town of El-Arish , Minya, Mansoura. In some cases clashes occured between civilians and police forces, some civilians being arrested. |
| 5,559,750 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
A suicide bomber wounded several foreigners outside one of Cairo's most popular tourist attractions.A second attack with a bomb took placxe one hour after, conducted by the sister and fiancee of the first suicide bomber.The attacks were claimed in Internet statements by a group calling itself the Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam and another one called the Egyptian Mujahedeen Group. 200 arrests were done afterwards in relation to these attacks. |
| 5,559,755 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Thousands of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamic group, protested across the country in an escalation of the opposition campaign demanding political reform. Police arrested hundreds of protesters. The protests took place in Cairo, several cities in the Delta and in Fayoum, south of Cairo.Security sources said police had detained about 80 protesters in El-Mansura and 100 in Zagazig, both in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, and 30 in El-Faiyum, to the southwest. Brotherhood officials reported many other detentions elsewhere. About 220 protesters were arrested during demonstrations in the Delta provinces of Sharqiya and Daqahliya and in Fayoum. |
| 5,559,759 |
31.03637 |
31.38069 |
Egypt |
|
Anti-government protests.A representative of the Brotherhood complained that police used rubber bullets against demonstrators in the city of Mansoura and that two of the 12 in the hospital suffered wounds in the shoulder and chest. |
| 5,559,764 |
31.0531 |
31.3739 |
Egypt |
|
Protests against the government.The police uses tear gas.One protestor dies of a heart attack. |
| 5,559,768 |
30.05 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian police detained four leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and rounded up dozens of other members in the Islamic group as demonstrators gathered in several cities to protest arrests earlier in the week. |
| 5,559,773 |
30.55258 |
31.00904 |
Egypt |
|
Protestors demanded more freedom and the release of detainees. Next day arrests followed. |
| 5,559,778 |
27.18096 |
31.18368 |
Egypt |
|
Members of the Brotherhood protested against the government. Arrests followed although there was no violent clash with the security forces. |
| 5,559,782 |
27.18096 |
31.18368 |
Egypt |
|
33 Brotherhood members were detained in the city of Assiut, according to the Brotherhood. Security officials said several dozen were arrested, but would not give the exact number. The arrests sparked a protest by around 1,000 Brotherhood supporters in Assiut, but the demonstration ended without incident. |
| 5,561,811 |
31.1917 |
29.9118 |
Egypt |
|
Protesters gather demanding an end to the Mubarak regime. |
