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April 6th Movement
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Mr. Maher is detained
While driving to work, Mr. Maher, the April 6 Youth Movement co-founder, spots a speeding Peugeot in his rearview mirror, and a moment later a minibus pulls up in front of his car. State security officers pour out of the vehicle and detain him. For two days he is tortured at a nearby station. -
Failed Demonstration
Wearing matching shirts, they plan to hand out leaflets, chat about democracy with locals and fly a kite painted to look like the Egyptian flag. But the demonstration attracts almost no curious passers-by, is quashed by the police within minutes and leads to arrests and beatings for a handful of the participants. -
Kaled Said is Beat to Death
June 6, 2010: Khaled Mohamed Said, 28, is sitting in an Internet cafe in Alexandria when two local detectives enter and begin beating him, according to witnesses. After the owner tells them to take it outside, they kick Mr. Said and smash his head against an iron gate, witnesses report. He dies soon after. The police posthumously accuse him of dealing drugs. -
"We Are All Kaled Said"
In the days after Mr. Said’s death, Wael Ghonim starts a Facebook page called “We Are All Khaled Said”and inaugurates it with the following post: Today they killed Khaled. If I don't act for his sake, tomorrow they will kill me. Within two minutes the page had 300 members. Mr. Ghonim, writing under an alias, then posted this call to action: People, we became 300 in two minutes. We want to be 100,000. We must unite against our oppressor. -
Tunasian Inspiration
Mohamed Bouazizi's Sacrifice-The Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in front of the governor’s office building in protest of police abuse and humiliation. -
Tensions Rise
bombing of a church in Alexandria on Jan. 1 that killed 21 and injured nearly 100 more. In Egypt, many believed the attack was started by the government to incite anger between Muslims and Christians. -
Challenge
Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old member of the April 6 Youth Movement, posts an online video.she challenges her fellow countrymen — emphasis on men — to join the demonstrations on Jan. 25 -
Jan. 25 Demonstration
Demonstrators were gathered peacefully in central Cairo to demand an end to Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power and protest economic woes in the North African nation. The protests came days after Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced into exile by demonstrations in his home country. -
A New Plan
Turnout for Jan. 25 is beyond all expectations. Even before it’s over, activists are reconvening, especially online, to plot their next move. As they had for the Police Day “celebration,” they work furiously to advertise, this time a Jan. 28 demonstration dubbed “The Day of Rage.” -
Cutting off Communication
Mr. Mubarak tries to cut activists off from the world and each other. It backfires. Many Egyptians see blocking Internet and cellular communications as the final straw. Those who had been reluctant to step out into the streets now feel compelled to — there is no other way to communicate with each other. -
Ruler Resigns
President Mubarak resigns. February 2011 -
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Egypts Interim Leader Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Higher Military Council that took control of Egypt on Friday after President Hosni Mubarak was swept from power -
Mohamed Morsi
Mohammed MorisiMohamed Morsi is Egypt’s president. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s dominant Islamist group, he was narrowly elected in June 2012. He was the first Islamist elected to be head of an Arab state, and Egypt’s first freely elected leader. -
Gives himself Power
With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets over the slow pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree granting himself broad powers above any court, and used his new authority to order the retrial of Hosni Mubarak. The move raised fears that he had made himself into a new strongman like the one the revolution had deposed. -
RIOT
Egyptian riot police fired tear gas at tens of thousands of demonstrators who were converging on the presidential palace in Cairo to protest the country’s new draft constitution. -
President Fights back
Dec. 9 President Mohamed Morsi prepared to deploy the army to safeguard balloting in a planned referendum on a new constitution. His opponents, signalling that it had given up hope that it could defeat the charter at the polls, called for a boycott to undermine the vote. Thousands took to the streets for a fifth night of demonstrations.
