Cairo: Rocks, teargas, firebombs and gunfire made darkened streets in central Cairo a battle zone on Wednesday as hard-core protesters demanding an immediate end to army rule fought riot police around government buildings close to Tahrir Square. After six days of violence that has killed more than 30 and four days before voting for parliament begins, there was no sign of an end to the confrontation between Egypt's military rulers...
05:34 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's Health Ministry says 20 people have been killed since Sunday in clashes between police and protesters demanding the country's military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. The ministry on Monday also said that some 1,750 people have been wounded in the clashes since they began on Saturday. The ministry did not specify whether the dead and wounded were protesters, or whether the figures included policemen and...
02:54 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault on Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least 11 protesters were killed and hundreds were injured. It was the second day of clashes marking a sharp escalation of tensions on Egypt's streets a...
08:57 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Cairo: The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the killing of pro-democracy protesters has been postponed till the end of December over demands that the judges presiding over the case be replaced. The Cairo criminal court, headed by Counsellor Ahmad Refat, decided to postpone till December 28, the case in which Mubarak is accused along with his two sons Ala and Gamal, businessman Hussein Salem, former interior minister...
06:13 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Cairo: The trial of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, which was due to resume on Sunday, will be postponed until a decision is made on whether to change the panel presiding over the case, said lawyers on Saturday. Some of the lawyers representing families of those killed in an uprising against Mubarak's rule have demanded changes to the panel after complaining it had failed to give them adequate time to...
05:29 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Cairo: Thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to press the ruling army to speed up the transfer of power to civilian rule, and an Islamist leader said his followers would stage a sit-in if the army does not respond. Egypt's army assumed control after an uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, promising to transfer power to an elected civilian government within six months. But...
02:58 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's military rulers blamed Christian protesters and "enemies of the revolution" on Wednesday for triggering the clashes that left 26 dead, almost all of them Christians. The accusation was sure to enflame the fury within and beyond the Christian community over the worst violence since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. At a lengthy news conference to present their version of the events, generals from the Supreme Council of Armed Forces showed...
03:29 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Cairo: One of the most secretive figures of Hosni Mubarak's inner circle testified on Tuesday at the ousted leader's trial under a complete media blackout, facing questions over whether his former boss ordered the use of lethal force against protesters. Omar Suleiman, who was Mubarak's longtime intelligence chief and was named vice president during the last weeks of his rule, is the first in a string of members of the...
02:44 AM, Sep 14, 2011
Cairo: The first witnesses are likely to testify on Monday in the trial against ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with involvement in the killing of the protesters, when he will appear before a court in Cairo for the third time. Mubarak will appear along with his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former interior minister Habib El-Adly and six senior officials. In the broadcasted images of earlier two appearances, the...
08:38 AM, Sep 05, 2011
Cairo: An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial on Wednesday. The spectacle, aired live on state television, was a stunning moment for Egyptians. Many savored the humiliation of the man who...
07:33 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Cairo: An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak lay on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom on Wednesday as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb 10, the day before his fall...
01:31 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's prosecutor general on Sunday formally summoned Hosni Mubarak to appear at his trial, giving the clearest indication that the ousted president will be brought to the Cairo courtroom this week despite questions about his health. If he does appear at Wednesday's opening session in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, Mubarak will face an audience of 600 people, including relatives of some of the 850 protesters...
08:52 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's army called on protesters to avoid harming the nation on a fifth day of demonstrations that have increasingly targeted generals running the country. In a televised statement, the army warned against protests that "deviated from peaceful means". It repeated its vow to hand power to civilians and pledged support for the prime minister. The protest that began on Friday is one of the longest running demonstrations since Hosni...
02:38 AM, Jul 13, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's prime minister says he will reshuffle his Cabinet within a week, but doesn't say which ministers he'll replace. Monday's announcement by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf comes amid rising public anger over the slow pace of reform since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February. Sharaf also called for swift trials of members of the security forces suspected in the killings of nearly 900 Egyptians during the anti-Mubarak uprising....
02:51 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Cairo: Tens of thousands of Egyptians braved scorching summer heat to hold one of their biggest protests in months on Friday, filling streets in Cairo and other cities to demand trials for members of Hosni Mubarak's regime and express frustration with the slow pace of change. The exhilaration of Mubarak's ouster on February 11 after 18 days of mass protests has yielded to widespread frustration that "the revolution" has stalled....
02:38 AM, Jul 09, 2011
Cairo: Two days of street battles between security forces and protesters in Cairo show just how volatile Egypt remains nearly five months after the popular uprising that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak. More than 1,000 people were hurt in the unrest on Tuesday and Wednesday, driven by discontent over the slow pace of justice for old regime figures accused of corruption and killing protesters. The clashes in Tahrir Square -...
02:00 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas on around 3,000 protesters, including family members of those who were killed in the popular uprising early this year, leaving several injured. A thick cloud of tear gas engulfed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the massive protests that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak, as agitators were last evening seen running and covering their faces to protect themselves from lachrymatory agent's irritation. At...
08:54 AM, Jun 29, 2011
Cairo: Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets on Monday and stood in silence in memory of activist Khaled Said, beaten to death outside an Internet cafe exactly a year ago by two police officers in the coastal city Alexandria. Pictures of the 28-year-old's battered face and body quickly spread via the Internet, sparking public anger in Egyptian cities that grew into the revolt that eventually toppled President Hosni Mubarak...
02:23 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's former Finance Minister Yussef Boutros Ghali was on Saturday sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison on charges of corruption and embezzlement of public money. Ghali was awarded 15 years for squandering public money by using cars held in customs and 15 years for abusing his position to benefit from ministry funds by Judge Magdi Ghoneim of the Cairo criminal court, Al Arabiya reported. Ghali is among...
08:01 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Cairo: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, overthrown by a popular uprising this year, was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in August for the killing of protesters on charges that could carry the death penalty. Mubarak, ousted on February 11 after mass protests demanding an end to his 30 years in power, has been questioned about his role in a crackdown in which more than 840 demonstrators died, as well...
07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011
