Tens of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate the fall of Mubarak and pressure the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to deliver on pledges of reform.
Street clashes between protesters and security forces left several dead in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, with violence also reported in Kuwait and Jordan.
Amnesty International released a report asserting new evidence that the the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt has been torturing protester-detainees.
Protesters were attacked by ruling-party goons in Sana’a as the US pledged to double military aid to Yemen this year to raise the pressure on the local al-Qaeda affiliate.
Security forces in Bahrain fired tear gas and bird shot on mourners gathered for a funeral procession for a man killed in the first Egypt-inspired protests to reach the Gulf.
The fact that Egyptian protesters drew inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor and international nonviolence guru Gene Sharp is fueling further conspiranoid speculation about an astroturf revolution.
Thousands of Egyptians still occupy Tahrir Square—but the military has been slowly pushing them into one corner of the square, while pledging to oversee a democratic transition.
Several thousand young Yemenis gathered in central Sana’a, calling for President Ali Abdallah Saleh to step down and follow the example of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed over power to the army, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced in a surprise televised address.
Thousands of Egyptian protesters are facing down army troops and tanks at the parliament building and other government offices after Mubarak failed to accede to demands that he step down.
Unprecedented numbers of protesters filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Mubarak’s ouster, even as the regime and world media colluded to present a return to “normality.”
Egyptian security forces in Rafah, the Sinai peninsula town bordering the Gaza Strip, came under attack by gunmen believed to be from the radical Islamist group Takfir Wal-Hijra.
