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Abstract . Ar#cle (1) CAIRO –(AFP)- Prime Minister EssamSharaf, wrote on his Facebook page that ”the blood of Egyptians is too precious for it to be spilled without a response”.”Our glorious revolution was made to restore dignity, Egyptians’ dignity at home and abroad, and what was acceptable in Egypt before the revolution is no longer acceptable after the revolution,” he wrote. ةلاقملا (2) Ar#cle (2) CAIRO (Reuters)- Hosni Mubarak, struggling to cling on as Egypt’spresident in the face of unprecedented protests over poverty, corruption and oppression, said on Thursday he would transfer powers to his vice president. In an address that failed to meet demands by protesters for him to step down immediately, Mubarak, 82, appeared to step aside byhanding over the reins of power to his deputy, Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief trusted by Washington. The armed forces, issuing what they labeled “Communique No.1”, announced they were moving to preserve the nation and the aspirations of the people. Protesters in Tahrir Square, waved their shoes in dismay at the speech, shouting: “Down, Down, Hosni Mubarak” enraged by the fact that the president had not stepped down. . Ar#cle (3) CAIRO (Agencies) - Protesters who spent their second night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday vowed to keep up their sit-in despite a series of concessions by the Egyptian prime minister. Hundreds who spent the night in the sweltering heat blocked traffic around the square on Sunday morning. ”We managed to convince many of the employees not to go to work,” said Ghada Shahbender, a human rights activist who has been protesting since the start of the January 25 uprising. Protesters have vowed to stay in the square until the demands of the revolutionare met, including an end to military trials of civilians, the dismissal and prosecution of police officers accused of murder and torture - before and after the revolution - andopen trials of former regime officials. After nearly two weeks of mounting tensionmarked by clashes with police, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Saturday pledged to meet the demands of the protesters with a series of measures. Sharaf said he ”issued direct orders to the interior minister to stop all police officers accused of killing protesters from working”, in an address broadcast on state television. He also ”ordered thecreation of apanel to review the trials [of (127) those accused of] killing protesters and of corruption as soon as possible”, without waiting until after the judicial summer recess. ”We are still asking for no military rule of the country, and no pressure from the military on the judiciary and the media,” saidhuman rights activist Dina Mohammed, 24.”The longer we stay [in the square], the more they respond”. ”Sharaf deals as if theproblems were a water leak and instead of closing the tap, he tries to collect the water with his hands,”said Magdy Mossaad. Mubarak, who is in custody in a hospital in the Red Sea resort ofSharm ElSheikh, is to face trial along with his two sons Alaa andGamal on August 3. Ar#cle (4) . |