CAIRO — Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here. The protesters, mobilized largely on the Internet and energized by recent events in Tunisia, occupied one of the city’s most famous squares for hours, beating back attempts to dislodge them by police officers wielding tear gas and water cannons.
“Freedom, freedom, freedom,” they chanted. “Where are the Egyptian people?” ... “Our government is unjust,” Mr. Ashraf said. “I’m not happy. The state is very aggressive with people.” At least six young Egyptians have set themselves on fire in recent weeks, in an imitation of the self-immolation that set off the Tunisian unrest. Egypt has forbidden gas stations to sell to people not in cars and placed security agents wielding fire extinguishers outside government offices.
More than 90,000 people signed up on a Facebook page for the Tuesday protests, framed by the organizers as a stand against torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment. ... She had been to one protest before, after the police were accused of fatally beating a young man in Alexandria named Khaled Said to death last year. “I came to change the government,” she said. “I came to change the entire regime.” ....
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2010 was a much sad, wrenching year for me.
Funny is that, in the second half of 2010,
some sparkling thoughts managed to pass thru my head
even though I am still not quite back to myself.
Hello, 2011; a peaceful mind is all I wish for, since forever.
〔自由時報 2011 Jan 1 記者林慶川/台北報導〕台北市貓空纜車工程遭告發涉弊一案,台北地檢署歷時二年餘追查後,認定並無官商勾結情事,也未有公務員涉及刑事不法,昨天以「簽結」方式結案。台北地檢署襄閱主任檢察官王文德表示,本案是否另涉行政責任及工程瑕疵問題,或北市府與廠商間,有無存在民事問題,並不在本案的刑事調查範圍之內。