"The military has been acting in ways reminiscent of Mubarak’s regime, detaining scores of people and putting protesters in military prisons, where some were reportedly tortured, or on swift trial before military courts."
Yup, SAME as the OLD BOSS!
"Mubarak, sons detained in Egypt; Face questions on holdings, crackdown" April 14, 2011|By Fredrick Kunkle and Sherine Bayoumi, Washington Post
In recent weeks, Egypt’s fledgling democracy movement has increased its demands that Mubarak and former members of his government be put on trial for allegedly looting the country and suppressing protests with violence that claimed more than 800 lives. Yesterday, protesters began to gather in Sharm el-Sheikh, state media reported.
Mubarak and his family have been accused of hiding huge amounts of ill-gotten wealth in foreign bank accounts.
Protesters are also becoming more critical of the military leadership that intervened during the most violent clashes of the uprising and later stepped in to govern after Mubarak stepped down. Some who accuse the military of stalling progress toward reform and protecting Mubarak said they were not sure what to make of the news that the president’s health had deteriorated.
Mubarak, 82, has been rumored to be in poor health before, and questions about his health have been a delicate subject in the past. But many Egyptians have become distrustful of the Supreme Military Council that has taken his place.
“He could be very sick, or the people around him could be helping him to evade questions,’’ said Wael Abbas, 36, an Egyptian blogger and activist.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian military, carrying rifles and electric batons, cleared hundreds of protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square without using the weapons and reopened the hub to traffic.
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"Egypt’s military rulers said yesterday that they were reviewing cases of young protesters jailed in the aftermath of the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and that they also sacked several provincial governors appointed by the former president.
The moves were intended to defuse tensions between the military, which took control of Egypt after Mubarak’s ouster, and the protesters determined to keep up the pressure and demand for sweeping reforms....
Activists complain the military has been acting in ways reminiscent of Mubarak’s regime, detaining scores of people and putting protesters in military prisons, where some were reportedly tortured, or on swift trial before military courts.
This week, a military tribunal slapped a three-year prison term on a blogger for charges of insulting the army and spreading false information, further antagonizing the protest movement.
So when are newspapers going to be charged?
Many Egyptians say the generals are heavy-handedly dictating the course of Egypt’s transition and that they are not doing enough to ensure that remnants of Mubarak’s regime don’t retain power and thwart hopes for real democracy.
The tensions came to a peak on Saturday, when troops stormed Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 18-day uprising, killing at least one protester and arresting dozens in a predawn operation.
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"A court ordered the dissolution of Egypt’s former ruling party yesterday, meeting a major demand of the protesters who wanted to ensure the party that monopolized the country’s politics and government for decades is definitively broken after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
The court verdict against the National Democratic Party appeared to signal that the Egypt’s ruling military was trying to move more swiftly to meet protester demands.
More of the same from the AmeriKan media, I see.
It came only days after the ousted Mubarak and his sons were put under detention for interrogation over allegations of corruption and responsibility for the killings of protesters by police.
Now we know that Mubarak is a distraction.
He's already out; doesn't hurt the military one bit to beat on him.
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"3 former officials charged in Egypt" April 18, 2011|Associated Press
CAIRO — Egypt’s former prime minister and two other former Cabinet members were charged with corruption yesterday in the latest step in a campaign to bring officials of Hosni Mubarak’s toppled regime to justice for years of corruption, rights abuses, and other crimes.
Egypt’s attorney general for public funds charged former prime minister Ahmed Nazif, former finance minister Yousef Boutros Ghali, and former interior minister Habib el-Adly with wasting more than $15 million in public money and with profiteering, the official news agency reported....
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"An Egyptian court yesterday ordered the name of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, removed from all public facilities and institutions, the latest step in dismantling the legacy of the former leader’s 29 years in power.
Early in his rule, Mubarak said that out of modesty he did not want his name put on public buildings, but there are now hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of schools, streets, squares, and libraries that bear the name of the former leader or his wife — as well as a major subway station in central Cairo.
Mubarak, who turns 83 next month, remains in detention under guard at a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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"Mubarak to move to military hospital" April 25, 2011|Associated Press
CAIRO — Egypt’s prosecutor general yesterday ordered former president Hosni Mubarak to be moved from his hospital in a Red Sea resort town to a military facility.
Mubarak was originally supposed to be moved to Cairo’s Tora prison hospital, but it was deemed not yet ready to receive him, said a spokesman for Prosecutor General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud.
Instead the former president will stay in a military hospital until the prison facility is ready, said spokesman Adel Said in a statement posted on the prosecutor’s Facebook page....
Thousands of Egyptians had demanded that Mubarak be placed in a prison compound, where his sons and many of his former ministers and officials are housed, instead of staying in a hospital.
Mubarak’s sons and the top officials of the former ruling party are being held in Cairo’s Tora prison while they are investigated on charges including corruption, squandering public funds, and ordering the violent suppression of antigovernment demonstrators.
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Also see: Egyptians Awake
Egypt's Evolving Revolution
No, I don't believe the Egyptians are fooled.
