Al Jazeera English
| May 8, 2013
Egypt's highest court has cleared 24 former regime officials over the "camel battle" during the 2011 uprising, when protesters in Cairo were attacked by Hosni Mubarak loyalists riding horses and camels. Families of those who died in the attack and...
Mosaic
| Apr 18, 2013
As Egypt's government continues to pursue a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, Egyptian people's concerns about the elimination of subsidies on bread and fuel continue to rise. Professor Nezar Al Sayyad, Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 13, 2013
The retrial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been postponed, possibly for months. The 84-year-old turned up at court, only for the presiding judge to refuse to hear the case. Mubarak faces charges over the deaths of more than 800 peo...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 11, 2013
New revelations have emerged in Egypt that members of the Army participated in the forced disappearance, torture and killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Despite the allegations, Preside...
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Mosaic
| Apr 9, 2013
Egyptians are protesting the government's plans to implement a new subsidy system that will subsidize bread rather than the flour used to make it. Many bakers worry they won't be paid enough, while Egypt's poor fear the subsidized bread, which for...
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Mosaic
| Mar 26, 2013
Many Egyptians are uniting against President Mohamed Morsi's economic policies as his government pursues a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF. In order to qualify for the loan, the IMF has imposed strict rules, including an end to subsidies for many e...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 14, 2013
Egyptian police, using snipers on rooftops to shoot into huge crowds in Tahrir Square, were behind almost all of the 846 protestor deaths during the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule, according to a top-level probe likely to play a key...
Associated Press
| Mar 3, 2013
At least two people were killed and 400 injured when the Egyptian military intervened in clashes between protesters and police in Port Said. It's yet another sign of the increasing violence that continues to rock the nation two years after the up...
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Mosaic
| Feb 8, 2013
The 2011 Egyptian uprising was notable not just for toppling a dictator, but also for the way protesters used the internet and social media to communicate their messages of change. On the second anniversary of the historic events that changed Egyp...
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Mosaic
| Feb 1, 2013
A protester is apparently stripped and beaten by Egyptian security forces during today's clashes near the presidential palace in Cairo. The opposition alleges that, two years after the downfall of Mubarak, security forces continue to use tactics o...
— Oct 30, 2011 at 05:49 pm
...corruption charges. An 18-day uprising forced Mubarak to step down Feb. 11. CAIRO -- The trial of Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak on cha...
— Feb 25, 2012 at 11:00 am
— May 4, 2012 at 06:07 pm
...the cycle of violence is tragically predictable, how the clashes will affect Egypt's upcoming presidential election is not. Cartoonist Carlos La...
— Jun 19, 2012 at 03:27 pm
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak is a former Egyptian politician, leader and military commander. He served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
Mubarak was appointed Vice President of Egypt in 1975, and assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. His almost thirty-year presidency made him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rising to the rank of air chief marshal.
Mubarak was ousted after 18 days of demonstrations during the 2011 Egyptian revolution when, on 11 February 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as president and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. On 13 April, a prosecutor ordered Mubarak and both his sons to be detained for 15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of power. He was then ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence for not giving orders to stop the killing of peaceful protestors during the revolution. These trials officially began on 3 August 2011. Egypt’s military prosecutors then also proclaimed that they were investigating Mubarak's role in the assassination of his predecessor Anwar Sadat.
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