It has been out of the lime light some weeks now, Egypt , so in going back to see what is happening in this important Middle East country we see that not much has changed.
The marches, another one is being organized , this one hoping for 1 million demonstrators.
Why one asks?
Mubarak is gone from power, he and his sons in custody being investigated for graft, stealing other crimes so why the demonstrations , against what?
Find out the military. To slow to remove old officials, to slow to turn control over to civiliens, to much ruling by decree as in the past..
There are changes. In the old days, the secret police, security forces would arrest you and take you to their prisons and beat you.
Today, the military arrests you and takes you to THEIR prisons and beat you.
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Middle East
Egyptian bloggers rally against military
Hundreds risk potential prosecution to voice criticisms of post-revolution military rule and slow pace of reforms.
Evan Hill Last Modified: 23 May 2011 19:34
Kareem Amer was the first blogger to face trial in Egypt; such prosecutions have continued under the army [Evan Hill]
"Hundreds of Egyptians have staged an unprecedented show of online defiance against their country's military leadership, taking to their blogs to write at times scathing critiques of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that assumed power after longtime president Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February.
The show of anger on Monday came ahead of a "million-man" protest that activists have called for Friday, one they hope will be the largest since the revolution and will demonstrate widespread public support for their call to put former government officials on trial and restrain the power of the armed forces.
Criticising the military in any form is a dangerous act in Egypt and is sometimes considered a crime. Maikel Nabil, a pacifist who blogged against the army, was tried and sentenced to three years in prison by a military court in April. It was the first trial of a blogger since the revolution.
But on Monday, the military appeared to strike a different tone.
"This is freedom of expression, and we have no problem with it," a spokesman told Al Jazeera.
The bloggers - the vast majority of whom published in Arabic, but a few in English - said they believed their sheer numbers, and their tone, would help spare them from arrest. By Monday afternoon, at least 203 blogs criticising the Council had been published, according to one widely cited count on Facebook.
"I'm 10 per cent worried, but I specifically write in very sarcastic ways, and I never directly insult," said Amr Bassiouny, a research manager at a real estate investment and development firm. "So no matter what I say, all they can do is take me in for making fun of them."
Mohamed Abdelfattah, a freelance journalist, said the point of the day was to blog collectively and mitigate the risk of being singled out.
"The military council cannot silence hundreds of bloggers who are adamant at showing its violations and mistakes," he said. "We said we will all blog on May 23rd, and they can arrest us all if they want."
