Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Police join protests in Cairo

The Egyptians returned on Monday at Tahrir Square in Cairo, paralyzing traffic a few hours after the military police and soldiers dispersed the recent pro-democracy activists in the area. The Army seemed to have control of the square, the epicenter of the protests that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.

But then, hundreds of police marched into the place without being harassed by the soldiers, saying they wanted to show solidarity with the revolution. The police were planted in the plaza to demand better working conditions and ask for a raise. Moreover, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces adopted the call in two months of a referendum for the Egyptian people approved the amendments to the Constitution of 1971, the eve frozen after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak.

As if this were not enough, former President Hosni Mubarak is in poor health and depression, according to unconfirmed reports. It was not immediately possible to confirm any of the versions but remember that Mubarak had surgery in Germany last year to remove your gallbladder. One reason could be that Egypt sought to Britain, France and the United States to freeze assets of some former government officials.

Hundreds of Iraqis took to the streets of downtown Baghdad to complain about corruption and lack of public services that affect the country for years. Iraqis have been complaining about the lack of jobs and basic services like electricity in small-scale protests throughout the country. The demonstrations have not been as great as those that have toppled leaders in Tunisia or Egypt, but ashamed to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and highlight the serious challenges facing the fragile government.

The state of emergency that has lasted 19 years in Algeria finalized in the coming days, said the Algerian foreign minister, Murad Medelci. The measure has been in force since 1992 and the Government has been under pressure in recent days to repeal emergency laws after the riots in Egypt and Tunisia.

"In the next few days, talk about it as something of the past," said Medelci the French radio station Europe 1 in an interview. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dissolved his cabinet in what seemed a gesture inspired by the turmoil sweeping the Arab world. West Bank Palestinian Authority tries to show which services to implement reforms called for mass protests after they have toppled the autocratic rulers of Tunisia and Egypt.

Fayyad has six weeks to appoint a new cabinet. The Hamas movement said today "illegal" the integration of a new Palestinian government and said that only a strategy to divert attention Abbas on Palestinian documents filtered. Over a thousand people protested in Yemen for the fourth consecutive day to demand political reforms and the resignation of the president.

Academics, activists and lawmakers marched in the capital Sanaa. A demonstration by dozens of government supporters, who held photos of President Ali Abdullah Saleh faced the protesters shouted slogans against terrorism and in favor of dialogue proposed by the Government.

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