dissolved on Tuesday and internal security agency whose reputation for brutality espionage helped ignite the revolution that ousted last month. The dissolution of state security is another achievement for the Egyptian protest movement that forced Mubarak to leave the position he had held for three decades, in a show of strength of the people that continues to reverberate throughout the region.
Equivalent to the Stasi in Egypt, state security was a hated symbol of the Mubarak government and was used by the Executive to crush political opposition. Reformists fear that their survival was a risk to their hopes of establishing a responsible government. The Ministry of the Interior replaced the state security with a new National Security Force, which would serve "the nation without interfering in the lives of citizens in their right to express their political rights," the state news agency.
This month had increased the pressure to take action after the protesters entered the offices of state security and found numerous documents destroyed evidence of torture and reports showing the true extent of domestic spying agency. Its director was arrested and is facing an investigation by ordering the deaths of protesters during the uprising against Mubarak.
Another 47 staff members have been arrested on suspicion of destruction of documents. And reformist opposition groups said the state security agents are accountable for Egypt to move on. A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned group by Mubarak, described the dissolution of state security as "a step in the right direction." 
Equivalent to the Stasi in Egypt, state security was a hated symbol of the Mubarak government and was used by the Executive to crush political opposition. Reformists fear that their survival was a risk to their hopes of establishing a responsible government. The Ministry of the Interior replaced the state security with a new National Security Force, which would serve "the nation without interfering in the lives of citizens in their right to express their political rights," the state news agency.
This month had increased the pressure to take action after the protesters entered the offices of state security and found numerous documents destroyed evidence of torture and reports showing the true extent of domestic spying agency. Its director was arrested and is facing an investigation by ordering the deaths of protesters during the uprising against Mubarak.
Another 47 staff members have been arrested on suspicion of destruction of documents. And reformist opposition groups said the state security agents are accountable for Egypt to move on. A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned group by Mubarak, described the dissolution of state security as "a step in the right direction."
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