The dictator has, therefore, the Internet connection in Cairo and other parts can break. Twitter and Facebook, but also SMS and mail services are blocked. Several Muslim brothers were arrested. Hosni Mubarak tried drastic measures to stop the resistance in the population against him, Egypt's president has had prior to the announced mass protests after Friday prayers in many parts of the country cut the internet connections.
The main server of the provider in Egypt were not for CNN-data available in the morning. Text messages are no longer with Blackberry mobile phones can be sent. Web sites like Twitter, Facebook and e-mail service from Google are completely blocked.
The server for Web sites of the Egyptian government and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo are paralyzed obvious. A spokesman for Mubarak asserted, however, Facebook and Twitter have not been decommissioned. Egypt's Interior Ministry, however, had "decisive action" against the mass demonstrations announced and are organized primarily over the Internet.
The Egyptian telecommunications companies are said to have decided in a secret session, hats in the event of an escalation of the protests after Friday prayers all communication channels. At the end of the meeting for information of the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk was decided that the Internet provider TEDATA and the mobile phone companies Mobinil, Vodafone and Etisalat Friday with a representative to send to the state-owned telecommunications company in order to coordinate further steps.
At night, the Egyptian police arrested, according to a lawyer be at least 20 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Among them will be five former MPs. A representative of the security authorities said the authorities had ordered a raid. The organization had previously banned the first time declared to participate in the protests after Friday prayers, which will be the largest since Mubarak took office in 1981.
The Muslim Brotherhood demands include the dissolution of Parliament, constitutional changes and the release of demonstrators. Police will shoot if necessary, the security forces are forbidden for the Friday noon prayers in most mosques in the center of Cairo, and in larger mosques in the country have to prevent gatherings of demonstrators, reports the website Akher al-Akhbar.
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the police of being acted in "entirely unacceptable and disproportionate" manner against mostly peaceful demonstrators. There have been numerous cases reported where security forces embarked on unarmed demonstrators and used tear gas without warning had.
According to HRW in the protests in the past three days, nine people were killed. The police want to stop the mass demonstration if necessary with brute force. "The police have given clear instructions to prevent any demonstration, and if necessary to shoot directly to potential protestors" from Egyptian security sources said.
On the large squares of Cairo in the morning armored troop carrier drove to the police. In the side streets were numerous police cars. Obama urges Mubarak to reform Also on Thursday was to come back to protests in Egypt. demonstrated in Cairo in the late evening on a main street in more than 1,000 people.
At the same time Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei met on Thursday evening in the capital. The former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who wants to be at the forefront of the protest movement, offered himself as head of a transitional government. Egypt stand at a crossroads, "said the 68-year-old.
On his arrival in Cairo, ElBaradei said initially not closer to his plans. "It is a process," he said simply. With regard to the governance of the diplomat said: "A hand is stretched out, but the leadership has to understand that change is absolutely necessary." There was no way back. Even Barack Obama Mubarak is now under pressure.
He was convinced that political and economic reforms "absolutely crucial" for Egypt's future have, the U.S. president said in a "YouTube" interview. He had repeatedly urged Mubarak to reform. At the same time Obama pointed out that Mubarak had been a close ally "in a lot of important issues" and a partner in the Arab-Israeli peace process.
"President Mubarak is very helpful in a number of difficult issues in the Middle East have been." The protests show after Obama's words "pent-up frustration" about the situation of Egyptian society. It is essential that people are free in every country "to bring to their legitimate complaints about the expression".
Mubarak himself has not since the protests began on Tuesday on public display. On Saturday he will open the Cairo International Book Fair. The U.S. president called on the Egyptian government and protesters to exercise restraint. "Violence is not the answer to solve the problems in Egypt," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered her Egyptian colleague Ahmed Abu al-Gheit in an interview that U.S. support for reform. Even Clinton had made clear here that were given the tense situation, restraint and dialogue is needed, said her spokesman Philip Crowley.
The main server of the provider in Egypt were not for CNN-data available in the morning. Text messages are no longer with Blackberry mobile phones can be sent. Web sites like Twitter, Facebook and e-mail service from Google are completely blocked.
The server for Web sites of the Egyptian government and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo are paralyzed obvious. A spokesman for Mubarak asserted, however, Facebook and Twitter have not been decommissioned. Egypt's Interior Ministry, however, had "decisive action" against the mass demonstrations announced and are organized primarily over the Internet.
The Egyptian telecommunications companies are said to have decided in a secret session, hats in the event of an escalation of the protests after Friday prayers all communication channels. At the end of the meeting for information of the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk was decided that the Internet provider TEDATA and the mobile phone companies Mobinil, Vodafone and Etisalat Friday with a representative to send to the state-owned telecommunications company in order to coordinate further steps.
At night, the Egyptian police arrested, according to a lawyer be at least 20 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Among them will be five former MPs. A representative of the security authorities said the authorities had ordered a raid. The organization had previously banned the first time declared to participate in the protests after Friday prayers, which will be the largest since Mubarak took office in 1981.
The Muslim Brotherhood demands include the dissolution of Parliament, constitutional changes and the release of demonstrators. Police will shoot if necessary, the security forces are forbidden for the Friday noon prayers in most mosques in the center of Cairo, and in larger mosques in the country have to prevent gatherings of demonstrators, reports the website Akher al-Akhbar.
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the police of being acted in "entirely unacceptable and disproportionate" manner against mostly peaceful demonstrators. There have been numerous cases reported where security forces embarked on unarmed demonstrators and used tear gas without warning had.
According to HRW in the protests in the past three days, nine people were killed. The police want to stop the mass demonstration if necessary with brute force. "The police have given clear instructions to prevent any demonstration, and if necessary to shoot directly to potential protestors" from Egyptian security sources said.
On the large squares of Cairo in the morning armored troop carrier drove to the police. In the side streets were numerous police cars. Obama urges Mubarak to reform Also on Thursday was to come back to protests in Egypt. demonstrated in Cairo in the late evening on a main street in more than 1,000 people.
At the same time Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei met on Thursday evening in the capital. The former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who wants to be at the forefront of the protest movement, offered himself as head of a transitional government. Egypt stand at a crossroads, "said the 68-year-old.
On his arrival in Cairo, ElBaradei said initially not closer to his plans. "It is a process," he said simply. With regard to the governance of the diplomat said: "A hand is stretched out, but the leadership has to understand that change is absolutely necessary." There was no way back. Even Barack Obama Mubarak is now under pressure.
He was convinced that political and economic reforms "absolutely crucial" for Egypt's future have, the U.S. president said in a "YouTube" interview. He had repeatedly urged Mubarak to reform. At the same time Obama pointed out that Mubarak had been a close ally "in a lot of important issues" and a partner in the Arab-Israeli peace process.
"President Mubarak is very helpful in a number of difficult issues in the Middle East have been." The protests show after Obama's words "pent-up frustration" about the situation of Egyptian society. It is essential that people are free in every country "to bring to their legitimate complaints about the expression".
Mubarak himself has not since the protests began on Tuesday on public display. On Saturday he will open the Cairo International Book Fair. The U.S. president called on the Egyptian government and protesters to exercise restraint. "Violence is not the answer to solve the problems in Egypt," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered her Egyptian colleague Ahmed Abu al-Gheit in an interview that U.S. support for reform. Even Clinton had made clear here that were given the tense situation, restraint and dialogue is needed, said her spokesman Philip Crowley.
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