For this first work day of the post-Mubarak, shops have reopened Sunday, February 13 and many Egyptians are back at work after eighteen days that changed the course of modern history of Egypt. Thousands of people have however returned on Tahrir Square in Cairo, the epicenter of the revolt against Hosni Mubarak, demanding the army to keep its promises.
While military police tried to free the roundabout to allow traffic to resume, many demonstrators resisted, refusing to leave. Few brief scuffles were reported. "Revolution, revolution until victory," chanted the hundreds of people spent the night in the square, joined by a larger crowd in the morning.
"If the army does not meet our requirements, our uprising and its concrete manifestations start over again," warned Safwat Hegazi, one of the leaders of the protest. Protesters demanding the lifting of emergency rule and the dissolution of Parliament after November parliamentary elections, widely regarded as rigged in favor of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in power.
Echoing the slogan of the army, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik said that "the first priority is to restore security and facilitate the daily lives of the people." In this context, the head of the Supreme Council of the armed forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, has also talked Saturday with Minister of Interior, Mahmoud Wagdy, the possibility of a rapid redeployment of police forces.
Marshal Tantawi, also deputy prime minister and defense minister, also held talks with President of the Constitutional Court and the Minister of Justice on matters relating to the Constitution. Some police have expressed Sunday near the Interior Ministry to demand higher wages and lack of action against them.
During this march, shots were fired, according to a security guard, it is the police who fired shots into the air. Egyptian police accused of brutality and corruption, is despised by much of the population. Sunday protesting the police insisted that he had received orders from security services to suppress the protests with brutality.
They booed the former Minister of Interior Habib El-Adli, calling its performance "in the public square." "We are not traitors," they shouted, as "our brothers were in the demonstrations." 
While military police tried to free the roundabout to allow traffic to resume, many demonstrators resisted, refusing to leave. Few brief scuffles were reported. "Revolution, revolution until victory," chanted the hundreds of people spent the night in the square, joined by a larger crowd in the morning.
"If the army does not meet our requirements, our uprising and its concrete manifestations start over again," warned Safwat Hegazi, one of the leaders of the protest. Protesters demanding the lifting of emergency rule and the dissolution of Parliament after November parliamentary elections, widely regarded as rigged in favor of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in power.
Echoing the slogan of the army, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik said that "the first priority is to restore security and facilitate the daily lives of the people." In this context, the head of the Supreme Council of the armed forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, has also talked Saturday with Minister of Interior, Mahmoud Wagdy, the possibility of a rapid redeployment of police forces.
Marshal Tantawi, also deputy prime minister and defense minister, also held talks with President of the Constitutional Court and the Minister of Justice on matters relating to the Constitution. Some police have expressed Sunday near the Interior Ministry to demand higher wages and lack of action against them.
During this march, shots were fired, according to a security guard, it is the police who fired shots into the air. Egyptian police accused of brutality and corruption, is despised by much of the population. Sunday protesting the police insisted that he had received orders from security services to suppress the protests with brutality.
They booed the former Minister of Interior Habib El-Adli, calling its performance "in the public square." "We are not traitors," they shouted, as "our brothers were in the demonstrations."
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