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Egypt’s Tahrir Square; Correcting the Path

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09-09-2011 | 09:03

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Hundreds of Egyptian activists gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to launch a day of demonstrations demanding a clear road map to democracy and an end to military trials for civilians.

People who spearheaded an uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February gave a "Correcting the Path" billing to the latest protests. The demonstrations could give a sign of popular sentiment towards the ruling military council since Mubarak went on trial last month. Islamists, including the political party set up by the Muslim Brotherhood -- Egypt's best organized political force after the dissolution of Mubarak's National Democratic Party -- distanced themselves from the planned protests.

Hundreds of people started filing into Tahrir Square on Friday morning, some holding anti-corruption banners, one of which read, "The people want to purify the state". Police and military personnel were nowhere to be seen in Tahrir Square or in the streets around it. The Interior Ministry said it had cleared police from the square for 24 hours starting from midnight to let Friday's protests proceed peacefully.

Thousands of Egyptians camped in Tahrir Square for weeks in July to push for faster political reforms and to speed up trials of Mubarak and his aides for killing demonstrators. Security forces moved in to end the protests and stationed policemen in the square, epicenter of the unrest that toppled Mubarak.

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