Hundreds of thousands of angry protestors have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, unhappy that the revolution's goals are not being achieved. Egyptian activists have been calling for a million people to gather there.
The protestors say that even though high-ranking officials of the Mubarak regime, including the president himself, are to stand trial, its legacy is still very much alive.
“We got rid of Mubarak, but Mubarak’s dictatorship is still alive and well,” says Hossam al-Hamalawy, an influential social networker with a Twitter army of some 30,000 followers.
The taste of freedom won at Tahrir Square was short-lived. The military is in full power, mass media are being choked and oppression is still rampant.
“It’s worse than before I think. They weren’t catching activists as much as they are doing now and taking them to prison. I guess now they are being really violent. They want to kill the revolution. They stole it in the first place,” says activist Nawara Mourad.
Activists have a number of demands for the current government, which, they feel, is not running Egypt in the right direction.
“The military trials of civilians have to stop immediately. This is one of the major demands we’re putting forward,” al-Hamalawy says.
Others include transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials.
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