Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011
Gulf News
Cairo: Egyptian protesters, pushing for massive changes in the country, have baulked at a plan unveiled by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to meet their demands.
The government has lost its revolutionary legitimacy and should resign, Khalid Telima, a member of the revolutions coalition, said shortly after the Prime Minister promised to reshuffle his Cabinet within a week. Sharaf said in a televised address on Monday that the nations governors would also be reshuffled by the end of July and vowed to hold public as well as swift trials for officials from former president Hosni Mubaraks regime who were involved in a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
We will continue our [open-ended] strike in Al Tahrir Square, Telima told the private TV Al Tahrir. Hundreds of Egyptians are camping out in the central Cairos square and in other cities to protest at what they say the slow pace of prosecuting Mubarak and tainted former officials. Protesters demand that key state institutions, mainly the Interior Ministry and the media outlets, be purged of Mubarak loyalists. We plan several marches to demand the governments resignation, said Telima.
Sharaf said he had ordered the Interior Minister to sack policemen involved in shooting civilians during the uprising.
Pressing for demands
Egyptian women look at a placard held by a protester as a sit-in takes place at Tahrir square in Cairo on Monday. A banner on the left reads in Arabic ?To the martyrs: We wont leave until we obtain your due.
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
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