INDIA: Students in New Delhi protest Egyptian President Mubarak��������s regime

Record ID: 1377044

  • Title: INDIA: Students in New Delhi protest Egyptian President Mubarak��������s regime
  • Date: 1st February 2011
  • Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (FEBRUARY 01, 2011) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) STUDENTS MARCHING TOWARDS THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS, RUNNING POLICEMAN TRYING TO STOP THE PROTESTERS POLICEMEN RUNNING AFTER THE PROTESTERS PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS PLACARD READING: "DOWN WITH US IMPERIALISM" PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS, SHOUTING SLOGANS PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS FEMALE PROTESTER SHOUTING SLOGANS POLICEMEN STANDING POLICEMEN TRYING TO CALM DOWN THE PROTESTERS PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY GATE MAN LOOKING INSIDE THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS PROTESTER ADDRESSING OTHER PROTESTOR (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) STUDENT LEADER, SAYING "Hosni Mubarak,who has been ruling since 30 years, should leave his post now." PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS AND SHOUTING SLOGANS POLICEMEN STANDING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANAND, ANOTHER STUDENT LEADER FROM NEW DELHI'S JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, SAYING "Today we have come before the Egyptian Embassy here in New Delhi. We want to tell the Egyptian government and the embassy here that we stand with those struggling people of Egypt and today is a big day where by 10 lakh (one million) people are coming on the streets of Cairo. We feel that we need to express solidarity with them and all against the rise in prices which people there are fighting against, corruption, for the democratic rights. We express full solidarity with them." POLICEMEN STANDING WITH THE PROTESTERS
  • Embargoed: 16th February 2011 00:09
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  • Location: India, India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA8HH9AL0165SGG8QEQ3XB2AALX
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  • Story Text: Students in the Indian capital on Tuesday (February 1) protested outside the Egyptian embassy in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who have been protesting in Cairo against President Hosni Mubarak.
    The young protesters, holding banners, marched towards the Egyptian Embassy shouting slogans against Mubarak, demanding he leave his post.
    "Hosni Mubarak, who has been ruling since 30 years, should leave his post now," said a student leader.
    On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, pushing for the biggest shake-up of the political system since 1952 when army officers deposed King Farouk.
    Anand, a student leader of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, said they were protesting to express their solidarity with the people of Cairo.
    "Today we have come before the Egyptian Embassy here in New Delhi. We want to tell the Egyptian government and the embassy here that we stand with those struggling people of Egypt and today is a big day where by 10 lakh (one million) people are coming on the streets of Cairo. We feel that we need to express solidarity with them and all against the rise in prices which people there are fighting against, corruption, for the democratic rights. We express full solidarity with them," said Anand.
    Initially unorganised, the protests against Mubarak are gradually coalescing into a loose reformist movement encompassing many sections of Egyptian society. Young, unemployed mixed with members of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, the urban poor held hands in solidarity with doctors and teachers.
    Anti-Mubarak reformists and opposition figures in Cairo hope one million Egyptians would join a biggest protest on Tuesday to mark the uprising, which erupted a week ago.
    Mubarak's grip on Egypt looks increasingly tenuous after the army pledged not to confront the tens of thousands of protesters who converged in Cairo to demand an end to his 30-year rule.
    Apparently deaf to the rage that has convulsed the streets for a week, Mubarak, 82, has named his intelligence chief as vice-president, reshuffled the cabinet and made routine economic pledges, as if business as usual could resume and mollify the protesters' anger.
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