Protests in Egypt

This article is about the protests in Egypt. The beginning of the article talks about how the vice president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, said in a press conference that there is no plan of the President, Hosni Mabarak, to step down and resign, this being the main demand of the protesters. The article also talks about how a CBC reporter comments on the protests by saying, "This movement is not shrinking, not losing momentum, but is, in fact, growing and enthusiastic." This shows that the President can't just wait it out becuase the people of Egypt are more enthusiastic than ever and all they want is for the President to resign. The last thing the article talks about is how the protesters look up to a man, Wael Ghonim, an exectutive of Google. Ghonim was captured by the police and held in custody for two weeks. When he was released he continued his work by setting up a facebook page that supports the protests in Egypt.

I think that the fact that the vice president has said that the president isn't going to resign means that the government has no intentions of stepping down just yet. I think he has no choice though because the protests won't stop until he has resigned so he's really just passing by time. I think that it's really great that the protests are gaining strength in numbers because it shows that a nation can unit as one and fight for what they believe is right. I also think that is is wrong that the police arrested Wael Ghonim for no justified reason.


http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/08/egypt-cairo-tahrir-google-mubarak.html