a scene from tahrir scare, egypt. the protesters. you would think this is before hosni mubarak announced he was leaving. what you re seeing happened march 9th, a sign that the new egypt continues to be plagued by old problems. more from cnn s ivan watson. reporter: a young egyptian singing a rebel song. in tahrir square, the epicenter of egypt s revolution, he raised his voice in protests during 18 historic days and nights which brought down a despot and left many egyptians full of hope. he can say anything he want without being afraid.
astein from tahrir square, egypt. hosing the protesters. you would think this is before hosni mu bbarak announced he wa leaving. egypt continues to be plagued by problems. reporter: a young egyptian singing a rebel song. in tahrir square, the epicenter of protests, he raised his voice in protests that brought down a d despot and left many egyptians
a scene from tahrir scare, egypt. the protesters. you would think this is before hosni mubarak announced he was leaving. what you re seeing happened march 9th, a sign that the new egypt continues to be plagued by old problems. more from cnn s ivan watson. reporter: a young egyptian singing a rebel song. in tahrir square, the epicenter of egypt s revolution, he raised his voice in protests during 18 historic days and nights which brought down a despot and left many egyptians full of hope. he can say anything he want without being afraid. reporter: look what happened to him nearly a month later,
egypt as a success story. but the fall of the mubarak regime and celebrations thatle foll that followed came with a price. we are getting reports of all e alleged abuse and torture after mubarak was gone. reporter: a young egyptian singing a rebel song. reporter: in tahrir square, the epicenter of egypt s revolution, he raised his voice in protest during 18 historic days and nights which brought down a despot and left egyptians full of hope. you can sing anything you want without being afraid. reporter: look what happened to him nearly a month later. beaten, battered and scarred after soldiers detained him. translator: the torture took
around the world see ypthe volution in egypt as a success story. but cnn s ivan watson shows us it s far from successful. at least not y. singing a rebel song. be reporter: a young egyptian in tahrir square, the epicenter st the revolution, they raised their voice in protest during 18 historic days and nights that left many egyptians full of hope. now we can say anythin we want. but look what happened to his son barely a month later, beaten, battered and scarred after egyptian soldiers detained him. the torture took four hours. they remooifed myus clothes. they used sticks, wires, ropes, hoses, whips. there was also electrocution. there wasan an officer who ould