As part of his desperate and relentless fight against the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is using a blockbuster Ramadan drama to demonise the Islamic group and show himse.
Egypt still has a long way to go before it can be regarded as a state adhering to the rule of law. Gamal Eid from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information accuses the Military Council of committing serious human rights abuses. Claudia Mende introduces the combative lawyer
Egypt still has a long way to go before it can be regarded as a state adhering to the rule of law. Gamal Eid from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information accuses the Military Council of committing serious human rights abuses. Claudia Mende introduces the combative lawyer
thank you so much. here we are at six minutes past the hour. take a look at this scene. this was overnight in cairo s tahrir s square, once again, erupting in violence. 1,000 protesters staged demonstrations demanding the ruling egyptian military council prosecute former president hosni mubar mubarak. they respond would bursts of gunfire and tear gas and also using sticks to beat back the crowd. yesterday some soldiers defied their commanders and joined the protests. also, getting new video of libyan leader moammar gadhafi. take a look at what you re seeing here shows him visiting what looks to be a school in tripoli. students were cheering him on as he was there. gadhafi says nato targeted that school to be attacked, but the students refused to leave. else where the african union convenes today to find a path to piece in libya. the group will travel to meet with leaders in benghazi and
there still seems to be april sense of revolution in the air. what are you feeling? reporter: well, certainly what we re seeing here, the revolutionaries who helped topple a dictator during 18 historic days, trying to capture that energy again and reinject themselves into a political process that they feel they are being marginalized from. there s the world famous tahrir square where you have more than 10,000 people gathered right now. many of them criticizing the current ruling, egyptian military council that is running the show right now and has been entrusted with managing what is supposed to be a transition to democracy. and the demonstrators here worried that some of the decisions taken by the ruling military council are not in line with what they manage the future of egypt should be. there s a carnival atmosphere down there despite violence crackdown on previous protests