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Ten years on from Egypt s Arab Spring - what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries?
Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything?
24 January 2021 • 1:57pm
A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on Feb 18, 2011
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The last time I spent an afternoon with Mina Naguib, both he and his revolutionary ideals were about to take an unexpected battering. It was the height of Egypt s Arab Spring revolution and, in Cairo s Tahrir Square where he and thousands of others were demanding the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak, we had just survived what became known as the Battle of the Camels .
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“It’s true that we haven’t yet achieved freedom, but we can at least dream about it and imagine it,” Syrian civil rights activist Kenan Rahmani said three years ago. He was speaking in response to a survey by the website Raseef22 that posed the question “Would it have been better if the Arab Spring had never happened?”
This month, The Guardian published the results of another poll, with more than 5,000 respondents around the Arab world, conducted on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the eruption of the protests. Judging by the results, Rahmani’s view doesn’t have many supporters today. Out of the eight countries where Arab Spring uprisings took place – Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Algeria – at least 50 percent of the respondents in five countries said their situation today is worse than before the protests.
They were also charged with forging his arrest warrant and intentionally damaging the interior ministry.
One of the police officers in the case was acquitted.
In October, Awais Al-Rawi was shot to death by an Egyptian policeman during the September protests after he objected to them insulting and abusing his father and entering the house without a warrant.
His death also went viral on social media, with users posting under the Arabic hashtag, We are all Awais Al-Rawi.
Khaled Saeed became an icon of police brutality after images of his battered corpse went viral in 2010 and contributed towards the Egyptian revolution.
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