During the 12 years Baradei spent at the IAEA, he confronted some of the world's most repressive regimes — including those in Iran and North Korea — about their nuclear capabilities. He also earned the contempt of U. Bush for denying the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a stance that contributed to ElBaradei winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Mubarak's main rival in the last presidential elections, in , was Ayman Nour , leader of the liberal democratic party El Ghad "Tomorrow" in Arabic.
Nour earned seven per cent of the vote but after the election, was convicted of having forged campaign documents — a charge Nour denies. His subsequent imprisonment was largely seen as a politically motivated manoeuvre on the part of Mubarak. He was released three years into a five-year term, but Egyptian law says he is disqualified from running for political office for at least five years after the end of his original jail term.
After Mubarak's resignation, Nour told Al Jazeera that "the nation has been born again. Any discussion of Egyptian politics must include the Muslim Brotherhood. Although it has been officially banned in Egypt since , this Islamist group is the country's unofficial opposition. Ghonim is the founder of Parlio. The Current Social media can start a revolution but people have to finish it, says Wael Ghonim In , at the height of the political uprisings in Egypt, Wael Ghonim said that to liberate a society, all you need is the internet.
Today, he's not so sure. Ghonim went missing on Jan. His whereabouts were not known until Sunday, when a prominent Egyptian political figure confirmed he was under arrest and would soon be released. Fifi Shawqi, a year-old woman who came with her three daughters and her sister to the Tahrir protest for the first time, said Ghonim inspired her. I felt like he is my son and all the youth here are my sons," she said. Men and woman alike are singing and chanting.
There were demonstrations calling for the president's ouster around the country as well, with 18, people cramming into the main square of Egypt's second largest city in Alexandria. Many demonstrators reject a group of officially sanctioned and traditional Egyptian opposition groups that have been negotiating with the government on their behalf in recent days.
Are you in Egypt? Share your photos, videos and stories. FAQs: Egyptian crisis: How did we get here? The president has repeatedly warned that protests and demonstrations risk causing chaos that would disrupt efforts at repairing the country. Also Sunday, Egyptian prosecutors ordered the brother of a prominent Egyptian activist to remain in custody for 15 days, a rights lawyer told AP. Wael Ghonim is in self-exile in the U. He has recently been criticizing el-Sisi on social media, and says his brother's arrest from their parents' home in Cairo was retaliation for that criticism.
Mahinour el-Masry, a rights lawyer and notable activist from the uprising, was arrested Sunday as well. Egyptian authorities have imposed heavy security in the capital, Cairo, particularly around near Tahrir Square. That was the epicentre of the so-called Arab Spring uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak in El-Sisi is a former army general who has overseen an unprecedented political crackdown, silencing critics and jailing thousands.
Shortly after the military took power in , a sit-in by Islamists was broken up by security forces in an operation that left hundreds dead.
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