Live blog Feb 14 - Egypt

By Al Jazeera Staff in on Sun, 2011-02-13 23:32.

File 7446Egyptians in Lebanon are commemorating the estimated 300 protesters who were killed in the uprising [EPA] 

From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things in Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo and Alexandria.  

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(All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)

10:26pm Evan Hill, our online producer, just sent a new set of pictures from Cairo entitled, After Mubarak: The New Normal. Check them out here.

10:00pm Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara sat down to speak with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, who reiterated the US committment to the Egyptian people. Our producer sent in updates from the interview, to be aired soon.

"Eveyone has to recognise this transition has a long to-do list and needs a lot of energy," Clinton said. "We must be supportive but not presume we know best what needs to be done.

"The hard work of putting reforms in place must begin."

6:00pm Military council, in a statement read out on state television earlier today, urges people to head back to work, and stop the strikes that have disrupted Egypt's economy.

5:07pm Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, tweets: "And the Valentine's decorations r out. #Egypt #jan25"

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4:04pm Labour protests continue in Cairo, with workers demanding better pay and conditions. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons has this live report from the Egyptian capital:

3:20pm Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the Eurogroup, says he would support a European Union freeze on assets of Hosni Mubarak.

3:08pm Military police are separating groups of demonstrating policemen and anti-police protesters in Tahrir.

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Police demonstrating in Tahrir, demanding better pay and saying they are with the people [EPA]

2:58pm Speaking on NBC's "Today" programme, Sameh Shoukry says he has received information that Hosni Mubarak is "possibly in somewhat of bad health." Two Cairo newspapers said Mubarak was refusing to take medication, depressed and repeatedly passing out at his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. There was no immediate confirmation of the reports.

2:40pm Protests have halted traffic in Tahrir. We're not able to transmit any live pictures because the army has ordered us and other international media outlets to stop filming in the square.

1:20pm Hundreds of people have gathered in Tahrir Square, most of them protesting against the police.

1:03pm The stock exchange has once again delayed reopening and will remain closed until "stability returns to the economy and the financial sector". It has been shut since January 27.

12:53pm Hundreds of police in uniform and plainclothes march in Tahrir Square to show solidarity with protesters who toppled Hosni Mubarak, Reuters reports. Waving Egyptian flags, the police demonstrators shouted "We and the people are one" and said they wanted to "honour the martyrs of the revolution".

12:16pm Our web producer Evan Hill has uploaded a set of pictures from Friday, The Day Mubarak Left.

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12:01pm Police in the city of Bani Suef, 130km south of Cairo, are protesting for better pay more rights, lying down on a bridge.

11:54am We've just published an analysis piece by Adrian Crewe about the challenges facing the transition to civilian rule.

10:54am Google executive Wael Ghonim and blogger Amr Salamahey, two of the activists who organised the protests, say the military council has vowed to rewrite the constitution within 10 days and put it to a referendum within two months.

10:05am Our correspondent Hoda Abdel Hamid says there are "barely any signs that there has been a revolution" at Tahrir Square this morning. No banners, no tents, no protesters chanting and traffic is flowing like before the protests began.

9:35am Pressure is mounting to rid state media of Mubarak loyalists. Watch our latest report from Andrew Simmons in Cairo.

3:45am Wael Ghonim on CBS’s "60 Minutes" tells about his release after 12 days of detention by the Egyptian army:

I removed my blindfold and I said, 'Hi,' and kissed every one of them.All of the soldiers.And, you know, it was good.I was sending them a message.

Ghonim said the beatings were "not systematic".

It was individual based, like, and it was not from the officers. It was actually from the soldiers. And I forgive them, I have to say. I forgive them, because one thing is that they were convinced that I was harming the country. I'm sort of like a traitor, I'm destabilising the country. So when he hits me, he doesn't hit me because... he's a bad guy. He's hitting me because he thinks he's a good guy.

1:35am Egypt's new military rulers dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution on Sunday but said they would govern only until elections to replace ousted president Hosni Mubarak, possibly in six months.

Troops, some wielding sticks, earlier took control of Tahrir Square, the fulcrum of the 18 days of protests that swept Mubarak from power on Friday. It let traffic flow through central Cairo as the army struggled to return life to normal.

12:00am We continue our live blog of February 13 here.

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