Overthrow the system : the Arab revolutions of freedom and dignity

Abstract

The Mubarak regime in Egypt, with all its corruption and tyranny, could have remained in power for more years, under Mubarak the father or the son, deceiving the world and large sectors of the Egyptian society itself, if it had not been scandalized by the outrageous actions of its own police. Back in 2010, a few months before the popular uprising on January 25th 2011, the 28 year old Khalid Said was killed in broad daylight by the hands of two policemen, in front of all his neighbours on a street in Alexandria. Said was not a political activist or member of any opposition group; he was just an ordinary urban young man from the Alexandrian middle class, who refused to be subject to the degrading procedures of the rule of suspicion. [Extract]