Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak the 72 year old President of the Arab Republic of Egypt who assumed the Presidency in 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat, himself surviving six assassination attempts, defended in a televised address his use of security forces to control thousands of Egyptian protestors who had gathered and battled lines of riot police. Mubarak claimed in the address that it was his job was to protect the nation from chaos, however the initially peaceful chanting of the protestors turned violent with the state closure of Facebook and Twitter. These closures were closely followed by the whole of the internet the mobile phone network, and finally the house arrest of Mohamed ElBaradei the opposition figurehead.

Inspired by CNN’s Nic Robertson, Frederik Pleitgen, Salma Abdelaziz http://ow.ly/3MqrC

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