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The Demands of the Revolution
• The dissolution of the National Security Forces; that they be brought under the control and supervision of the legal authority; and a stop to the imprisonment of honest people and politicians, the best of society. In the event that an imprisonment were necessary, then only with the combined approval of the prosecutor’s office and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
• The speedy prosecution of all of the corrupt members of the previous regime
• The return of the nation’s stolen money…………
in its entirety … in its entirety ……….
in its entirety …….
• The formation of committees to investigate the facts surrounding what happened during the Revolution, who are those responsible, and their penalty
• The liberation of all political prisoners and the removal of the jurisdiction of military courts over civilians
• The formation of a technocratic government composed of Dr. Isam Sharaf along with his leaders from among the honest people of this country. There should not be anyone from the previous regime. We are all with the respectable people of this nation for the sake of Egypt
• Making Egypt modern country truly like the advanced countries of the world, Europe, America, and South East Asian which are governed by three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial—and the obliteration of the powers of the President of the Republic and the formation of an democratic parliamentary government
• A complete change of the constitution by the constitutional legal scholars and a committee of advisors.
• A removal of all regional leaders, local councils, every symbol of the previous regime, and anybody responsible for corruption who either participated in it or remained silent about it
• An audience with leaders of this country, all of them: consultants, university professors, and the participation in reform and in developing political consciousness for every Egyptian. An end to illiteracy at last, not just “reading and writing,” but also political illiteracy
• The holding of honorable elections with legal supervision over every electoral box along with local supervision and the supervision of the United Nations that they be as transparent as possible
• The establishing of a timetable for imposing the demands, safeguarding rights, and the interests of every member of the nation
• The organizing a presidential council composed of four civilians and one member of the military leadership
• The hastening of the economic development taking into consideration social justice and the employment of the unemployed youth, the founding of residential organizations to lower prices and giving out interest-free loans to hard-working youths.
• Recompense for all of the martyrs and casualties of the revolution
• Freedom of an elected press—in print and on television—without any governmental or presidential appointments
• A free and elected al-Azhar without any governmental or presidential appointments
• To raise the ceilings of our demands continually for the betterment of Egypt, the Mother of Civilization, because this is what she truly deserves.
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IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Questions Which Have Been Directed at Us
and the Response to Them
• Why are you sitting here?
Well we are staging a sit-in in order to effect our demands. Sit-ins are a guaranteed legal right in every constitution in the world and an inalienable human right as part of freedom of expression
• How long?
Until the status of this country is improved and our demands are met
• What is your response to some of the negative scenes of the sit-in such as….?
We are attempting to deal with each of these happenings as much as possible and keeping away anybody who harms the ethics of the sit-in but [we do it] passively and without violence.
• But you are destroying the country and the economy is failing…
The country is improving as well as traffic passage and we see the Interior Ministry and the police protecting (misspelled in original) the safety of the country, and public servants are going to their jobs as usual, and classes have resumed, and we are undertaking every social activity as usual.
• Where do you come from? Certainly someone is paying you?
Come to the square and look at our situation. It’s hard for you, but we are patient for the sake of a better country and we are paid out of our own simple pockets, and at the very least the protests are necessary. You surely see that no one is paying us and there’s no KFC or any other of the media’s lies.
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In the name of God the Merciful the Compassionate
Why a Sit-In at Tahrir Square?
•The symbolism of a sit-in and it’s propelling the 25th of January Revolution and in order to preserve the demands of the revolution
•Our brothers gave their lives for the sake of these demands and many of us in the square were imprisoned for the sake of these demands
These demands are the reason for their having sacrificed their lives in the coming together and execution of this revolution from virtual reality (the internet) to its practical reality in the square
•The sit-in is in support of Dr. Isam Sharaf
•Traffic is flowing without interruption since we are only occupying a small space (Sinya al-Maydan)
•Everyone knows these sit-ins and demonstrations were what caused change, what changed and brought down the previous president and changed the government of Dr. Ahmad Shafiq and were what produced all of this changes in the consciousness of Egyptian society and the demand of each of its sects for their freedom, honor, and rights
•They are the cornerstone and spearhead of Egyptian society for all of its sectors and the center of freedom which returns to us our honor and freedom
•Whoever wishes to participate let him participate and whoever does not wish to is within his right. Whoever wants to relax and then come, there is nothing stopping him. Everyone is free as they wish.
A group of those in the sit-in
Please do not toss this paper for the name of God is written on/upon it.
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Acquired 9 March 2011.
Translated by Elias Saba.
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