Global News That Dominated This Week
After a day of historic protests, restless youth's continue to fight police at Egypt's Cairo defying President Hosni Mubarak's curfew. Reported to be the worst civil unrest in recent history, it has lasted for the six days of protests. Egyptians have taken over to the streets to oppose President Mubarak whom has ruled the country for 30 years. Internet lines and main telecommunication companies has been shut down to prevent protesters from organizing via text messages or famous social networking sites such has Facebook and Twitter. Mubarak's regime have also taken heavy measures against international media. The Associated Press said that prisoners had escaped from four prisons but many Egyptian activists wonders wether the regime is just creating security panic in order to send protesters running back home.
Response
This is a serious issue in Egypt that might just become worse if their President doesn't take the right action to reside this civil unrest. In my opinion, they should take more subtle actions to calm the situation down instead of banning means of communication as that might further enrage the protesters in continuing. This can be seen as them being deprived as their right for the freedom of speech.
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