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Egyptians rally, demand trials for police shooters

16 July 2011 01:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Thousands of Egyptians, increasingly impatient with their interim military rulers, rallied Friday in the nation’s two largest cities, ringing a security building with chants of "Oh police, you are thugs" and demanding trials for police officers suspected of killing of hundreds of activists in the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak, APA reports referring AP.
The protests in the capital of Cairo and the port city of Alexandria were billed as the "Friday of Last Warning" to the military council that took over from Mubarak and is to lead Egypt to democracy. Large crowds streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square as the sun set, bringing relief from the day’s soaring temperatures.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s best-organized political group, and the ultra-conservative Salafi movement stayed away. The Islamists are campaigning hard for parliamentary elections later this year and apparently want to avoid friction with the military rulers who will set the final date and rules for the vote.
For the past week, hundreds of hardcore activists have camped out at Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 18-day popular uprising that ousted Mubarak on Feb. 11. They want the military council to purge all remnants of the Mubarak regime.