| Military and civilian security personnel tear down tents and forcibly clear Tahrir Square on the first day of Ramadan, ending the three-week sit-in launched by martyrs’ families. |
| By ET staff |
| 3 Former President Hosni Mubarak goes on trial, wheeled in on a stretcher and denying accusations of corruption and involvement in killing protesters. His two sons Alaa and Gamal are also in the dock, alongside former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly and six senior security officials.The hearings are broadcast on national TV and Mubarak is held in a hospital between court appearances. The administration of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation is dissolved. The Muslim Brotherhood holds its first public internal election since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt’s largest political group elects three new members to the group’s 17-member executive board to replace those who joined the leadership of the group’s newly launched Freedom and Justice Party. The military sends large numbers of troops into North Sinai to secure the area, where a series of attacks by Islamist militants have rocked the northern town of El-Arish. Egyptair hostesses continue their protest since July to lift a ban on wearing the veil during flights. Blogger Asmaa Mahfouz is arrested and charged with defaming and instigating violence against the military through social media. Liberal political groups launch a coalition named the Egyptian Bloc to challenge influential Islamists in the parliamentary elections, recently pushed to November. Minister of Information Osama Heikal sacks 385 Egyptian Radio and Television Union consultants, including 20 legal advisers, in an attempt to cut costs. Egypt’s government revives an amended version of a 60-year-old anti-corruption law. Under the so-called “Treason Law,” any government official, parliament member or minister may be punished for abuse of power if they, their relatives or acquaintances benefited from any public office they had held. 18 Six Egyptian military personnel are killed on the border as Israel hunts militants who allegedly crossed from Sinai and killed eight Israelis near Eilat. After nonstop protests in front of the Israeli Embassy following the killing of six Egyptians, a young man, soon nicknamed the Flagman, scales the embassy building, takes the Israeli flag down and raises an Egyptian one in its place. The Student Union of Egyptian Universities holds its first elections since the 1970s. A strike by train employees brings all train movement in Egypt’s Delta region to a grinding halt. The Arabic Network for Human Right Information releases a joint report with the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights alleging that Egypt’s local press continues to operate on the same pre-revolution biases. The 20-day study finds that Al Akhbar newspaper is the most loyal to SCAF, while Al Masry Al Youm is the most critical. The month’s CAPMAS figures indicate that Egypt’s trade deficit has reached $3 billion, a growth of 22 percent over August 2010, to hit LE 18.1 billion ($3 billion). The increase in trade deficit reflects a 16.2 percent rise in import prices. Foreign currency reserves fall to $25 billion at end of August from $35 billion at the end 2010. |
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