{"id":5617,"date":"2012-02-06T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2012-02-06T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:43:46","slug":"egypt-general-strike-february-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5617","title":{"rendered":"Egypt General Strike, February 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/genstrikefeb11-e1328582547709.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/genstrikefeb11-e1328582547709.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"601\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>   The Egypt Revolutionaries\u2019 Alliance \u2013 which brings under its umbrella over 50 political groups including the country\u2019s six most prominent revolutionary movements \u2013 listed seven demands to be met in order for its anticipated campaign of civil disobedience to end.<\/p>\n<p>    A host of political groups, university students and workers in various fields have been increasingly calling for a campaign of civil disobedience to begin on 11 February, the one-year anniversary of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak\u2019s ouster.<\/p>\n<p>    The group\u2019s chief demand is the immediate handover of power from the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to a civilian administration in the People\u2019s Assembly (the lower house of Egypt\u2019s parliament). The six additional demands are:<\/p>\n<p>       1. The immediate dismantlement of the incumbent interim government, led by SCAF-appointed premier Kamal El-Ganzouri, and the appointment of a bona fide government of national salvation members of which shall be selected by the People\u2019s Assembly.<br \/>\n       2. The immediate holding of presidential elections.<br \/>\n       3. The formation of an investigative committee mandated with the judicial and executive authority to investigate all crimes and massacres committed by the ruling authorities since 25 January 2011.<br \/>\n       4. The establishment of \u201crevolutionary tribunals\u201d to try all former regime figures found guilty of involvement in crimes committed after the January uprising.<br \/>\n       5. The immediate dismissal of Egypt\u2019s prosecutor general.<br \/>\n       6. The purge and overhaul of Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Interior, especially the National Security apparatus, which continues to be seen largely as a continuation of the notorious, now-defunct State Security apparatus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D5617&amp;text=Egypt+General+Strike%2C+February+11%2C+2012&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egypt Revolutionaries\u2019 Alliance \u2013 which brings under its umbrella over 50 political groups including the country\u2019s six most prominent revolutionary movements \u2013 listed seven demands to be met in order for its anticipated campaign of civil disobedience to end. A host of political groups, university students and workers in various fields have been increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5617#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2447],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}