World citizens express solidarity with Egypt protests

Sat, 05/02/2011

Protests were staged in several countries around the world in solidarity with Egyptian protesters calling for the departure of Mubarak's regime.

Approximately 1000 people assembled on Friday in Amman, Jordan in response to calls by the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, to express solidarity with Egyptian protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

Dozens of Jordanians had also protested on Thursday in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Amman in a gesture of support for Egyptian protesters.

In northern Lebanon, the Islamic Liberation party organized a march in support of anti-Mubarak protests in Egypt and called for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. Around 300 people carrying flags with the words “There is no God but Allah” marched from al-Mansouri al-Kabeer mosque in Tripoli to downtown, where they staged a sit-in.

The National Working Group in Morocco--which has representatives from the country’s different parties, associations and syndicates--called for a solidarity protest to be staged on Friday under the motto “Go Mubarak... Egypt will stay.” Similar protests were staged in Tunisia in front of the Egyptian Embassy.

Dozens of Iranians also protested in Tehran to support the ousting of Muabrak’s regime.

In Asia, hundreds of Malaysians protested in front of the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and raised banners calling for the overthrow of Muabrak’s regime.

In Europe, French activists from Reporters Without Borders protested in front of the Egyptian embassy in Paris and raised banners expressing sympathy with the reporters who were injured in the protests in Cairo. In Madrid, activists collected the signatures of 80,000 activists who called for the respect of human rights in Egypt.

Source: al-Masry al-Youm.
Link: http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/world-citizens-express-solidarity-egypt-protests.