Al-Ahram Weekly Online   14 - 20 July 2011
Issue No. 1056
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Protesters' demands


- The public trial of all officers involved in killing protesters during the 25 January Revolution.

- The speedy public trial of the Mubarak family and other symbols of the former regime.

- Annulment of all rulings by military courts against civilians and the referral of all cases involving civilians to civil courts.

- Curbs to be placed on the power of the Higher Council of the Armed Forces and greater authority given to the government, including the right to reshuffle ministers and governors.

- Replacement of the current state budget with a new budget, subject to public debate, that favours the poor.

- An increase in the minimum wage to LE1,200.

- Indexing of salaries and inflation.

- Repeal of anti-strike laws, the new party law and the new parliamentary law.

- Compensation for those injured during the revolution, and for the families of those killed.

- Purging government and all state institutions, including the media and banks, of corrupt former regime figures.

- A ban on former NDP members from running in the next two parliamentary elections.

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