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The 2011 Egyptian revolution, ... is an Egyptian Facebook group begun in spring 2008 to support workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, ...
Facebook Revolution may refer to different revolutions and protests, ... Egyptian revolution of 2011, ... 2014 Hong Kong protests or "Umbrella Revolution", ...
The following day, Facebook was shut down. On the night of 27 January 2011 the Egyptian government shut down the Internet in Egypt. SMS (Short Message Service) was also blocked. [1] Popular Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) "backchannel" services such as WhatsApp, used on mobile devices was targeted as well.
Khaled Mohamed Saeed (Arabic: خالد محمد سعيد IPA: [ˈxæːled mæˈħæmmæd sæˈʕiːd]; 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was an Egyptian man whose death in police custody in the Sidi Gaber area of Alexandria on 6 June 2010 helped incite the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Photos of his disfigured corpse spread throughout online ...
In the aftermath of the Tunisian Revolution, young Egyptians spread the call to protest online with the help of a Facebook campaign, "We Are All Khaled Said", organized by the April 6 Youth Movement, Egypt's "largest and most active online human-right activist group". [11] As the call to protest spread, online dissent moved into the offline world.
Similar protests occurred across Egypt with hundreds of thousands in Alexandria, and an estimated 250,000 in Sinai [115] [116] and Suez [117] marking the largest mobilisation in the then eight-day-old protest. Meanwhile, a virtual "March of Millions" was launched on Facebook with the goal of reaching one million voices in support of the march.
AbdelRahman Mansour (Arabic: عبد الرحمن منصور; born in 1987) is an internet activist, journalist and human rights defender.In 2011, he came up with the idea of turning Egypt's National Police Day on 25 January into a Facebook event, "Revolution of the Egyptian People", sparking the online campaign for pro-democracy demonstrations that later snowballed into a popular uprising.
The magazine's annual report stated Ghonim as the primary contributor to the promotion and coordination of the movement of Egyptian youth through "Facebook", adding that Ghonim came to international fame via commercial news outlets word of mouth after his leadership during the Egyptian revolution. [40] [41]