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Mubarak’s effigy hanged from Cairo street lights

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Published Tuesday, February 01, 2011

“I will stay here till I die,” said Osama Allam as the grey Cairo dawn lifted on the biggest day of anger yet against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, whose effigy hangs from nearby traffic lights.

Encircled by tanks and with troops filtering protesters streaming onto the square that has become the epicentre of a week of revolt, men, women and children brandish banners and cardboard signs demanding Mubarak go.

“Choose Mubarak regime or Egypt people,” read one sign in English as protesters nearby carry Mubarak’s mock coffin shoulder-high. Elsewhere on the square people chant slogans against Mubarak’s wife, Suzanne.

“We just want to be able to speak and to be heard. We want freedom and democracy,” said lawyer Allam, with Cairo and Alexandria braced for ‘marches of a million’ despite the authorities shutting roads and stopping trains.

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