Egypt: Free elections in the land of the 'donkey law'?
latimes: In the smoggy, jostling streets of the Egyptian capital, people of all political stripes greeted President Hosni Mubarak's surprise call for an open presidential election with deep skepticism Sunday.
"President Mubarak will remain in charge, and everybody will keep playing their roles," said Mohammed Ibrahim, a 30-year-old gardener who had made his way into Cairo to peddle potted pansies, rosemary bushes and lavender plants. "Mubarak's not going to shake things up."
....Egypt has been in an official state of emergency, subject to martial law, since President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. The media are carefully censored on topics ranging from Mubarak's health to donkeys: Egyptian authorities are so eager to project modernity that a "donkey law" bans publications from printing photographs of the many donkeys that occupy the streets of Cairo. Link
"President Mubarak will remain in charge, and everybody will keep playing their roles," said Mohammed Ibrahim, a 30-year-old gardener who had made his way into Cairo to peddle potted pansies, rosemary bushes and lavender plants. "Mubarak's not going to shake things up."
....Egypt has been in an official state of emergency, subject to martial law, since President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. The media are carefully censored on topics ranging from Mubarak's health to donkeys: Egyptian authorities are so eager to project modernity that a "donkey law" bans publications from printing photographs of the many donkeys that occupy the streets of Cairo. Link
posted by exoplanet at 12:27 PM
<< Home