Die Massenproteste in Ägypten begannen beeinflusst von der Revolution in Tunesien am 25. Januar 2011.
Aber sie hatten eine Vorgeschichte auf Facebook (vgl. ZEIT online) . Als bei der afrikanischen Fußballmeisterschaft im Januar 2008 ein Fan auf die Idee kam, eine Facebook-Gruppe set up for fans of the Egyptian team his group soon had 45 000 members. In this period also increased the number of Facebook users in Egypt sharply within a few months, it stood at one million.
As in the town of Mahalla al-Kubra in the Nile Delta textile workers there for the 6th April 2008 a planned strike, the engineer Maher came up with the idea of making the strike on Facebook become known throughout the country and to organize demonstrations in Cairo. This was the beginning of the 6th Jugenbewegung April . On 23 3. he sent out his first Facebook messages, 24 he had 3000 followers, the end of March 40 000 The demonstrations in Cairo were a fiasco, the strike ended in bloody, but remained the follower. For when only a political companion, then he himself was abused and tortured by the Than police, remained unclassified.
The continuation of the story we all share.
Facebook was certainly only one block. Certainly not the most important. Exporting to Ch Kappes on the word of the "Face Book Revolution" (his position (extremely brief): people make revolutions, not media). The
have confirmed when one considers how acted the peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe contacts between activists on development in Egypt. Gene Sharp nonviolent strategy also played there a role.
torture of Egyptians who spoke with journalists
