National Police
Day
National
Police Day is a national holiday
in Egypt that occurs
each year on January
25.
The holiday
commemorates and is a remembrance for 50 police officers killed and
more wounded when they refused British demands to hand over weapons
and evacuate the Ismaïlia Police
Station on 25 January 1952. The British Army
surrounded the police station, then
brought tanks in and took over the police station. The event was
photographed by a local and photos published, inciting anger and
riots throughout
Egypt.
January 25
was declared as an official holiday in 2009 by Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
to recognize the efforts of Egyptian
police to maintain security and stability in Egypt and recognized
their sacrifices.
A number of
Egyptian opposition groups chose this day to start mass protests in
2011, which turned into a massive popular revolution swept across
the country on January 28. This revolution is known as
the Revolution of 25
January. And out President Hosni Mubarak
stepped down from office, and took over the Supreme Council of the
armed forces to lead the
country.
Hosni
Mubarak
Muhammad
Hosni El Sayed Mubarak : born 4 May
1928 is a former Egyptian politician,
leader and military commander. He served as the
fourth President of Egypt
from 1981 to
2011.
Mubarak was
appointed Vice President of
Egypt in 1975, and assumed the presidency on
14 October 1981, following the assassination of
President Anwar
Sadat. His almost thirty-year presidency made
him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali
Pasha. Before he
entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the
Egyptian Air
Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to
1975 and rising to the rank of air chief
marshal.
Mubarak was
ousted after 18 days of demonstrations during the
2011
Egyptian revolution when, on 11
February 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman
announced that Mubarak had resigned as
president and transferred authority to the Supreme
Council of the Armed Forces. On 13 April,
a prosecutor ordered Mubarak and both his sons to be detained for
15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of
power . He was then ordered to stand trial on
charges of negligence for not giving orders to stop the killing of
peaceful protestors during the
revolution.These trials officially began on 3
August 2011. Egypt’s military prosecutors then
also proclaimed that they were investigating Mubarak's role in the
assassination of his predecessor Anwar
Sadat.
On 2 June
2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment
by an Egyptian court. After sentencing,
he was reported to have suffered a series of health crises. As of
20 June 2012, multiple sources reported that he was very
ill, with some reporting that he was in a coma, others stating that
he had had a stroke or had been on life
support.
With
the U.S.
President, George W.
Bush, in
2002
Discover the collectors' agenda!
Discover the agenda
