Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik want our vote , the majority of vote that they did not in the first stage of the presidential elections. Most of these votes ironically are the Pro-Revolutionary votes who are still in shock on how these two reached to the runoffs.

We are in a very powerful position theotrically and this is why several political groups and powers began to speak about negotiations between them and the presidential candidates especially Morsi and the Muslim brotherhood.

Now most liberal and non Islamist powers and parties are between two hells , between the possibility of the continuity of the military state or the beginning of the religious state. They want guarantees , concessions from the Muslim brotherhood more than Shafik in order to endorse Morsi who is in the end part of the revolution whether you approve or disapprove with the Muslim brotherhood.

A group of liberal and leftist parties and figures presented a document to both candidates with set of demands to keep the state civilian not a military or religious. Bassem Sabry published the articles of that document.

Koert Debeuf , a former adviser of a Belgian PM and current representative of the EU parliament's Alde group in Cairo represented as an outside a set of demands to both candidates  :

• A Non MB Vice president
• A Non MB prime minister
• Half of the cabinet’s ministers to be from outside the MB
• 50% + 1 of the constituent assembly to from outside the Islamists
• All the decisions signed by the president and Vice president.

Interestingly this post was translated in to Arabic and published in Al Moheet website that is owned by Khairat El Shater of MB !! It was also featured in Yosri Fouda’s TV show “Last Talk”

“Kolena Khaled Said” and Wael Ghonim  also presented to the Muslim brotherhood the “National  ” document with a set of demands  and asked the people to approve it online through joining an event on the Facebook. Here is the document in Arabic.

Here are the demands :

• The constituent assembly should include be representative for all Egyptians for real including proper representation for women and Christians. 25% of its members should be law and constitutional experts.
• The President should have two Vice presidents “like Abu El Fotouh and Sabbahi” with set of powers known to everybody.
• Mohamed Morsi to resign from the Muslim brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party. “He actually promised this”
• A new coalition cabinet whose prime minister is from outside FJP and includes women , Christians and Youth for real.
• FJP should include in its agenda laws that support # Jan25 revolution demands like the minimum level of wages.

44,374 Egyptians have approved the document so far @12:43 AM Cairo local time since its launch.

Most of the documents proposed are actually targeting the Muslim brotherhood as well they share the same demands I spoke about before in my post regarding the elections : The VP position , the cabinet and the constituent assembly.

In any political bargaining I think you should negotiate both parties especially if those parties are untrusted. Already I do not have doubt at all that Khairat El Shater is holding talks with SCAF , he is merchant in the beginning and the end.

The Muslim brotherhood youth believe that this is blackmail and I will tell them one thing : This is politics my dear and you should ask Khairat El Shater for his deals with the NDP and SS during the 2005 parliamentary elections.

It is the trial of the century in Egypt that all Egyptians and the whole world will watch tomorrow with a lot of anticipation.

The trial will be transferred on air since early morning. Already the Egyptian TV may collect a fortune tomorrow for allowing the other channels to transfer the broadcast on air just like in football match !!

There are lots of anticipations as well lots of fears.There are not high hopes though because in both cases. Technically tomorrow there will be an army  from armed forces and central security forces outside the police academy. There is great fear from violent clashes in case that Mubarak is acquitted.

The families of the martyrs fear that there will be clashes tomorrow. The Mubarak supporters say that they will respect the court’s final verdict.

Some observers believe that judge Ahmed Rafeat may adjourn the verdict announcement till things calm down after the presidential elections.

People believe that Mubarak and co. will be sentenced then Shafik wins in the elections and pardons him !!

Now here are some interesting numbers about the trial :

• We are having 2 lawsuits here : The killing of the protesters and financial corruption.
• The number of defendants in this trial is 11 and they are : Hosni Mubarak , Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, Hussein Salem in absentia, Habib El Adly , Adly Fiyad , Ismail El Shaer, Omar El Faramawy , Osama El Marasi, Ahmed Ramzy and Hassan Abdel Rahman.
• The number of witnesses in the trial in both cases : 1536 mostly from police officers.
• 4 ministers of interior participated in this trial : One as a defendant “Habib El Adly” and 3 as witnesses “ Mahmoud Wagdy, Mansour Eissawy and Ibraim Youssef”
• The sessions of the trial were 46 in 103 days for 10 months 
• The defense lawyers are 22 including Farid El Deeb , Atef El Manawy and Gamil El Said. Ahmed Ramzy’s lawyer passed away during the trial and they had to search for another one.
• The civil claims lawyers are 100 including Sameh Ashour , Khaled Abu Bakr and Amir Salem.
• The number of the documents in the trial in front of the judges’ panel : 72,000 including forensic reports and prosecution investigations.
• The number of martyrs killed in the early days of the revolution : 846 in the trial.
• The number of injured in the trial : 1368.

Now here is a timeline I made from information I gathered from my blog, Ahram Online English, Al Ahram Newspaper , Al Shorouk Newspaper and Al Masry Al Youm newspaper about the trial since February 11,2011.I am sorry if there are mistakes in the timeline in advance.

And the trial of the century’s first season finale is going to start soon and millions of Egyptians are glued in front of their TV waiting for it to start , waiting to hear the verdict.
It is @8:18 AM right now and the TV channels are broadcasting from inside and outside the courtroom. The Lawyers are inside the courtroom and according to news reports all defendants arrived except Mubarak whose ambulance has not arrived yet from the international medical center. We are waiting for him for the trial’s session would start !!

The security convey by Ali Dahmash

Egyptian journalist Nadia Abu El Maged is inside the courtroom but unfortunately she will not be tweeting from there because mobile phones and water are not allowed there !!
There is technically an army protecting the police academy in a way that makes me mad about all those millions spent to secure such a trial. The police has deployed 5000 policemen and 50 armored vehicles.  There are army forces as well protecting the academy.

According to my friends at the Police academy the Mubarak supporters are not that many compared to the other sessions. The families of the martyrs are protesting outside the Police academy chanting “Wake up Mubarak and get up , today is the final day” and “Execute him , execute him”.
Here is a photo by CNN’s Ben Wedeman showing the families of the martyrs.

@8:27 AM

Mubarak’s helicopter has arrived at the International medical center !!

According to a report published by Reuters written by its military correspondent in Egypt , Mubarak may continue staying at the luxurious medical center even if he is sentenced. Yesterday Al Jazeera reported that Torah prison hospital was being prepared for his transfer.
Here is a reminder of Mubarak’s trial in numbers.
You can follow the trial on twitter on these hashtags : #MubarakTrial and Mubarak in Trial in Arabic #Mubaraktrial
You can watch it alive on ONTV Live broadcast on YouTube.
Here is a shot showing the court room by Sarah El Deeb.

@8:48 AM CLT

The families of the victims have set a ladder , the symbol of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik on fire. Shafik was the last PM appointed by Mubarak.

@9:16 AM CLT

@9:22 AM CLT

@9:36 AM CLT

Mubarak has arrived at the court , he is wearing a training suit and sun glasses , he is laying on a stretcher. “By Sherif Kouddous”

The arrival of Mubarak

Mubarak’s arrival

I notice that the special forces from police are in the scene , I do not see army special forces like before.

@9:48 AM CLT

According to Al Masry Al Youm Khadija El Gamal and Heidi Raskh , the wives of Gamal and Alaa Mubarak arrived outside the court.

The judges arrived at the court panel.

@9:58 AM CLT

The trial has started. Mubarak entered the cage after Alaa, Gamal and El Adly as well other defendants.

The people cheered against Mubarak called him “Pharaoh”

Judge Rafeat called the defendants and Mubarak answered “ I am here”.

Mubarak : I am here

@10:03 AM CLT

Judge Rafeat is now speaking about the verdict, he seems to be nervous. He will give 3 minutes for each defendant to speak.

Judge Rafeat is speaking now , he is addressing the public in a very emotional speech praising the revolution and slamming the former regime in a way that scaring me because I do not want any shocks.

El Adly , Gamal and Alaa Mubarak seemed to be nervous.

@10:32  AM CLT

The sentences :

Mubarak and El Adly took life sentences while all the senior police general “all of the 6 including the corrupted Hassan Abdel Rahman and Ismail El Shaer” were acquitted.

Mubarak , his sons and Salem were acquitted in the corruption case because it was an old one.

The trial’s documents lack proper evidence to convict all the police generals !!

These sentences can create bloody chaos in the country.

The sentence

There are clashes inside the court , the lawyers and people inside it kept screaming “The people want to purge the judiciary”

Pay attention and look who will appear among the pictures in Madonna’s song “Nobody knows me”  in her concert in Tel Aviv , yes our former / ousted president/ prisoner Hosni Mubarak appears in a Madge concert !!

Madonna : Nobody knows me

It was the interlude of her concert there.

The French right wing supporters of Marine Le Pen are angry because the clip featured their leader with a swastika .  I bet Mubarak’s orphans will be angry too and will speak on how Jewish Madonna attacks their daddy despite all the Israeli officials are sad for his departure and praying for Shafk to win in the elections.

Madonna will sing in Abu Dhabi , I wonder if Mubarak’s face will appear there knowing how much the authorities love him in UAE !!

Today is the 45th anniversary of six days war defeat ,  A defeat that we suffer from its  consequences up till now and I am not speaking about the loss of Golan and East Jerusalem but I am speaking about how that defeat affected a whole generation that still suffers from its impact up till now and unfortunately this generation is leading the scene in Egypt.

I remember this when I see in the history of Khairat El Shater and Abdel Moneim Abu El Fotouh how the defeat made them turn in to Islamists as young students, I remember how the current governor of New Valley Army General Tarek El Mahdy said on Rotana Masreya once that the #Jan25 Revolution achieved the goals of the 1967 generation.

Unfortunately my little conversations with army officers online and offline show that they think that the defeat was only military related to bad choice of commanders that was erased by the 1973 war.

Now Army officers tell me that the army will not fall in to the same mistakes and the six days war will not happen again , well I am sure from military point of view it will not happen again insh Allah but what I care is the political decision more than anything. We are on the verge of the unknown and honestly You can not change the military mindset after 60 years so simply in two years nor you can expect old commanders who ages are all over 60 years old to think in the same as young revolutionaries.

I am afraid to say that the 1960s mindset is still among army officers and it is enough to see how they mobilize and promote for Ahmed Shafik online and offline just because he is a military man. Yes you will find them speaking about his platform which unfortunately I have not seen or read as other platforms in details.

Just one look to the Military secrets account on twitter , you will feel that Ahmed Said , the famous Radio host in 1960s is its admin . Today Military secrets account threatened Tahrir square protesters and accused the Muslim brotherhood indirectly of killing the protesters in a new version of 1954. Sadly enough all the old regime TV hosts and journalists are back doing in what they are doing best from kissing the regime’s ass deceiving the public to please the regime.

Once an officer in the air forces told me on twitter that he and his generation from officers will no salute or obey a civilian president as the commander of chief.

Despite you would rarely see an army officer speaking about himself as an officer or about the army before the revolution online whether on twitter and Facebook , you got tons of officers now bragging with their uniforms on twitter speaking about politics in a way that concerns you for real about the national security of this country.

The Six days war defeat in 1967 was the direct result of politics and the military rule as it came out from the book. You got got dictatorship , you got rivalry between Nasser and Amar and you got an army absence from any accountability or supervision.

Nasser kept Abdel Hakim Amar despite his failure in 1956 Suez war and Yemen War not to mention his ultimate fiasco in Syria and the UAR. In Democratic societies Amar would be kicked out his position but Nasser kept him because ironically he feared that Amar would lead a coup against him.

The six days war defeat would not have not occurred in that way or even happened at all if there were a parliament supervising that army as well the intelligence with big eyes holding their commandership accountable like any civilized nation.

The six days war defeat would not have not occurred if we had then a true constitution that organizes the relationship between the army and the state , the president and the government.

Idolizing Nasser as well the army brought that defeat ,isolating army from the correct political supervision claiming its treason is what brought that defeat. Claiming that only military knows the best interest of the country and anyone else to say something opposing their view then is a traitor or insane is what brought this defeat in Egypt.

We are all still paying for the price of that defeat up till now and I am afraid that history repeats itself , we are on the verge of 1954 and after 1954 came all our military and political defeats. I fear that we are heading to another 1967 in our own way where everybody will pay whether people or army or anyone who lives in this country.

I write this post and I know that I will find people who will accuse me of being hostile of the Egyptian army and its enemy , those people are well educated from considerably economically stable background claiming to be liberals where as their right categorization is : Right Wing nationalists !!

Today thousands will head back to Tahrir square through marches and protests in order to express their refusal to the candidacy of Ahmed Shafik as main demand. This Tuesday protest is called Justice Tuesday !!

There will be marches from several places in Cairo and Giza including Mostafa Mahmoud square and El Giza square. It is expected that former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi , Abdel Moneim Abu El Fotouh and Khaled Ali will lead these protests and marches headed to Tahrir square.

The streets are crowded as it is a day in the middle of the week as well it is extremely hot.

There will be marches from places in Alexandria.

The Ultras groups are participating in the protests including Ultras Ahlawy 07

Most protests and marches will start at 5 PM CLT.

@5:17 PM CLT

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi has arrived to Mostafa Mahmoud square protest where couple of thousands are already waiting.

Here is a photo showing the protesters at Mostafa Mahmoud square by Khaled Baramwy.

You can watch the Mostafa Mahmoud from Ana Mubshar’s Live broadcast

There were small protests earlier this morning in Kafr El Sheikh governorate which is considered a stronghold for Hamdeen Sabbahi. According to Freedom and Justice Party officials in the governorate , their members are being mobilized in Cairo.

Khaled Ali is at El Fatah Mosque in Giza along with couple of thousands as well. You can watch the march from El Fatah Mosque from Ana Mubshar Live broadcast. There are members of April 6th Youth Movement along with their flags participating in the march.

@5:40 PM CLT

Famous activist and protester Ahmed Harara is at the march in Mostafa Mahmoud square.

Hundreds of thousands are already protesting in Tahrir square. MP Mohamed El Beltagy of Freedom and Justice Party is in Tahrir square.

Here is a photo showing the march of El Istamqa mosque from Twitter

@5:49 PM CLT

Abu El Fotouh has arrived at Mostafa Mahmoud square.

Ok I found this quote from our famous and beloved 1973 commander late field marshal Abdel Ghani Gamasy (1921-2003)

The military man does not fit political, the reason behind our defeat in 1967 is the involvement of the army men in politics and its games and thus they could not find anything to present in the war field

May Allah bless all our men who gave their lives for this great nation whether in 1967 or in 1973.

Shafik in Today's presser "Reuters"

I am ready to pay my life to save Egypt from the evil of the Muslim brotherhood

At the same he promises to bring stability for troubled Egypt, in fact this what he sells and promises people who got sick from the revolutionary moods in the country yet for any political sciences student his campaign against Muslim brotherhood and his vows to bring down the 80 years Brotherhood is a sign that Egypt will not have any kind of stability.

The tone of hatred towards the Muslim brotherhood in Shadik's camp is escalating per minute to the level you do not need too much brain to guess that Shafik will not only disband the parliament and Freedom and Justice Party "FJP" but he will repeat what happened in 1950s and 1960s against the famous brotherhood. I do not know how some may imagine that this will bring stability to the country. Disbanding the parliament and returning back the NDPians in the front "all his campaigners in Nile Delta and Upper Egypt are from NDPians" will not bring stability but will throw the country in to a turomil God only knows how it will end.

FYI The Muslim brotherhood is the biggest organized force in Egypt in the time being, something only fools can deny.

Shafik hates the revolution and the revolutionary youth can not stomach him either and are ready to go back to the streets and even die for ousting him if he is elected as a president so how the stability can be achieved ? Will it be achieved through security crackdown and return back to state security "which he believes it is still operating according to his statement to Hala Sarhan last Saturday on Rotana Masrey" ??? I think the security crackdown theory proved its failure in the Arab world especially when you are speaking about millions of frustrated young men who proved in the past year and half that they are ready to give up their lives for freedom and democracy.

Shafik will not bring any stability when all the NDP businessmen are standing besides him including the same old corrupted circle of Gamal Mubarak, I do not expect any economic stability resulted from his economic policies. "The Muslim brotherhood does not have better economic program in my point of view". In fact I fear from hunger Revolution if no economic reforms targeting social justice are applied in Egypt. Hunger revolutions in Egypt are ugly, truly ugly if you go back in our history.

Unfortunately Shafik is selling the illusion of stability for the people in the same way the Muslim brotherhood is selling to illusion of economic welfare.

Dear friends stability is not brought by security crackdown or empty threats, stability is brought by political democracy and social justice. Dear friends stability will not be brought by a man who includes Abdullah Kamel, Siyad Ali and Ahmed Moussa in his media team and his men in the governorates are the old NDPians.

Last Friday a group of activists mainly from ladies decided to have  a march against sexual harassment in Tahrir square , it was not matter of hours when we heard that those ladies were attacked , harassed sexually and chased throughout the streets of Downtown Cairo.

The march comes after a bad series of sexual harassments started to take place in Tahrir square following the Mubarak’s trial verdict reaching to its climax on Tuesday when not less than 100,000 protesters were in the square at night.

I remember on that day my dear friend was reporting from the square and had to it because she was alone with no male companion from the amount of verbal harassment and stood at Kasr Al Nil bridge entrance.

Personally I fear to go to Tahrir square alone now despite I used to go alone all the time there. I feel that I am defeated but one thing must be clear for sure I have not lost my faith in the revolution or in this country , I am not afraid despite my personal concern on my safety.

There is a huge social problem in Egypt called “Sexual harassment” no one can deny it but when it comes to Tahrir square , it is well known that this social problem is being used as weapon against the revolution ,it is no longer the revolution square but rather fights/drugs/harassments square and the revolutionary activists know that very well. After year and half , I tell you that this is not the Legendary Tahrir square.

During the 18 days of the revolution and what followed it from several sit ins in 2011 , it was considerable safe not only for protesters but for families yet now who will allow their young daughters to go to Tahrir square if it is not safe full of predators ?

If there are wild beasts chasing any female object walking down in Tahrir square or Mohamed Mahmoud street , I will not allow my girls to go nor I will go alone there except when it is safe.

I knew that this would happen as soon as I saw how the Mainstream media began to idolize Tahrir square turning it in to a symbol , symbols are too easy to be brought down.

Now speaking about sexual harassment in general , well I do not know till we will avoid speaking about the roots of this problem and put the blame on women as usual !! I know it is a universal thing

It is not about religion or economy , it is about culture itself. I will not speak about the roots of this problem in the Egyptian society but let’s say I do not expect that it will be solved any time soon when there MPs who blame girls for sexual harassment or when I find an ad tell the Marriage agencies ads on National TV and how there are foreign grooms available for those ladies interested or even the new AXE Egypt’s campaign about the “hotties” of the Euro !!

Another thing to all those educated Egyptians on twitter from Upper and Middle classes from Mubarak and Shafk’s supporters who are happy and feel proud that the ugly protesters of Tahrir square are being harassed by the other tramps in the square : It is your country’s reputation , of course you do not give a damn for your country’s reputation but in the end you will pay a price for not standing for the right with your silence and your hate to the protesters of Tahrir square. 

There is trouble in Tunisia , mainly between Salafists and the government. The government has already imposed curfew in 8 Tunisian states including the capital Tunis after the violent protests between security forces and Salafists. The clashes started when Salafists attacked some arts exhibition claiming it was defaming Islam in Tunis then the security forces arrested a group of them. The arrests were followed by a series of violent protests by the Salafists in several Tunisian states.

It is the latest escalation between in Tunisia between the Salafists and seculars as well the most direct and violent clash between Salafist and government .The government there follows the Islamist Al Nahda Party.

I am worried about Tunisia because unlike Egypt if the revolution fails there , say good bye to democracy in the Arab World for real. Tunisia is the cradle of the Arab spring without doubt , if it fails it will affect us all.

Of course what happens in Tunisia echoes Egypt and its effects have started. Already our media now is catching the golden moment in Tunisia and is scaring the people from the Islamists like MB and Salafists in Egypt because strangely now Islamists are bad and ..just elect Ahmed Shafik who make them crawl to their dark caves !!!

What happens in Tunisia is dangerous without doubt yet Tunisians will sort it out as they want. I hate how the media is using it in order to market Shafik as the savior against the bad Islamists.

The Islamists in Egypt got their own failures , it is enough to see what happen in the constituent assembly today. By the way huge security down against Islamists did not produce anything except terrorism.  Ideas are fought by ideas , educate your people for people and do not fear their choices.

In the Arab world rulers like in Egypt prefer ignorant people to rule because they are easy to be deceived.

I bet some in Cairo are praying that General Rashid Amar would save the day.