Sources: Xinhua
2011 Egyptian protests: Egyptian protestors claims that the Egyptian Army beat them up in Cairo's Tahrir Square. 2011-02-25
The government threatens a crackdown as the protests spread. 2011-02-9
After being released by the authorities, Google executive Wael Ghonim addresses the crowds in Tahrir Square. 2011-02-9
The media reports that President Mubarak's son Gamal resigns as head of the National Democratic Party bureau. Secretary Safwat el-Sharif and the six-member Steering Committee of the General Secretariat also resign. 2011-02-5
President of Israel Shimon Peres, speaking at a European Friends of Israel (EFI) conference in Jerusalem, defends Mubarak, calling him a "peacemaker" whose "contribution to peace would never be forgotten". 2011-02-5
Journalists from Al Jazeera and the BBC are among those targeted in fresh attacks from Mubarak regime "thugs". The UK's Channel 4 News reports that Mubarak's "secret police" are threatening journalists to keep off the streets of Cairo. 2011-02-3
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan completely backs the people of Egypt in their battle against the Mubarak regime. Newspapers had previously criticised him for his lack of a response to the revolution there. 2011-02-1
Several prison breaks occur, including the escape of 5,000 from a jail in Faiyum Governorate, many including 34 members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Wadi El Natrun, where eight people were killed in riots, and at least eight Hamas militants from Abu Zaabal Prison in Cairo, two of them escaping to Gaza, and two policemen and twelve escaped inmates were killed there; many more escaped from Tora Prison in Cairo, close to where 'dozens' of people were killed. Soldiers have been deployed outside of many prisons. 2011-01-30
The BBC condemns the treatment given to one of its reporters, who has been deliberately assaulted by police while doing his work in Cairo. He was beaten up with steel bars, "the ones used here for slaughtering animals". 2011-01-29