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An ABC News crew are carjacked and threatened with decapitations by pro-Mubarak supporters.
2011-02-3

The protestors increase their demands for the end of the Mubarak regime and are not impressed by Hosni Mubarak's promise to resign at the end of his current term.
2011-02-2

United States Department of State spokesman P. J. Crowley is criticised after appealing for ""all sides"" in Egypt to "show restraint and avoid violence".
2011-02-2

The Egyptian Army calls on protesters to "help restore normal life".
2011-02-2

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

People gather in historic Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States to peacefully protest against the Mubarak regime. They wave Egyptian flags, hold up signs, chant for Mubarak's resignation and call for an end to cell phone and Internet censorship perpetrated by the Egyptian government.
2011-01-29

The parliament speaker says Egypt has no plans for early elections despite the mass popular demonstrations against the government.
2011-01-29

Thousands of demonstrators converge on Egypt's Interior Ministry, one of the most visible signs of state authority in Egypt. Police shoot the demonstrators. Medical aid is given at the doors of mosques.
2011-01-29

Protesters gather outside the Egyptian embassy in Washington, D.C., with the organisers saying they want the people of Egypt to know that Americans are watching and aware of events in the country.
2011-01-29