Protests against the Mubarak regime go on nationwide for a seventeenth consecutive day. 2011-02-10
Human rights groups say the military is secretly detaining and torturing hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents and has been doing so since the protests started. 2011-02-9
Anti-government protesters demonstrate against the Mubarak regime for an eleventh day - the "Day of Departure". 2011-02-4
Al Jazeera's Cairo office is stormed by "gangs of thugs" who ransack it and set it on fire as attacks on foreign journalists continue. 2011-02-4
Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square chant "Leave! Leave! Leave!", "Allahu akbar!" and "Today is the last day". 2011-02-4
Egypt's attorney-general bans several former ministers and Ahmed Ezz, a prominent member of the ruling party who resigned last week, from travelling abroad; their bank accounts are also frozen. 2011-02-3
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
President of the United States Barack Obama urges Hosni Mubarak not to run for the presidency again, though stops short of telling him to resign immediately. He also called for the transition to democracy "to begin now". 2011-02-1
Two mummies housed at the Egyptian Museum are destroyed and statues are broken into pieces, though ordinary citizens unite to prevent further destruction. The vandals are reported to have been convicts who escaped amid the protests. 2011-01-29