Sources: Al Jazeera
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, says that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of "Islamic awareness". 2011-02-4
Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square chant "Leave! Leave! Leave!", "Allahu akbar!" and "Today is the last day". 2011-02-4
Video footage emerges on YouTube of a police van being driven at high speed into peacefully marching anti-regime protesters. 2011-02-3
The government closes down Egyptian National Railways as well as Internet and mobile phone services. 2011-02-1
The Egyptian Army states that it will not use force against protesters. 2011-01-31
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 protests continue as Egyptian Army tanks surround Cairo's Tahrir Square. 2011-01-29
"The Daily Telegraph" reports that the American government secretly backed leading figures behind the unfolding Egyptian uprising. 2011-01-28
Police target protesters in Cairo with tear gas and water cannon, while tear gas is used on protesters in Alexandria. 2011-01-28