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I am worried about my motherland. My family, my wife and children live there and I am very concerned about everything that happens there. So many people died but Mubarak doesn’t want to cede the power. Now he and the people around him are concerned about their treasures. He will leave as soon as they are secured. Ben Ali took a ton and a half of gold, Mubarak will take 4-5 tons with himself."

There were many young people not older than 25 years among the protestors. They told how the movement against the President Hosni Mubarak has emerged in social networks.

It all started with making a group on Facebook where photographs and materials relating to the murder of a young man by the police were uploaded. Khaled Said was in an internet cafe late in the evening when two police officers asked him to give them money. He answered that he had no money and they started beating him brutally until they killed him. The story soon crossed the borders of the country and Egyptians from around the world joined the group. Dissatisfaction with police violence have ignited views against the government and its authoritarian rule which led to today's protests in Egypt.

All the demonstrators I spoke with expressed the belief that the Egyptian people were determined to continue the protests to the end. They said this was the only way to introduce democracy, justice and equality in the country.