Is it the spark of a new revolution? .. 10 information explaining what happened on the day of return to the fields in Egypt

Egypt witnessed an extraordinary day as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets demanding the departure of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, a move that recalled the beginnings of the popular movement in the January 25 revolution in 2011.

Protesters were able to reach some of Egypt's most prominent fields, especially Tahrir Square, the symbol of the January Revolution, which has remained closed to demonstrations and popular gatherings in recent years.

Following are the main events of Friday 20 September in Egypt:

1. The demonstrations included a number of Egyptian governorates, including Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Suez, Gharbia, Dakahlia, Qalyubia, Beni Suef, Sharqiya, Gharbia and Damietta, with the greatest momentum in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez.

2- The demonstrators reached a number of main fields in the governorates of Egypt, most notably Tahrir Square, which the Egyptian authorities have been keen to keep open to cars closed to the demonstrations, because of its symbolism and the role of fueling the revolution in the hearts of Egypt's youth Memories of the 25 January Revolution.

3. The most prominent slogan of the demonstrations was “Leave Yasisi”, and protesters chanted other slogans such as “Say what you fear, the Jaen must walk” and “Go, go”, which marked the January 2011 revolution that toppled the president Former Hosni Mubarak after three decades in power.

4. Security forces' handling of protesters was uneven, but was often not "brutal". Egyptian security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse a demonstration against al-Sisi in Tahrir Square (downtown Cairo) and blocked roads leading to the square, Al Jazeera sources said. The sources added that security launched a campaign of arbitrary arrests in the field.

According to Al Jazeera correspondent that security closed shops and cafes in the vicinity of Tahrir Square and the side streets overlooking it.

Despite the security intervention to break up some of the demonstrations and the arrest of protesters, it was remarkable that witnesses and officers sent messages to reassure the demonstrators and even encouraged them to demonstrate, which was understood by the demonstrators and some observers the possibility of a dispute within the circles of the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and support some of those circles for the demonstrations.

5 - The new movement came in the forefront of Friday's demonstrations in response to an invitation from the contractor artist Mohamed Ali, who considered that it had achieved its first goal is to break the barrier of fear after years of repression, he said.

Mohamed Ali sent letters after the demonstrations came out pledging further steps, and Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Mohamed Zaki called for Sisi to be arrested as a bloodshed for Egyptians.

He stressed that if Sisi is not disqualified and arrested, he will go down to Cairo himself, bearing the Egyptian Minister of Defense the consequences of what may happen, he said.

6. The Tahrir Tahrir Square topped the trend list in Egypt on social media, and ranked first in the world.

The number of tweets on Twitter to mark the Tahrir Square with the early dawn hours to about 700 thousand tweets.

7. No official position has yet been issued by the Egyptian government regarding these striking demonstrations, which have been unprecedented for years.

8. The Egyptian media's handling of the demonstrations ranged from complete disregard to careful handling.

Intelligence-owned channel DMC continued to broadcast enthusiastic songs by Emirati singer Hussein al-Jasmi during demonstrations in Tahrir Square in central Cairo and surrounding areas.

It seems that those in charge of the media - many of whom belonged to the Mubarak regime - learned the lesson of the January 25, 2011 revolution and did not return to photograph the Nile instead of the fields of protest, so wait until the field was forcibly dismantled and photographed.

The same was done by CBC, which ignored the demonstrations until midnight and expelled the demonstrators. Meanwhile, it broadcast videos of singers and artists affirming their loyalty to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

9- The symbols of the January Revolution were absent from the 20 September demonstrations. Most of the symbols of the 2011 revolution were either imprisoned, chased or under house arrest. Most of the participants in the new demonstrations were boys and young people.

10. Observers confirm that yesterday's demonstrations, although not yet in their momentum and strength, have led to a popular revolution; but they broke the barrier of fear and the wall of silence built by the Sisi regime during the past years and prevented the Egyptians from taking to the streets and even from public expression of anti-regime positions.