The US, British and French newspapers have been interested in the ongoing protests in Egypt. They have been described as a new challenge by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his efforts to crush dissent.
The Wall Street Journal said Egyptians' exit - even if they were in the hundreds - on the streets of Cairo and other cities is a new challenge to the rule of Sisi, adding that the protests, although small compared to the protests during the Arab Spring, they are important because they challenge the broad government efforts that oversaw Sisi has to eliminate political opposition since he took power after his 2013 military coup.
The Washington Post described the Sisi regime's attempts to contain the effects of the sudden and dangerous campaign in which businessman and artist Mohamed Ali revealed the secret world of the army and the corruption that engages him, a hysteria.
The shock that stirred the Egyptians
In a report from Cairo, the paper pointed out that under a corruption-ruled military regime, graft charges in Egypt seemed normal and even predictable, but the shock was when it was revealed to the people that Sisi, his wife, and senior army generals were the alleged perpetrators.
She said the spark that sparked Egypt's anger was Mohamed Ali's revelation that Sisi had spent hundreds of millions of dollars of public money building a luxury hotel and palace.
In the British Guardian newspaper, Ruth Michaelson wrote that those who took to the streets risked arrest and the constant threat of force against them by the Egyptian authorities, noting that observers marveled at the willingness of the demonstrators to go out, even for a limited period, in a country with an estimated 60,000 political prisoners.
"All the grievances that led to people taking to the streets in large numbers in Egypt are still there," Michaelson said. The question now is how will the government deal with these protests?
Egyptian security forces arrested more than 60 protesters after they gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo and several other cities in the country, according to the British website Middle East Eye.
The website pointed out that this is reminiscent of the January 2011 revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, and explained that the Facebook page of the Egyptian Center recorded the names of detainees.
In the French newspaper Le Monde, Elaine Salone wrote under the headline "In Egypt", some protesters risked unusually demonstrating against Sisi, and she wondered what could happen to this protest movement in the context of repression in Egypt? To say that some Egyptians are convinced that the wall of fear has fallen.