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Egyptians demand quicker move to democracy at protest rallies
Friday 30 September 2011, by
Thousands of protesters, including the US actor Sean Penn, took to the streets across Egypt on Friday to call for an end to emergency laws dating back to the rule of Hosni Mubarak, and blamed for some of that era’s worst human rights abuses.