{"id":65635,"date":"2011-02-11T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=65635"},"modified":"2011-02-12T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:17:31","slug":"65635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/11\/65635.html","title":{"rendered":"Hosni Mubarak Resigns as President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was &#8220;waiving&#8221; his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Suleiman&#8217;s short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The crowd in Tahrir chanted &#8220;We have brought down the regime&#8221;, \u00a0while many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Mohamed ElBaradei, an opposition leader, hailed the moment as being the &#8220;greatest day of my life&#8221;, in comments to the Associated Press news agency.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n&#8220;The country has been liberated after decades of repression,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n&#8220;Tonight, after all of these weeks of frustration, of violence, of intimidation &#8230; today the people of Egypt undoubtedly [feel they] have been heard, not only by the president, but by people all around the world,&#8221; AlJazeera&#8217;s correspondent at Tahrir Square reported, following the announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8220;The sense of euphoria is simply indescribable,&#8221; our correspondent at Mubarak&#8217;s Heliopolis presidential palace, where at least ten thousand pro-democracy activists had gathered, said.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\nPro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital had marched on the presidential palace and state television buildings on Friday, the 18th consecutive day of protests.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was &#8220;waiving&#8221; his office&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}