A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

Asmaa Mahfouz told Al-Mihwar TV that the first activity was on Facebook.

“Yes. I was angry that everybody was saying that we had to take action, but nobody was doing anything. So I wrote on Facebook: 'People, I am going to Tahrir Square today'. This was a week before January 25."

“I wrote that I was going to demand the...rights of my country. I wrote that I was 26 years old...,” the Middle East Media Research Institute quoted her as saying.

Asmaa said: “Whenever we talked to the people and told them to express their views, they would say: “Who can we talk to? We will be thrown in prison and tortured.’”