Egypt: Calls for civil disobedience intensify

Some 11 universities and other political groups are promoting calls for civil disobedience starting 11 February until the military rulers step down and hand power over to an elected civilian authority. 'We called for a gradual strike and if the demands aren’t met we will escalate to civil disobedience as we had depleted all other peaceful means of protesting,' Mahmoud Afify, spokesman of the April 6 Youth Movement, said. A variety of sectors, mainly students and labor unions, welcomed the idea.