Hassan al-Roueini (right) and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey (2012)
Hassan al-Roueini is the Egyptian military commander for the Cairo area. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
On 10 February General al-Roueini told protestors in Tahrir Square, "All your demands will be met today".[1] On the following day President Hosni Mubarak ceded power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. On 23 March 2011 Major General al-Roueini welcomed US Defence Secretary Robert Gates to Cairo.[2]
Major General al-Roueini has promised that secret military tribunals - at which between seven and ten thousand Egyptian citizens were tried between February and July 2011 - will be phased out once the state proescutor's office is properly functioning.[3]
References[]
- ↑ "Military says Mubarak will meet protesters demands". Apnews.myway.com. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20110210/D9LA0CHO0.html. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ↑ "Robert Gates, Hassan al-Roueini". 2011-03-23. http://abcnews.go.com/meta/search/imageDetail?format=plain&source=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2Fimages%2FUS%2Fd4e48d2536ea47eda0b906bd892af2c4. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ↑ Joshua Hammer, with Amina Ismail, Egypt: Who Calls the Shots?, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2011
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