hosni mubarak resigned one week later.ef abdel kouddous continues to report for us from egypt. on september 21, 2011, democracy now! broadcast live for six hours from the grounds of the prison in georgia where troy anthony davis was executed. we were the only news outlet to continuously broadcast live from the death row prison grounds. from george's death row prison in jackson, this is a democracy now! special broadcast. we are just an hour from the scheduled execution of troy anthony davis, and execution the whole world is watching. >> i would like to say, i have been battling cancer for 10 years and i don't have cancer, but i'm reaping some of the effects. i was doinghs ago, fine. and after that, i could not get out of the chair. but i'm here to tell you that i'm going to stand here for my brother today. [applause] >> i am troy davis. you are troy davis. we are joined to us. p.m., atf death 11:08 the time media witnesses will be coming out to give a firsthand account of what happened. sharing theofficial news that choi a

. >> for sale the surveillance they've enabled date back to 2011 when hosni mubarak was ousted as president suggesting they weren't only facilitated to help clamp down on dissent after the arab spring. but it does appear all the technology has proved useful to the current government. this audio clip lifted from an audio phone call between mohammed morsecy and a close friend in which they discuss what to do while the hundreds of protesters were killed by egypt's security services in 2013. the clip was played on egyptian television. they were arrested and jailed. they're convinced this technology helped to portray them and thousands of others as traitors. >> they try to go into their phones and take personal information. now it becomes--like for many activists now who are in egypt and trying to work in the field of human rights, for example, or work in the fields of trying to--any civil society actions. they have to take extreme security precautions because they know there is surveillance. >> this revelation comes after an italian surveillance company called "hacking team" was itself hacked a

. >>> five years ago today, egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to step down in the midst of massive demonstrations. looking back, some say the rights they demanded remain far out of reach. >> reporter: these are egyptian citizens who have recently disappeared. some are activists. others are journalists. this human rights organization has been investigating their cases. they've long suspected that the government is responsible. but it was only last month that the minister of interior finally admitted that the 114 people out of nearly 200 missing are in detention. they' . >> translator: it's definitely a human rights violation to detain someone for one year or two years without giving any information about it to his or her family or lawyer. >> reporter: maha has been looking for her husband for two years. shihata is her lawyer. the wife says he strongly believed in democracy and participated in the arab spring uprising. maha says he didn't have anything to do with extremism, let alone terrorism. she recently received a document from the government saying shihata is living over

brutality, which is one of the main factors in the 2011 uprising that ousted long-time president hosni mubarak. five years after that revolution it appears that the security forces are still to be feared. al jazeera. >> let's get more on this now. from the assistant professor of political science from long island university. shines us from new york. what is behind this move by el-sisi? >> well, look at what has happened over the last couple of case. it's not just the protest of killing of the taxi driver. there has been a series of death at the hands of police that has led to mass protest. of the doctors last week. this is very unsettling for the regime. as you recall the initial moment of the january 25th revolution was essentially against brutality because of the deat death of the civilian at the hands of police. >> although it does not reveal anything new perhaps by police abuses in egypt, was the murder and abduction of italian stude student. >> there was a lawed pass, and in the terrorism laws the police and military are immune from prosecution in performing their acts. if they're seen as

. >> apart from arab spring 2011, how similar is what we're seeing now to the 30 plus years of hosni mubarak and emergency rule? >> david at one particular moment it came in 2011 and 2012 there were great hopes and aspirations. many egyptians thought they would be able to take charge of their destiny and that basically a new dawn would emerge in egypt. the last three years as we know have been extremely contentious, extremely violent. thousands of egyptians have been killed as a result of clashes. and many union rights organizations, we trust their egypt when they sa--we trust their judgment when they say egypt today has not done much in terms of torture and clamp do down on dissidents. and on top of all that you have indigence, low-intense any insurgents not only in sinai but egypt. you have hundreds o those who have been killed. this has taken a heavy toll on the economy and on society. you look at 12% of the currency, it has been devastated as a result of tax on it in the last few months. >> is there any chance that he's not going to be in office forever, one man, but is there any chance

he has had the muslim brotherhood to the white house when they took over in egypt after hosni mubarak the egyptian people were not happy we meddled with the election and put the muslim brotherhood in power. look at what the president is doing, not just going to this, going to radicalized mosque, releasing prisoners from gitmo. rules of engagement for our military to fight jihadis. everything he is doing, point to the question whose side he is on? and they are wondering why he picked that mosque. harris: there is simultaneous thing andrea is talking about judge. bring you to something that happened on "america's newsroom" today, get your reaction. muslim reform movement and advocates and leaders are looking at some of the things andrea listed, wait a minute is that where the president wants to go and let us tell him why he shouldn't. watch. >> domestically he is cozying up to those who actually may preach against violence but they're preaching ideology that is on conveyor belt towards radicalism which is islammist. harris: he talking about the specific mosque. >> saudi jasser makes gre

, 2011 in cairo's tahrir square would soon cause the military-led ouster of longtime president hosni mubarak was the culmination of the so-called "18 days," and a highpoint of what became known as "the arab spring." in 2012, egyptians elected mohammed morsi of the muslim brotherhood president. the next year, he was deposed by the military and its top general, abdel fattah el-sisi. sisi was then elected president in 2014. it has been five years of upheaval and tumult. and today, the picture from cairo is much changed from those days of protest. special correspondent nick schifrin begins tonight our series of three reports, "five years on." >> reporter: take me back five years ago. >> all egyptians are happy! >> ( translated ): i cried. i was ecstatic. we laughed, jumped, hugged my colleagues, shouted. we did everything. >> reporter: how exciting was that time? >> reporter: five years later, the revolution's protagonists still revel in 18 days they call utopia. but today, the square that toppled a dictator is empty. there are no celebrations. and no protesters, because protests are illegal. >>

giulio regeni went missing on january 25, the fifth anniversary of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak. he had reportedly written about egyptian labor unions for an italian newspaper, using a pseudonym over safety concerns. his body showed signs of cigarette burns and head injuries associated with abuses by egyptian security forces. newly released emails show top officials in michigan governor rick snyder's office knew of a spike in legionnaires disease linked to flint's contaminated water long before governor snyder told the public. last month, snyder said he had only learned of the surge a couple of days prior. but emails released by progress michigan show snyder's office knew of the outbreak last march. nearly a year ago. the michigan democratic party has joined calls for snyder to resign. the water crisis began after an unelected emergency manager appointed by governor snyder switched flint's water to the corrosive flint river. in other news from michigan, a judge has sentenced former inkster police officer william melendez to at least 13 months and up to 10 years in prison for pum

but first, last week marked five years since longtime egyptian president hosni mubarak was removed from power after the so-called "18 days" of revolution. but the path forward has been tumultuous. our coverage of these "five years on" concludes with a conversation with a man who's often called the 'jon stewart of egypt.' jeffrey brown has our story. >> brown: as revolution swept through egypt in 2011, bassem yousef and several friends started a political satire show on youtube broadcast from his laundry room. nine episodes and 5 million views later, yousef was offered a weekly show on an egyptian television network. with his caustic witness and ironic takedowns he lampooned the government to have the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi and al-fattah se sisi. he received a press freedom aword by the committee to protect journalists. in the same year he was investigated and interrogated by the morsi government on charges of insulting the president. the military government that opposed morsi in a coup was no more friendly to yousef's brand of humor. his show canceled in 2014 and he left egy

. >> sreenivasan: five years ago today, egypt's longtime ruler hosni mubarak was removed from power, and he was soon jailed by egypt's judicial system. today he is held in a military hospital, charged with ordering the killings of protesters and awaiting retrial. the court system in egypt has played an essential role in the turbulent times that followed mubarak's ouster. the elected president after mubarak, mohamed morsi, who was deposed by the army, sits in prison today, sentenced to death. under current president abdel fattah el-sisi, the courts have jailed tens of thousands of opposition figures, he claims the decisions are out of his hands. tonight, special correspondent nick schifrin examines the role of the justice system in egyptian society, for our series, five years on. >> reporter: no egyptian family has fought for justice more tirelessly than the seifs. alaa abdel fattah is a symbol of the revolution, imprisoned by the current government. his sister mona seif leads campaigns against military trials of civilians. and last month sanaa seif was the only left-wing demonstrator

gadaffi and hosni mubarak, that that accused united states -- caused united states and others to rethinktrategies when it comes to peek like al-assad in syria? >> . >>> there is no doubts about it. when i had the privilege of working in the penitentiarygon, we had what we called the wineberger or powell doctorine before you use military force, you ask yourself: what is your real objective? are you prepared to do everything that's necessary to achieve that objective? and when will you know? this is, you know, particularly, when you don't have a core national interest or an existential threat and hopefully that's what we learned. i think president obama has applied that lesson very well in syria by staying out of the civil war. our main objective there is to deal with the threat that isil poses to the region. >> yet, there is the criticism that when the united states does not get involved, there are these vacuums and there are the situations like we saw earlier in that report where you have refugees, where you have people fleeing conflicts in places like syria being denies access and entry