On the occasion of the 11th anniversary of the January 25th Revolution, the Arab Council expresses its deep pride in this great revolution, which set the Egyptian people on the path of change before the counter-revolution turned its course and brought the country back to conditions more miserable than those that the people revolted against in January 2011.

The Arab Council holds the coup regime and the local and regional architects of the counter-revolution fully responsible for betraying the hopes of the Egyptian people for stability and prosperity, and for the dreams of its youth for a life of freedom, dignity, and justice. It also holds them responsible for the deterioration of the living conditions of the Egyptian people, the worsening of the country’s economic crises, and the negligence of its sovereignty and water security. Additionally, the Council condemns their criminal role in sabotaging the democratic experiment, distorting the constitution, destroying sovereign institutions, stifling freedoms, causing the deaths of thousands of innocent people, and depriving tens of thousands of their freedom and basic human rights. The Council also does not forget the role played by the Egyptian regime in supporting the counter-revolution in Sudan and Tunisia, as well as its continued conspiracy against the Palestinian cause.

The Council calls on the intellectual elites, political, civil forces, and the youth of Egypt to unite their efforts to save Egypt from its path of deterioration and collapse, and to restore the spirit, principles, and dreams of January 25th, in tribute to the spirits of the martyrs, the sacrifices of the prisoners, and the slogans of the youth revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and across the other squares and neighborhoods of beloved Egypt.

On behalf of the Arab Council
President: Mohamed Moncef Marzouki