Government fact finding mission shows 846 killed in Egypt uprising - HA' Ha'aretz

At least 846 Egyptian revolution the nearly three week long died, the President Hosni Mubarak's decade-long regime overthrown and much regional turmoil inspired, a fact-finding mission announced government Tuesday.

Described in its report the jury Police demonstrators in the head and chest shoot with live ammunition and presents a death toll more than twice that of the previous official estimates.

Demonstrators in Tahrir square in Cairo. A formative moment in the history of Egypt and the entire region.

The fatal shots were due to fire bullets to the head and chest, to read the report, adding that a large number of eye injuries hospitals, filled with hundreds their eyes to lose.

The mission was confirmed, conclusions that policemen a U.S. Embassy commandeered a vehicle and used it, to demonstrators on 2 February, the same day horses and camels charged demonstrators in Tahrir square, the epicenter of the Egyptian protests running.

In a prison, Wadi el-Natroun, prisoners told the Commission that the prison protects cut water and electricity supplies, which suggests that the Administration that prisoners stage riots and escape forced.

Others testified that shot the guards in the air and tear gas to the prisoners to terrorise and force them to flee.

The fact finding mission comes a week after Egypt's Attorney General, a 15-day sentence for former President Hosni Mubarak announced to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse of authority.

The Egyptian President sons, Alaa and Gamal, were detained for investigation.
Mubarak, 82, was last week with heart problems as a result as investigations began his own role in corruption and repression of the protests, which eventually lead to his demise.

The former Egyptian President was deposed Feb. 11 after 18 days of the popular protests and is under house arrest since the last two months in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

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'First orbit' shows which Yuri saw

"The feeling of weightlessness was something unusual conditions compared to Earth." Here, feeling you as if you were in a horizontal position in belt. "You feel like you are exposed to." - Yuri Gagarin on it, the first man in space

April 1961 a Russian cosmonaut with the name Yuri Gagarin space history, when he first man blast off known was in the space on board a bell-shaped capsule as Voystok 1 made 12.

In 108 minutes, he circled the Earth on the Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Magellan, the Atlantic and Africa passed, before Voystok 1 of the Earth's atmosphere ended up and landed near the town of Engels, Russia.

Gagarin was a national hero overnight, and his untimely death seven years later during the pilot phase a MiG-15 fighter jet during a routine flight training was a national tragedy in the Soviet Union. But Gagarin's status as hero transcends now mother Russia: "Yuri's night" is a global Webcast firmly in his honour which takes place every year on April 12.

BIG PIC Gallery: Yuri's night 2010

And this year it's a special twist to honor the 50th anniversary of that historic flight. "Yuri's night" 2011 will feature the Weltpremiere--on YouTube, not weniger-- an experimental documentary first orbit, Chris Riley, Co-Director of called in the shadow of the moon. Undertaken in cooperation with the European Space Agency, was first orbit aboard the international space station ISS Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, imposed an accomplished area photographer and is a NASA astronaut.

See, while we audio Gagarin's response, as it from orbit, the cosmonauts viewing Earth took no video recording. Riley and Nespoli wanted to correct: Nespoli new carefully created the same view, the Gagarin, at the same time of day-as far as possible, would have had in any case.

Even better, Riley made the film free of charge, so he doesnt have to recoup costs. So all we can for the first performance, tune in as he his film will be given away "for the entire humanity." tune on YouTube, if the clock midnight at the international date line schl?gt-- or you can catch one of the many Rebroadcasts as "Yuri's night" at events all over the world is celebrated.

"First orbit" is now live:

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