Protesters have taken to the streets of Cairo with demands on a range of issues from ending police brutality to raising the minimum wage. Activists organized protests over Facebook and Twitter. But while the city is galvanized by the recent events in nearby Tunisia, will this uprising enact change? The BBC’s Jon Leyne reports from Cairo on the protests.
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