The 2011 Egyptian Protests

• Human Rights Watch said Egyptian police had escalated the use of force against largely peaceful demonstrations and called it "wholly unacceptable and disproportionate".
Solidarity protests
Protests were also held at the Eyptian embassy in Tunis in solidarity and in hope that the two countries' own "revolutions" could spark a chain of events around the Arab world. Tunisia's Progressive Democratic Party also said that Egypt had "called in the hour of change for an end to injustice and dictatorship. The Egyptian people supported the Tunisian people's revolution. Our heart is with you and our voices never cease to pray for victory." There was also a demonstrations outside Egypt's embassy in Doha, Qatar. There were also protests in Lebanon warning of the spread of the protests. In Syria a peaceful demonstration was held on 29 January in-front of the Egyptian embassy in Damascus to protest against the killing of protesters by the Egyptian police. Syrian security forces were deployed around the embassy and blocked demonstrators from reaching it.