Join “Trafalgar to Tahrir” live cross this Saturday

This Saturday's demonstration in Trafalgar square (12 noon to 2pm) will feature a live video cross with protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a pioneering act of real time solidarity with the Egyptian people.

Thousands of people, from Amnesty International supporters, Egyptian activists, trade unionists, students and others will come together at a mass rally in Trafalgar Square in central London this Saturday (12 February) to mark a 'Global Day of Action' in solidarity with protestors in Egypt and the wider region who are demanding greater human rights.

The event is being billed as a 'Trafalgar to Tahrir' act of solidarity, with a large screen providing a TV link-up with protestors in Egypt's Tahrir Square, as well as social media activists tweeting and uploading solidarity images in real time.

Saturday's event - organised by Amnesty International and supported by the TUC, Unison, Unite, the ITUC, Human Rights Watch, the NUS, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists among others (full list here) - is part of a series of global solidarity demonstrations on 12 February being held in around 20 countries, including Australia, USA, Spain, France, South Korea and Norway.

In Trafalgar Square demonstrators wearing red, black or white clothing and face paint (the colours of the Egyptian flag) will assemble at 12 noon to hear speeches from Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty, ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow, TUC International spokesperson and UCU General Secretary, Sally Hunt, ITF General Secretary David Cockcroft, Bianca Jagger, CAABU Director Chris Doyle and young Egyptian activists, among others.

In recognition of the part played by social media activists in the protests, people who cannot be present at the event are being asked to upload solidarity images here. Some of these images will be displayed on the Trafalgar Square screen during the rally.

The event is being communicated on social media via the hashtag #feb12Global and will be live tweeted @amnestyuk

For more information about the Saturday's demonstration visit: www.amnesty.org.uk/egypt