Toppled in February after weeks of mounting protests, Mr Mubarak has spent the past two months in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The generals running Egypt during what they promise will be a swift transition to democracy have backed calls for the prosecution of former regime figureheads. Yet they had appeared reluctant to land the biggest fish of all. They shielded Mr Mubarak out of respect for his three decades of service as their commander-in-chief. But pressure from the public proved unrelenting. So on April 13th Egyptian police detained the country’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, as well as his two sons.
Adapted from The Economist
Vocabulary
toppled | overthrown; deposed |
mounting | growing; increasing |
resort | a place where a lot of people go on holiday/vacation |
transition | process of changing |
calls | requests; demands |
prosecution | trial |
figureheads | persons who held high positions in the country |
reluctant | hesitant; unwilling |
land | catch |
shielded | protected |
commander-in-chief | the officer who commands all the armed forces of a country |
unrelenting | relentless; unyielding |
detained | arrested; held in custody |
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