Tahrir Square, One Year Later

The revolution is not complete, say thousands of Egyptians who've returned to where it all began.

Thousands of Egyptians have descended on Cairo's Tahrir Square today to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the 18-day uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. To honour the occasion, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling military coalition, announced a temporary lifting of the country's despised, decades-old emergency laws, although he also warned that they would be back in place soon. Tantawi also said that nearly 2,000 prisoners that had been tried in military courts would be released, although activists in Tahrir Square have intoned that those measures are not nearly enough to satisfy their demands for change. Some are even calling for Tantawi's execution. The protest also comes just days after full results of Egypt's first free elections were released, in which the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood garnered nearly half of all the seats in parliament. Another leading Islamist party, Al-Nour, took 121 of the parliament's 508 seats, but the Brotherhood has indicated it would prefer to form a coalition with more secular parties. As if to demonstrate the divide between Egypt's secular and Islamic spheres, protesters from both sides have coalesced at opposite ends of the square, according to Associated Press. For ongoing updates of what's happening in Tahrir Square today, we recommend, as always, to check out The Guardian's Middle East Live blog.