"Calls for an end to repression and injustice were what led to the '17 February revolution' in the first place, " she said.
When a convoy of scores of armed jeeps sporting the black flag signalling sympathy for al-Qaeda recently put on a show of strength in Benghazi's courthouse square, where Libya's revolution began in February last year, thousands of young people, summoned to oppose them by Facebook and text messages, poured into the square and forced them to leave.
Facebook and other networking tools played a prominent role in the revolution that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February.
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She is an arch-rival of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, who beat her to the presidency in February 2010, avenging his defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution.
See Juliana Pilon, "A Revolution Hijacked, " Uncaptive Minds, January-February 1990, pp. 36-38.
But on February 1st, he started a new job as CEO of Revolution Analytics, the company supporting, spreading, and enhancing R, the open-source statistics and predictive analytics programming language.
He emphasised there was "no return to rights abuses of citizens and their freedoms... after the January 25 revolution" - in reference to the popular uprising that toppled Mubarak in February 2011.
The Sons of Mubarak deny the former regime's involvement in violence directed against protesters during the revolution, particularly the now-infamous "Battle of the Camel" on February 2 when government loyalists rode camels and horses through the protest camp, leaving two dead.
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His health had been reported in decline since he was ousted as president of Egypt in February 2011 and found guilty of charges related to the killings of hundreds of anti-government demonstrators during the revolution.
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