About 1,000 people gathered on Sunday, many with their mouths covered by yellow stickers reading "Enough," to protest the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak might run for a fifth term or that his son, Gamal, might succeed him. Later Sunday, hundreds of security forces surrounded the offices of Kamal Khalil, a veteran activist who spoke out against the Mubaraks at the protest. The police stayed four hours but did not make any arrests. Hosni Mubarak, 76, has been president since 1981, when he replaced the assassinated Anwar Sadat. His current six-year term ends in October, and he has not said whether he will run again. Some participants said the largely silent action — held in front of Egypt's Supreme Judiciary Court — was the first purely anti-Mubarak protest since he came to power.
"Enough. No more extensions. No heredity. No succession. Please Don't Kill Us," read one of the banners held by the protesters, who were cordoned off and outnumbered by riot police and senior police officials.
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