Wrecked vehicles were being removed from Tahrir Square on Monday<\/div>\n
The Associated Press news agency reports that the protesters are feeling the strain of camping out, night after night, in the square.
\nA misty winter drizzle on Saturday made mud of grass areas used to pitch tents.
\nFood is limited, and scores of the remaining protesters have suffered injuries, with bandaged heads, arms in slings, and crutches a common sight.
\nOmar Salim, who travelled to Cairo from the northern Sharqiya province and had spent the last four nights sleeping in the square, tried to put a brave face on the miserable conditions.
\n“The hunger spurs us on,” he told AP. “We’re in this together, we are all one – that’s what keeps us going.”
\nAhmed Mustafa, a 58-year-old plumber who said his 26-year-old son Islam had been shot dead in front of his eyes on Saturday, said his resolve to see the protest through to the end had only grown.
\n“This country has no freedom, no plurality of opinion,” he said. “What kind of country is it in which a young man of 26 isn’t able to marry, to make a family?”
\nMr Mustafa said he and his two other adult sons – Karim, 27, and Khaled, 24 – were also ready to pay with their lives to oust the Mubarak government.
\n“They’ve come to die like him and I’m ready to go, too,” he told AP.
\n‘Branded traitors’
\nHRW counted 297 victims of the violence, which saw fierce clashes with police, and pitched battles between protesters and Mubarak supporters.
\nIt said it based its count on visits to seven hospitals in the cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. No comprehensive death toll has been given by the Egyptian government.
\nWael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive who was behind a Facebook page credited with sparking the demonstrations, was freed on Monday after being detained for 11 days.
\nHe said he had not been ill-treated in custody but was shocked to be branded a traitor.
\n“Anyone with good intentions is the traitor because being evil is the norm,” he told a TV channel.
\n“If I was a traitor, I would have stayed in my villa in the Emirates and made good money and said, like others, ‘Let this country go to hell’. But we are not traitors.”
\nProtesters on Cairo’s central Tahrir Square have called for a new push to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, two weeks into their campaign.
\nThousands of people still occupy the square but their lines have been gradually pushed back by the army, keen to get traffic moving again.
\nTalks have achieved little and there is no sign of Mr Mubarak resigning now.
\nAs normal life resumes around them, the protesters risk sliding into irrelevance, a BBC correspondent says.
\nTo try to escalate the situation on the ground, in order to exert more pressure, would almost certainly risk colliding with the army, the one national institution that is widely respected, Jim Muir reports from Cairo.
\nThat is the dilemma now facing the protesters, made all the more acute by their fear that if they stand down now, they may face retribution from a vengeful establishment, our correspondent says.
\nOn Monday, the government announced a pay rise of 15% for public sector workers – some six million employees. Economic losses caused by the protests are estimated at $310m a day.
\nInspired by the success of a similar popular uprising in Tunisia, the protesters have sought to dislodge Mr Mubarak after 30 years in power, blaming him for the country’s economic problems and accusing his government of corruption and repression.
\nNearly 300 people have been killed across Egypt in the unrest which began on 25 January, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers.
\n‘Ready to die’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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