By Verona Roddick
Egyptian activists are planning to hold a day of strikes to commemorate the first anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak's ouster from the country.
The strike follows a host of protests urging the military rulers of the nation to hand over power to a civilian government.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which assumed the country's command after Mubarak stepped down from his position in February 2011, said that it would not "bow to threats, nor succumb to pressures" to speed up the transition to civilian rule.
Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday and marched to the defense ministry in the capital, Cairo.
The ruling military of Egypt have said that they would hold a presidential election by June to make the democratic transition to civilian rule. The military rulers also held a phased parliamentary election after which a new assembly was formed in January, which is dominated by Islamist parties.
