CAIRO: Prominent Egyptian politician Ayman Nour prayed the Eid el-Fitr prayer in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square today. Nour, chairman of the liberal al-Ghad Party, also visited the graves of the martyrs of Egypt's January 25 Revolution and met with their families to express his condolences. Nour wished that the next Eid would coincide with the families' relief, hoping those responsible for their loves ones' deaths would be fairly punished. “Eid will not be complete so long as the martyrs' rights are unfulfilled,” he said. Eid el-Fitr, the three-day feast following the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, is the first major holiday in Egypt since the country's January uprising that overthrew 30-year President Hosni Mubarak. The real Eid will not come unless justice is served and the mothers who lost innocent sons finally receive relief, said Nour. Nour is expected to be in Alexandria tomorrow to spend the second day of the Eid el-Fitr holiday there. Nour told Youm7 that Eid after the revolution is different and Egyptians should celebrate their freedom to practice their political beliefs, which they obtained for themselves when they overthrew Mubarak's regime. Nour called on all of the country's political trends – liberal, Islamic, and leftist – to celebrate together in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt's January uprising.
