Regional Marketing Manager for the Middle East by Google Wael persecuted, said that the revolution in Egypt, was accomplished through social networking site Facebook.

"The revolution has begun online. This revolution began in Facebook", - he said in an interview with U.S. television channel CNN.

Wael persecuted was one of the main organizers of the first protest, about which he informed them through the established community in Facebook.

Гоним, уроженец Каира, работал в дубайском офисе Google с 2008 года. Persecuted, a native of Cairo, he worked in the Dubai office of Google since 2008. Since the beginning of the riots in Egypt, the opposition-leaning executive at Google has decided to return home to personally support the protesters, but he was detained by Egyptian authorities and is in custody for 12 days.

Meanwhile, in a network through which heard appeals against the government, including hundreds of thousands of users. Subsequently, the authorities banned the Egyptians access to Facebook, microblogging Twitter, and later was totally disabled access to the Internet. Despite this Twitter and Facebook users have found workarounds for the continuation of electronic communication, unless access was not restored.

Responding to a question broadcaster which country the next will follow the example of Tunisia and Egypt, chased replied: "Ask Facebook".

"I've always said - added persecuted - that if you want to give freedom to people, just give them the Internet."

In Egypt, on Jan. 25 began anti-government protests grew into riots. Killed at least 300 people, about 5,000 were injured. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the largest Arab country by population in 1981, on Friday night after many days of mass protests, resigned, handing the reins of the Supreme Council of the armed forces. To overthrow the Mubarak regime Egyptians took 18 days.