Reports: Egyptian Cabinet Members Submit Resignations

NPR | By Mark Memmott

Published November 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM EST

From NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and The Associated Press, both in Cairo:

State TV in Egypt is reporting that Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet have submitted their resignations to the nation's military council.

It isn't known, Soraya says, whether the interim government's resignations will be accepted.

That news comes, of course, after three days of protests and violent crackdowns on dissent in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

We'll add to this post as the story develops.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.

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