Here are details of what happened to some other rulers who were toppled in the last 50 years as a result of mass street protests.

Georgia
In November 2003, opposition politicians seized parliament over rigged elections in what became known as the Rose Revolution. Veteran President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned and pro-Western Mikheil Saakashvili won a presidential election.

Kyrgyzstan
The 2005 parliamentary election was deemed flawed by international observers and triggered violent protests, also known as the Tulip revolution. These events culminated in the fall of President Askar Akayev after thousands of protesters stormed the main administration building in the capital Bishkek.

Opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev became acting president and prime minister and Akayev fled to Moscow. Bakiyev then won a landslide victory in a presidential election described as free and fair by Western monitors.

Five years later Bakiyev himself fled Kyrgyzstan after an April 7, 2010 uprising against the president, which left at least 85 people dead.

Philippines
In 1983, the assassination of strongman Ferdinand Marcos' arch rival senator Benigno Aquino on the tarmac of Manila's main airport triggered public uproar that forced him to call a snap election in 1986 to gain a fresh mandate.

 Massive cheating and violence in the 1986 elections resulted in the first "people power" revolt along Manila's main highway EDSA, ending Marcos' 20-year iron-fisted rule and restoring democracy in the southeast Asian country.

Romania
An anti-Communist uprising in the city of Timisoara launched East Europe's bloodiest revolution in late 1989. Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and wife Elena were ousted and executed. Ion Iliescu's National Salvation Front (NSF) seized power.

Sebia
Slobodan Milosevic was toppled in October 2000, still resisting the result of a presidential election, when huge protests erupted in Belgrade.

He was arrested six months later and transferred in 2001 to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he stubbornly conducted his own defence. He was still on trial at the time of his death in March 2006.

South Korea
After 12 years as the first president of modern-day South Korea, Syngman Rhee tried to manipulate elections in his final year of office in 1960. Protests erupted after Rhee's police fired into crowds demonstrating against the election fraud, killing more than 200 people, mostly students. Rhee was forced to step down and seek refuge in Hawaii.

Ukraine
People with orange banners spent weeks on the streets protesting against the results of the 2004 presidential election which gave Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich victory.

An election re-run was finally ordered by the Supreme Court, bringing President Viktor Yushchenko to power in January 2005. Yulia Tymoshenko was appointed premier of the "orange" government which soon became riven by infighting.