Egypt demonstration on June 30, 2013 attracted over a million people. Protesters are demanding the removal of the Morsi government., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Friday clashes in Egypt leave 30 dead, 1138 injured
Ahram Online, Saturday 6 Jul 2013
Amid huge, nationwide clashes between supporters of now-deposed president Morsi and opposition, 30 have died announces the health ministry
Friday’s clashes across 19 governorates have left 30 dead and 1138 injured, announces Egypt's health ministry.
The clashes erupted between supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who was fielded by the Muslim Brotherhood, against opponents and security forces.
Morsi's supporters staged nationwide protests against his removal from power on Wednesday evening. The protesters accuse the Armed Forces of staging a coup against an elected president and are, therefore, violating democratic legitimacy.
Protesters died in several cities and districts, including Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor, Al Arish and Ismailia.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75821.aspx
Friday clashes in Egypt leave 30 dead, 1138 injured
Ahram Online, Saturday 6 Jul 2013
Amid huge, nationwide clashes between supporters of now-deposed president Morsi and opposition, 30 have died announces the health ministry
Friday’s clashes across 19 governorates have left 30 dead and 1138 injured, announces Egypt's health ministry.
The clashes erupted between supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who was fielded by the Muslim Brotherhood, against opponents and security forces.
Morsi's supporters staged nationwide protests against his removal from power on Wednesday evening. The protesters accuse the Armed Forces of staging a coup against an elected president and are, therefore, violating democratic legitimacy.
Protesters died in several cities and districts, including Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor, Al Arish and Ismailia.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75821.aspx
Clashes resume outside Cairo, dozens of pro-Morsi protesters arrested
Ahram Online , Saturday 6 Jul 2013
Street battles continue in several Egyptian governorates following president's ouster by military; dozens of pro-Morsi demonstrators arrested by security forces
Violent clashes reignited on Saturday
afternoon between opponents and supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi – ousted earlier this week by the military – in several provincial towns outside Cairo.
Street battles erupted between rival factions in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor and the Nile Delta city of Damanhour, where gunfire has been reported, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website.
In Upper Egypt's Sohag, meanwhile, security forces – in coordination with the army – arrested 20 pro-Morsi demonstrators and Muslim Brotherhood members.
Those arrested were allegedly involved in clashes outside the local governor's office that continued until dawn, during which protesters reportedly attempted to storm the building.
Dozens of others were taken into custody after street fighting in Assiut, Kafr Al-Sheikh and Damanhour.
The men were accused of assaulting police and army personnel, inciting violence and illegal possession of firearms.
At least 30 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured Egypt-wide on Friday, as Islamists opposed to president Morsi's Wednesday ouster by the military took to the streets in the hundreds of thousands to voice fury at what they see as an illegal military coup.
Five police officers were shot down in separate incidents in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish.
Morsi was deposed by Egypt's armed forces on Wednesday following millions-strong protests on 30 June – which marked the end of the president's first year in office – to demand his ouster.
His departure was welcomed by anti-Morsi demonstrators who had demanded snap presidential polls, but infuriated Morsi's supporters who view the military intervention as a coup against democratic legitimacy.
Morsi was elected president one year ago in Egypt's first-ever free presidential poll.
The head of Egypt's High Constitutional Court was sworn in on Thursday as caretaker president.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75862.aspx
Egypt's Morsi, Brotherhood leaders to be interrogated for 'Jan 25 Revolution crimes'
El-Sayed Gamal Eddin , Saturday 6 Jul 2013
Egypt's prosecutors to interrogate deposed president Mohamed Morsi, along with top Brotherhood figures, over killing of protesters and attacks on prisons during 2011 uprising
Egypt's prosecutor-general orders the questioning of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, along with top Brotherhood members on suspicions of a range of crimes during Egypt's 2011 revolution.
A judicial source reveals to Ahram Online that the interrogations will be over charges of inciting violence, murdering police officers, hiring snipers to kill protesters, as well as torching headquarters of the then-ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
Specifically, the source details some of those that will be interrogated nationwide: the head of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party Saad El-Katatni, deputy head Essam El-Erian and other Brotherhood's top officials.
The Islamist group propelled Morsi to power last year after operating underground for decades until Mubarak was ousted.
Security forces mounted a crackdown against Islamists shortly after the army toppled the country's elected president following nationwide protests demanding his removal that really took off on 30 June.
President Morsi's whereabouts were not immediately announced. His supporters say he has been detained at defence ministry headquarters.
Brotherhood leaders will also be questioned on their alleged role in engineering attacks on police stations and prisons – with the help of members from Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, Palestinian group Hamas and Sinai Bedouins – during the 2011 revolution, after which the movement was catapulted into the centre of political stage.
In a roundup of top Islamists, the Brotherhood's second-man, Khairat El-Sahter, was taken into custody late on Friday on charges of inciting violence.
Widely regarded as the group's key political strategist, El-Shater was the latest of the Islamist group's known figures to be apprehended.
FJP leader, Saad El-Katatni and deputy head of the Islamist movement Rashad Bayoumi, were detained a day earlier.
Security forces also shut down three Islamist-led channels, including one owned by the Brotherhood; Egypt 25.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75868.aspx
Mansour in reconciliation efforts, Brotherhood leaders seek safe exit
Dina Ezzat, Saturday 6 Jul 2013
Sources suggest that Friday's strife in Cairo may be part of efforts on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood to secure a safe exit from prosecution or persecution for its leadership
Interim President Adly Mansour is holding consultations on reconciliation efforts aimed to end political polarisation in Egypt, a source who spoke recently with Mansour told Ahram Online.
“He is meeting tomorrow (Saturday) with representatives of political parties and forces with an eye on drafting a roadmap for political reconciliaition. Liberal and Islamist parties are expected to take part,” the source said.
According to the same source “an invitation has been extended“ to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood from which President Mohamed Morsi, who was removed Wednesday in the wake of a massive nationwide demonstrations, hails.
According to political sources, Mohamed Tousson, a leading FJP figure, is expected to be present at the meeting. “He was invited and he suggested he would come but we are not sure because other FJP members were supposed to attend previous meetings and they absented themselves,” said the source close to Mansour.
Minister of Defence Abdel Fattah El-Sisi invited the FJP leadership to a meeting of all political, civil and religious forces Wednesday, ahead of the announcement of the ouster of Morsi, but they did not show up despite earlier confirmations of participation.
On 30 June, nationwide demonstrations of over 17 million people, according to Ministry of Interior assessments, demanded an end to the presidency of Mohamed Morsi — Egypt's the first democratically-elected head of state.
Demonstrators had been threatening long sit-ins to force Morsi out of power. A meeting between the military leadership and representatives of political, civil and religious bodies ended in a decision that it was over for Morsi. For his part, Morsi refused to step down or accept the military's roadmap confirming his ouster, insisting that he is the "legitimate president of Egypt" and calling on his supporters to "defend legitimacy."
On Friday, three days after Morsi was removed from power, thousands of demonstrators gathered at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City and at the Heliopolis headquarters of the Presidential Guard where it is believed Morsi is being held.
At least 30 were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators, security forces and anti-Morsi protesters nationwide on Friday. In the afternoon confrontations occurred between pro and anti-Morsi demonstrators near Tahrir Square.
“The battle is in the offing and the Muslim Brotherhood leaders are now negotiating a deal by which they would be offered a safe exit — out of Egypt with no legal persecution,” said a highly informed source.
Addressing supporters in Nasr City Friday afternoon, following his release from temporary arrest, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie said that Brotherhood members would only leave their sit-in if Morsi is reinstated as president.
According to identical official and Muslim Brotherhood accounts, this is out of the question. “It will not happen and the Muslim Brotherhood leadership knows it, and this is why they started negotiating an exit,” said an official soruce.
According to a Muslim Brotherhood source, “We know that Morsi is not coming back and this is something that we know how and when to avenge."
The realisation by the Muslim Brotherhood leadership of the termination of their period in office came as Washington, a strong ally that tried to defend Morsi’s presidency, decided to give up on the Muslim Brotherhood when it declined to qualify the ouster of Morsi is a "coup." A statement by US Congress's Committee on the Foreign Affairs qualified Wednesday's events as “a popular impeachment,” thereby protecting US aid to Egypt against internal review.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75817.aspx
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