Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Salafist leader and The Muslim Brother General Guide Mohamed Badie have been banned by the military junta which took power in Egypt. The coup took place on July 3, 2013., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Islamists Abu-Ismail, Badie banned from travel
El-Sayed Gamaledine, Thursday 4 Jul 2013
Ahram Online
Recently reinstated Mubarak-era prosecutor general adds new names to travel ban targeting leading Islamist figures
Prosecutor General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud imposed on Thursday travel bans on several Islamist figures, including former Salafist presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail. The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was also banned from leaving the country.
Travel bans were also imposed on the Muslim Brotherhood's second-man Khairat El-Shater, leading figures of the ultra-conservative Al-Gamaa Al-Islamyia Tarek El-Zomor and Assem Abdel-Maged, Freedom and Justice Party head Saad El-Katatni, and Brotherhood leaders Essam El-Erian, Hamdy Hassan, Abdel Monem Abdel Maksoud, and Saad El-Husseini. Pro-Brotherhood preacher Sawfat Hegazy, moderate Islamist Wasat Party head Aboul-Ela Madi, and pro-Brotherhood TV presenter Nour El-Din Haafez also received bans, among others.
Former president Mohamed Morsi, along with the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed El-Beltagy, Sobhy Saleh, Mahdy Akef, Mohamed El-Omda and Wasat Party's Essam Sultan were earlier announced to have been banned from leaving the country.
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Clashes erupt in Egypt's Zagazig between pro-, anti-Morsi protesters
Ahram Online and MENA, Thursday 4 Jul 2013
Police in Egypt's Sharqiya governorate use teargas to disperse demonstrations in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi
Clashes broke out on Thursday between supporters and opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in the city of Zagazig, the capital of Egypt's Sharqiya governorate.
Protests had erupted earlier in the day, with thousands of local residents taking to the streets to demand Morsi's reinstatement.
Police fired teargas at pro-Morsi demonstrators, but this did little to disperse the crowds, Ahram Online correspondent Adel El-Shaer reported.
According to state news agency MENA, police were eventually able to disperse the protesters.
Egypt's health ministry reported that 80 had been injured by rubber bullets, rocks, batons and bladed weapons.
Fearing an outbreak of looting, most local shop owners closed their places of business.
Eleven people were reportedly arrested and charged with incitement to violence following the clashes.
Egypt has been plagued by political violence in recent days between supporters and opponents of the former president, who was ousted by Egypt's military on Wednesday amid mass demonstrations.
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Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Badie arrested
Reuters, Ahram Online, Thursday 4 Jul 2013
Supreme guide of Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood Mohamed Badie is arrested Thursday in ongoing crackdown on Islamist movement following former president Mohamed Morsi's ouster
The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was arrested by security forces on Thursday in a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country's first democratically elected president, Egyptian state television has confirmed.
The Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, Badie was arrested in the northern city of Marsa Matrouh near the Libyan border, although security sources said they did not believe he had been trying to flee the country, according to Reuters.
The dramatic exit of President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday was greeted with delight by millions of people on the streets of Cairo and other cities, but there was simmering resentment among Morsi supporters and Egyptians opposed to military intervention.
An Islamist coalition led by the Brotherhood called on people across the nation to protest in a "Friday of Rejection" following weekly prayers, an early test of Morsi's ongoing support and how the military will deal with it.
Perhaps aware of the risk of a polarised society, the new interim leader, Judge Adli Mansour, used his inauguration to hold out an olive branch to the Brotherhood, Morsi's power base.
"The Muslim Brotherhood are part of this people and are invited to participate in building the nation as nobody will be excluded, and if they respond to the invitation they will be welcomed," he said.
Just before he spoke, the air force staged a series of flyovers in the smoggy skies over Cairo, a stark reminder of the military's role in the latest upheaval. The stunt, involving dozens of aircraft, was repeated at dusk.
A senior Brotherhood official said it would not work with "the usurper authorities." Another of its politicians said Morsi's overthrow would push other groups, though not his own, to violent resistance.
Morsi's removal after one year in office marked another twist in the turmoil that has gripped the Arab world's most populous nation in the two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
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Islamist gunmen attack Sinai airport: State tv
Reuters , Friday 5 Jul 2013
Islamist armed group attack Sinai Airport, reports Egypt's State TV
Islamist gunmen open fire on El Arish airport in Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula and at three military checkpoints early on Friday, state television reported.
The attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the army checkpoints outside the airport, close to the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel, in the latest of a string of security incidents in the lawless region, security sources said.
It was not clear whether the coordinated attack on several army positions was in response to the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo on Wednesday.
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Egypt's Salafist Nour Party trying to reinstate closed Islamist TV channels
Ahram Online, Thursday 4 Jul 2013
Salafist party says it's negotiating reinstatement of religious TV channels taken off air following former president Mohamed Morsi's Wednesday ouster, says party head
Egypt's Salafist Nour Party is currently negotiating with the relevant authorities in an effort to reinstate religious television channels taken off air following former president Mohamed Morsi's ouster on Wednesday, party head Younis Makhioun said in a Thursday statement.
As Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday evening announced Morsi's removal from office, a handful of Islamist channels – including the Muslim Brotherhood's Misr 25 and the Al-Hafez and Al-Nas TV channels – were abruptly taken off air.
Personnel working for the channels, meanwhile, were arrested.
The channels had sparked controversy in the past, with critics accusing them of employing "hate speech" against Christians, Shia-Muslims and secular opposition figures.
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