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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Egypt protests and military shield over Cairo

Egypt will be this Sunday setting for new mass rallies of supporters and opponents of the ousted president Mohamed Mursi , particularly in Cairo,  where the armed forces were deployed to try to prevent further clashesIn a high-stress environment marked by violence that left 37 dead in 24 hours , the movement Tamarod (rebellion in Arabic), driver of giant demonstrations that led to the dismissal of Mursi, a new movement called Sunday. Groups of protesters anti-Mursi camping every night in Tahrir Square have joined others in anticipation of this Sunday's marches. In the opposite camp, the powerful brotherhood of the Muslim Brotherhood called on supporters to mobilize "for millions" against the "police state" established after the"military coup"The Islamists vowed to stay in the streets until the return of Mursi, first democratically elected president, and whose dismissal "never existed" according to a fatwa of the influential preacher Yusuf al Qaradui, mentor of the Muslim Brotherhood.  On the other hand, President Barack Obama "reiterated that the United States is not aligned or support any political party or particular Egyptian group" , reported Saturday the White House said in a statement. In this context of tension, the interim civilian president, Adly Mansur held talks with General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, head of the Armed Forces and new strongman. After overthrowing the Islamist president arguing that it could not resolve the political crisis, the military and the new authorities launched a campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood who had come to power with the election of Mursi after 30-year ban under the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Mursi, accused by his detractors to seize power, is arrested by the military and the Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie is accused, like eight other leaders of the brotherhood, of "incitement to murder" . The second of the brotherhood, to Khairat Shater, was arrested.

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