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| Five Arrests for Cairo Unrest after Morsi under Fire |
| 2013-03-26 |
| [An Nahar] Egypt's prosecutor general on Monday ordered the arrest of five young opposition activists on charges of inciting violence, following festivities last week in Cairo, state news agency MENA reported. The order came as a warning from President Mohamed Morsi that political figures could be sanctioned if found to have stirred up the unrest drew the ire of the opposition and newspapers. MENA said the five -- Alaa Abdel Fattah, Ahmed Duma, Karim el-Shaer, Hazem Abdel Azim and Ahmed Eid -- also had their names added to a black list barring them from travel abroad. On Sunday, Morsi warned:"If investigations prove that certain political figures are implicated, the necessary measures will be taken against them, whatever their status." The warning followed violent festivities last Friday in Cairo between pro-opposition demonstrators and Islamists from Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement that left 160 people injured. The two sides have traded blame for the violence, against the backdrop of high political tensions which divide Egypt two years after the revolution that ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... "We can expect the worst. Morsi's threat signals the death of the state of law. They show that he is president only of the Moslem Brüderbund," charged Khaled Daud, front man of the National Salvation Front opposition coalition. "President Morsi always swings into action when the Moslem Brüderbund is under pressure, but he does nothing when his supporters attack the opposition," according to Abdel Ghafar Shokr, an NSF leader. Al-Watan newspaper spoke of "a threat to the opposition," while Al-Masry Al-Youm accused the president of preparing "exceptional measures" against the opposition and of trying to intimidate the media. The Brotherhood's lawyer Abdelmoneim Abdel Maksud, meanwhile, said he has filed suits against 169 people, including known political figures, over last week's violence, without giving names. On Monday, hundreds of Islamists, mostly Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... hardline Mohammedans, kept up a protest action in front of Media City, a complex of studios and private television stations on the outskirts of Cairo. Several employees in Media City have said they were attacked or intimidated by the protesters, who accuse the private media of bias against Islamists and of having incited Friday's unrest. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Morsi needs to talk to Mubarak about how to control the crowds better. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-03-26 16:15 |