The supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi say they will hold a “march of the millions” on Friday.
“The national alliance supporting legitimacy and defying the coup calls upon all the free people of the world to demonstrate peacefully in (an) ‘Egypt against the coup’ march of the millions,” a coalition of Morsi supporters said in a Thursday statement.

They also called on “all honorable military and police forces not to direct their bullets at their brothers and sisters of the Egyptian people.”

The statement came after supporters of Morsi defied a government order for the removal of protest camps in Cairo and continued their sit-ins in the capital.

On Wednesday, Egypt’s interim government declared Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-ins in Cairo as a threat to “national security,” saying it would “take all necessary measures” to put an end to the mass protests.

“The cabinet has decided at its meeting today to start taking all necessary measures to deal with perils related to sit-ins and to authorize the interior minister to take all what is necessary to end the sit-ins of Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda in accordance with law and the constitution,” the interim government said in a statement.

“The continuation of the dangerous situation in Rabaa al-Adawiya [Mosque] and Nahda Square… and road blockages are no longer acceptable given the threat to national security,” the statement added.

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad said after the statement that “nothing will change” and that the protests will go on.

Tension has intensified in Egypt since the head of the Egyptian armed forces, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, announced on July 3 that Morsi was no longer in office. Sisi also suspended the constitution and dissolved the parliament.

On July 27, at least 150 people were killed and scores of others injured in clashes during rival demonstrations by the supporters and opponents of Morsi across the country.

By Press TV

 

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