Calls for protests started late on Saturday from opponents and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, shortly after the president’s decision to annul a controversial decree. Egypt’s opposition called for street protests to continue on Sunday against Mursi until he drops a referendum on a new draft constitution. “We call on Egyptian youth
Jews in Hevron are facing the prospect of another expulsion after the State Prosecution adopted a former senior prosecutor’s opinion in favor of evicting Israeli Jews from Beit Ezra. Beit Ezra is a Jewish owned building in Hevron that was abandoned in 1947 when Jews were forced from the city, but was restored to
Some protesters in Egypt removed on Friday evening the barbed wire and barriers leading to the presidential palace in Cairo. According to a report on the website of the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm, the guards formed a human chain to block protesters from reaching the palace. A number of marches had arrived in
The National Salvation Front in Egypt, a recently created umbrella group comprised of opposition groups, issued a statement on Thursday in which it said that the "authority" had lost its legitimacy and called for mass protests on Friday. According to a report on the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram daily, the statement follows deadly
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday annulled a constitutional declaration he issued last month expanding his powers, but the effects of that declaration would stand, an official told a Cairo news conference. A referendum on a draft constitution would however still go ahead as planned on Dec.15, the official, Islamist politician Selim al-Awa, said
Generals in Egypt are back on the media spotlight with speculations that the country’s most powerful men may once again step in the political crisis and push the president aside to claim the reigns. In a replay of the Jan. 25 revolution, protesters on Saturday mounted military tanks in Cairo calling on President Mohammed
Egypt’s National Salvation Front (NSF) rejected dialogue with President Mohammed Mursi and called on people to continue protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square until a controversial constitutional declaration is withdrawn. The opposition movement, of major liberal democratic parties and movements, also called on President Mursi to disband what it said were “armed militias” of the
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi said on Thursday he will not tolerate killings or sabotage but will respect free speech, AFP reported. The comments were made in a live address to the nation after bloody clashes broke out between Morsi’s supporters and opponents. "We respect peaceful freedom of speech but will never allow anyone
Egyptian security forces deployed at least five tanks outside the presidential palace in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi had been clashing into the early hours of the morning, witnesses told Al Jazeera Thursday. "The Republican Guard began a deployment around the headquarters of the presidency ... to secure the
A powerful figure of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood vowed on Saturday that his movement was “prepared” to protect the “legitimacy” of President Mohammed Mursi and called for the constitutional referendum to go ahead as planned on Dec. 15. Businessman Khairat el-Shater, who was the primary candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood in the presidential elections before
