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Egypts Brotherhood calls for protests, judges urge for strikes
Egypts Muslim Brotherhood called for protests across the country on Sunday to support President Mohammed Mursi, while the countrys judges urged for a nationwide strike against a decree they saw as granting Mursi new, extensive powers.
The Brotherhoods protest requests came as Egypts Judges Club, a body that represents judges throughout the country, called for the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations, after several hours of emergency talks in response to what they called Mursis ferocious attack on Egyptian justice.
On the ground, clashes erupted outside the High Court between supporters and opponents of Mursis new constitutional declaration while the Judges Club held an hours-long emergency meeting inside.
Some supporters of the declaration shot off fireworks at the gates of the court, and police fired teargas at protesters after they attempted to storm the building, reported Egypt Independent.
Protesters favoring the declaration started chanting the people demand the execution of Abdel Maguid, according to the newspaper, in reference to former Prosecutor General Mahmoud Abdel Meguid, who was sacked after Mursis new declaration and was attending the meeting inside.
During Saturdays meeting, defiant Egyptian judges demanded the president retract a decree granting himself sweeping powers that put him beyond judicial oversight.
As the judges met, civil groups led former U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, and former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi, Amr Mussa and Abdelmoneim Abul Futuh, said there could be no dialogue with Mursi until he rescinded the decree.
We refuse any dialogue with the president until he cancels the constitutional declaration, according to a joint statement read out at a news conference.
Several judicial bodies have condemned Mursis decree, with the Supreme Judicial Council, denouncing it as an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings....
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Egypts Brotherhood calls for protests, judges urge for strikes
Egypts Muslim Brotherhood called for protests across the country on Sunday to support President Mohammed Mursi, while the countrys judges urged for a nationwide strike against a decree they saw as granting Mursi new, extensive powers.
The Brotherhoods protest requests came as Egypts Judges Club, a body that represents judges throughout the country, called for the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations, after several hours of emergency talks in response to what they called Mursis ferocious attack on Egyptian justice.
On the ground, clashes erupted outside the High Court between supporters and opponents of Mursis new constitutional declaration while the Judges Club held an hours-long emergency meeting inside.
Some supporters of the declaration shot off fireworks at the gates of the court, and police fired teargas at protesters after they attempted to storm the building, reported Egypt Independent.
Protesters favoring the declaration started chanting the people demand the execution of Abdel Maguid, according to the newspaper, in reference to former Prosecutor General Mahmoud Abdel Meguid, who was sacked after Mursis new declaration and was attending the meeting inside.
During Saturdays meeting, defiant Egyptian judges demanded the president retract a decree granting himself sweeping powers that put him beyond judicial oversight.
As the judges met, civil groups led former U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, and former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi, Amr Mussa and Abdelmoneim Abul Futuh, said there could be no dialogue with Mursi until he rescinded the decree.
We refuse any dialogue with the president until he cancels the constitutional declaration, according to a joint statement read out at a news conference.
Several judicial bodies have condemned Mursis decree, with the Supreme Judicial Council, denouncing it as an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings....
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Egypt
DRUDGE REPORT 2013®
