Saturday, July 6, 2013

Egyptian Army maintains custody of state television - Informador.com.mx

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MADRID, SPAIN (06/JUL/2013.) – The Egyptian military maintains a heavy guard on state television building after riots Cairo, that left only in the capital, a balance of seven dead, while in other cities the dead totaled 23.

Thousands of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who came out yesterday to the streets of major cities expressed their discomfort because television images showed no or reported the incidenttes occurred during the demonstrations.

Tahrir Square, the scene of battles staged Morsi supporters and opponents of the ousted leader, crowded Saturday dawned debris, while Islamist sympathizers fled the area.

armed forces fear that Islamists regroup and return to the square, in the center of Cairo, two years ago, was the place where it started popular revolution that prompted the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, who had 30 years in power.

A coalition of conservative Islamic groups led by the Muslim Brotherhood, known as the National League for the Defence of Legitimacy, has promised further demonstrations on Saturday, raising fears of renewed violence.

“The masses continue their civilized and peaceful protests in Cairo until the military coup is reversed and the legitimate president is restored,” said coalition in a statement distributed Saturday morning.

chaotic scenes that have occurred in the capital, especially on a bridge leading to Tahrir, ended only after the army was precipitated with vehicles shielded to separate the two warring parties.

Clashes broke out on the bridge known as “October 6″, which connects Tahrir Square and near the state television building, after the Brothers Muslims said they would not stop fighting until Morsi return to power.

However, detractors also Morsi, who maintained for weeks intense protests against the deposed president, backed by the powerful Egyptian army, they will not leave passing the return of the Islamists.

In a country increasingly divided, left at least 30 dead in clashes yesterday in all the North African country, while in the region of Sinai, where Islamist armed groups operate, there were also two or three elements of the military attacks.

Interim President, the senior judge Adly Mansur, took oath of office last Thursday, while a cabinet of technocrats rule Egypt until new parliamentary elections and presidential elections, although no date for the elections.

yesterday dissolved parliament Mansur provisional-the upper house of the legislature, which was overwhelmingly dominated by Islamists and allies Morsi, while appointed as head of Intelligence General, Rafaat Shehata.

indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood will not run the new military-backed leadership, and Morsi supporters argue that the military destroyed democracy in Egypt, through a coup against an elected president.

The “number two” of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to Khairat Shater, has been arrested in the neighborhood of Nasser City, east of Cairo, after that the prosecution issued a warrant for his arrest, state television reported.

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