EGYPT: Protests go on into the night in Egypt's Tahrir Square in continuation of mass protest nation-wide in Egypt

Record ID: 859938

  • Title: EGYPT: Protests go on into the night in Egypt's Tahrir Square in continuation of mass protest nation-wide in Egypt
  • Date: 1st July 2013
  • Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (JULY 1, 2013) (REUTERS) TENTS IN TAHRIR SQUARE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WAVING FLAGS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) OPPOSITION PROTESTER MOHAMED ALI, SAYING: "God willing, with the peaceful protest and the sit in by the people all over Egypt's provinces, we will force Mursi and the Brotherhood to leave the presidency." PROTESTERS WAVING POSTERS READING IN ARABIC "LEAVE" PROTESTERS WAVING EGYPTIAN FLAGS PROTESTERS BURNING PICTURES OF MURSI (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) OPPOSITION PROTESTER AHMED FIKRY, SAYING: "We know that Mursi is backed by the US. And the US want this country [Egypt] to stay like this; but the people's will won't let it. For the first time we see that Egypt needs every single one of its people because it is one of two things: either we go after the plan they [USA] put for us of keeping Mursi so this country can fall, or for us to not allow this country to fall." PROTESTERS WAVING POSTERS READING IN ARABIC "LEAVE" PROTESTERS HOLDING POSTERS AND EGYPTIAN FLAGS
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Egypt
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  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Politics
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  • Story Text: Egyptians who had flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration to demand that he resign continued their protest overnight into the early hours of Monday (July 1) Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed in and around Cairo's central Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.

    "God willing, with the peaceful protest and the sit in by the people all over Egypt's provinces, we will force Mursi and the Brotherhood to leave the presidency," said one opposition protester Mohamed Ali Huge protest rallies continued late into the night in a mostly festive atmosphere.
    While the main protests were peaceful, five people were shot dead in clashes in the Nile valley towns of Assiut and Beni Suef and the oasis town of Fayoum. The Health Ministry said more than 200 were injured in clashes in several provincial towns.
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