EGYPT: Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi stage rallies across Egypt as the country celebrates the 40th anniversary of its 1973 war with Israel

Record ID: 863135

  • Title: EGYPT: Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi stage rallies across Egypt as the country celebrates the 40th anniversary of its 1973 war with Israel
  • Date: 6th October 2013
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CELEBRATING 1973 WAR 'VICTORY' NEARBY
  • Embargoed: 21st October 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Egypt
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  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABZRU5M299BO52O4SS08D86XBE
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  • Story Text: Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi marched through Cairo on Sunday (October 6) towards Tahrir Square, where pro-army supporters gathered to celebrate the anniversary of an attack on Israeli forces in 1973.
    A member of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood was killed and at least two were wounded when marchers clashed with police in a town 300 km (190 miles) south of Cairo, security and medical sources said.
    Egyptian authorities had warned on Saturday (October 5) anyone who protested against the army during the October 6 ceremonies would be regarded an agent of foreign powers, not an activist.
    Clashes between Mursi supporters and police broke out in several cities, including Alexandria, Suez and Aswan.
    Thousands of members of the Brotherhood, which was recently banned, reached within five city blocks of Tahrir - the rallying point for protesters during the revolt that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
    Police fired tear gas to try and keep them away from the square, where people gathered for celebrations to commemorate an attack on Israeli forces during the 1973 war when Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal and brought down fortifications.
    Riot police also beat protesters who headed towards Tahrir, said a Reuters reporter at the scene.

    "I have come out today so we can begin to return to legitimacy, because myself and all of these people went out to vote and then al-Sisi [the head of the armed forces] came to rule us through a coup and said he wasn't bound by any elections, so we have come out to lift this oppression," Brotherhood supporter Mohamed Ghazi said.
    The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and most influential Islamist group, has demonstrated repeatedly against the army's overthrow of Mursi in July.
    By Sunday afternoon state television broadcast live footage from Tahrir Square and Alexandria showing crowds waving Egyptian flags and carrying photographs of army chief General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, the man who ousted Mursi.
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