You would expect al-Jazeera to be right up there with footage of the demonstrations on You Tube - it is not. THIS is what they are saying
Muslim
Brotherhood offices burning in Cairo
On
Sunday Protesters in Egypt destroyed and set on fire, to several
representative offices of the Islamist movement the Muslim
Brotherhood. Party offices were burning in El Mansoura and Tanta
north of Cairo.
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1
July, 2013
In
Tanta opponents of the president stormed the building of the
Islamists after the Muslim Brotherhood began to shoot at protesters.
Mass
rallies calling for the resignation of Egyptian President Mohammed
Mursi and early elections began on June 30 all across the country.
Cairo's
Tahrir Square is filled to capacity, just as it was two years ago,
when former president Hosni Mubarak was forced from power.
In
Alexandria, police mounted Egyptian flags on police vehicles in
solidarity with the protesters.
Many
police officers and officials have already announced their support
for the opposition.
In
the near future, representatives of the Presidt of Egypt will make
statements about the situation in the country.
"Millions"
of protesters took to the streets of Egypt on Sunday to demand the
resignation of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, a military source
said, citing army estimates.
"It
is the biggest protest in Egypt's history," the source told AFP
on condition of anonymity.
The
source said pro-Morsi protesters who gathered at a rival
demonstration in Cairo's Nasr City neighbourhood were estimated to
number around 25,000.
One
person was killed and more than two dozen injured in fighting on
Sunday between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed
Morsi in the Nile city of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, security sources
said.
It
was the first death reported on a day when hundreds of thousands of
opposition protesters took to the streets demanding that Morsi quit,
on the first anniversary of his inauguration.
Opponents
of President Mohammed Morsi have attempted to storm the headquarters
of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, the organization’s spokesman
has said.
Violence
had been widely anticipated ahead of Sunday’s multi-million
countrywide protests against the president on the anniversary of his
inauguration, demanding his resignation.
Around
150 "thugs" attacked the building in the Moqqattam
neighbourhood with molotov cocktails, birdshot and stones, said Gehad
al-Haddad, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Haddad
said the attackers were successfully repelled.
Egypt's
main opposition coalition on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of
protesters demanding the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi to stay on
the streets until their goals are achieved.
In
a statement entitled "Revolution Statement 1", they urged
"all the revolutionary forces and all citizens to maintain their
peaceful (rallies) in all the squares and streets and villages and
hamlets of the country... until the last of this dictatorial regime
falls."
Thousands
of Egyptians demanding the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president are
gathering at Cairo's central Tahrir Square at the start of a day of
massive, nationwide protests many fear could turn deadly.
Sunday
marks the first anniversary of President's Mohammed Morsi's
assumption of power as Egypt's first freely elected leader.
Thousands
of Morsi's supporters have staged a sit-in since Friday in an eastern
Cairo district not far from the presidential palace, the focus of
protests later on Sunday to demand his ouster.
Egyptian
protesters
joined hundreds already camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday
ahead of mass nationwide rallies to demand the resignation of
Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
Demonstrators
streamed into the square, where tents have been pitched and
anti-Morsi banners hung on walls.
In
Cairo's Nasr City neighbourhood, Morsi's supporters vowed to pursue a
sit-in to defend the legitimacy of the president, who assumed power
one year ago after Egypt's first free presidential elections.
Police
and troops have deployed to protect key buildings around the country,
security officials said.
The
health ministry said hospitals have been placed on high alert.
More
than 22 million people have signed a petition in Egypt demanding the
departure of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and a snap election,
the opposition Tamarod (Arabic for rebellion) group said on Saturday.
"Our
petition has gathered 22,134,465 signatures," Tamarod spokesman
Mahmud Badr told journalists on the eve of Sunday's first anniversary
of Morsi's inauguration when it has called for nationwide protests.
This
figure is higher than the number of people who voted for Morsi in
last year's presidential election -- 13.23 million, or 51.7 percent
of the ballots cast.
Previously,
Tamarod said 15 million people in Egypt had signed the petition
demanding that the president step aside.
Morsi
supporters have dismissed the petition as invalid, insisting that
only elections can decide whether a head of state stays or goes. His
term of office is due to end in 2016.
The
country was bracing on Saturday for the protests marking the first
anniversary of Morsi's term in office amid violence in which several
people have been killed, including a young American.
Opposition
protests have sparked counter-demonstrations by the Muslim
Brotherhood and its Islamist allies that have triggered often bloody
clashes across the country.
Morsi,
62, stands accused by his critics of failing the 2011 revolution that
brought him to power and of ignoring nearly half of the electorate of
around 50 million who did not vote for him last year.
Voice
of Russia, TASS, Reuters, RT, AFP, CBS
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