As it happened: Egypt military ousts Morsi, Brotherhood rejects coup An Islamist coalition led by the Muslim Brotherhood appealed to Egyptians on Thursday to demonstrate across the nation in a Friday of Rejection against a military coup that ousted elected President Mohammed Morsi. The National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy calls on the Egyptian people to take to the streets and mobilise peacefully after Friday prayers to say No to military detentions, No to the military coup. The call was issued at a news conference Jordan 13 Flints at a mosque in suburban Cairo where Mursi supporters have staged a sit-in since last week. Troops with armoured vehicles have surrounded the area since Wednesday, when Morsi was toppled, but have not intervened to clear the protesters.
The Muslim Brotherhood in an official statement said that they reject the military coup that ousted Mohammed Morsi. Aj Jazeera quoted the Brotherhood as saying, We declare our unequivocal rejection of the military coup against President-elect and against the will of the nation, we refuse to participate in any process with the unligitimate power , we are against violent dealing with peaceful demonstrators. We call on demonstrators to show restraint and commit to peace and we reject the repressive practices of the police state including killings, arrests and restrictions on freedom of the media and the closure of the channels, the statement said. Tunisias ruling Islamists have condemned the military overthrow of Egypts Islamist president, calling it a flagrant coup. Tunisias Ennahda Party has its origins in the same Muslim Brotherhood whose government was ousted Wednesday in Egypt. Ennahda dominated elections held here after Tunisians ousted their dictator in January 2011 and kicked off pro-democracy uprisings elsewhere, including Egypt.
Tunisias ruling Islamists have condemned the military overthrow of Egypts Islamist president, calling it a flagrant coup. Tunisias Ennahda Party has its origins in the same Muslim Brotherhood whose government was ousted Wednesday in Egypt. Ennahda dominated elections held here after Tunisians ousted their dictator in January 2011 and kicked off pro-democracy uprisings elsewhere, including Egypt. A wary Israel maintained a studied silence on Thursday over the turmoil in Egypt following the ouster of the countrys first democratically-elected president Mohammed Morsi, describing the events as an internal matter of its Arab neighbour with which it has a peace treaty. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his cabinet ministers not to grant any interviews or express their own opinions in any public forum, so long as the regime in Cairo remains unstable. We are not relating at the moment to what is happening there, it is an Egyptian matter. We must worry about our own interests, and I am sure we are doing just that, Transport Minister Yisrael Katz told the Army Radio following news that Adli Mansour would be appointed interim President of Egypt.
Gulf Arab states welcomed Egypts interim leader on Thursday, hopeful his appointment would stem the rise of Islamists in the Middle East, but the military overthrow of an elected president drew a guarded response from Iran and condemnation from Turkey. The United States Jordan 7 Olympic expressed concern at the ouster of Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday and called for a swift return to democracy, as did the European Union. But they stopped short of calling it a coup, which might have led to sanctions. In the highest profile arrest since Morsis ouster, security officials said that Mohammed Badie, supreme leader of the Brotherhood, was arrested late on Wednesday in the Mediterranean coastal city of Marsa Matrouh, where he has been staying in a villa owned by a businessman with Brotherhood links. He was flown to Cairo on a military helicopter, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
He, and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater, are wanted for questioning on their role in the killing this week of eight protesters in clashes outside the Brotherhoods Cairo headquarters. Morsi himself, the Brotherhood veteran who a year ago became Egypts first freely elected president, has been held in an unknown location since the generals pushed him out Wednesday. Less than an hour after Mansour was sworn in, Egyptian prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the Brotherhoods top leader, Mohamed Badie, and his deputy, Khairat el-Shater, judicial and army sources told Reuters. Shater was the groups first choice candidate to run in last years presidential election. He was disqualified from the race due to past convictions.
Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood officials were also reported to have been arrested, with many senior leaders being held in the Torah prison in Cairo �C the same prison holding Hosni Mubarak, who was himself deposed in the 2011 revolution. Justice Adly Mansour is being sworn in as the new President of Egypt. Speaking ahead of the inauguration, a member of the constitutional court thanked the great Egyptian people who put its trust in the judges of the constitutional court. The Judges have agreed to lead the country in Jordan Son of Mars the name of the Egyptian people who have put its trust in the President of the constitutional court in order to lead, which will restore the powers of the judges, he said. Shortly after, Mansour was sworn in, to thunderous applause.
Speaking after taking the oath, Mansour said it was a great honour to lead the President and also praised the youth of Egypt. He also saluted the policemen who he said understood that their real place was to protect people within the ambits of the law. The new President also thanked the free media �C an ironic statement given the fact that the Egyptian army closed down several television channels after the coup, including one belonging to the Muslim brotherhood.
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