Egyptians protest against new constitutional declaration
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Thousands of Egyptian protestors flood to Cairo's center Tahrir square Friday to take part in demonstrations rejecting the new constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsi Thursday.
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| People attend a protest against Egypt's new constitutional declaration, at Cairo's Tahrir Square in Egypt, Nov. 23, 2012. Thousands of Egyptian protestors flood to Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday to take part in the rally of "anger and warning" against the new constitutional declaration. [Li Muzi/Xinhua] |
In a rally dubbed by the protestors as the rally of "anger and warning", demonstrators came from different parts in Cairo after the Friday prayer, headed by the April 6 movement, Revolutionary Youth Coalition and Kefaya movement, along with other liberal parties.
"Morsi's declaration expands the president's powers, and overcome the judiciary authorities," Ahmed Samir, 34, Revolutionary Youth Coalition coordinator told Xinhua.
The new constitutional declaration ruled that all laws, decrees and constitutional declarations issued by the president since coming to office on June 30, 2012 are final and unchallengeable by any body, while it will not lead to reinstate the People's Assembly.
Titling the president's decisions as "revolutionary," president spokesman Yasser Ali said there is no judicial body is entitled to dissolve the Shura Council (upper house) or the Constituent Assembly.
"I wonder how such decisions can be revolutionary, while it targets gripping the whole state, and undermining the freedoms," Mohamed Faway, 35, said to Xinhua, noting that the president wants to force the society to accept the Islamists dominated Constitutional Assembly, from which the Coptic church and most of liberals withdrew.
Meanwhile, the demonstrations swept other governorates like Alexandria, Suez and Ismaelia, where clashes erupted between pro and anti president's decisions. The clashes in Ismailia resulted in 50 persons injured.
On the other hand, there is a big rally before the Presidential al-Ethadeya palace, led by the Muslim Brotherhood members and other Islamists' groups, to express their support to the president 's decisions.
Cairo's downtown area was already occupied since November 19 by hundreds of protestors who was commemorating the last year clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud street. Tensions between the protestors expanded since the beginning of the commemorating rally, which left 169 people injured so far.
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