Morsi Supporters Call for Million-Man March on Tuesday
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Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's supporters have called for a million-man march on Tuesday, despite warnings of decisive action by authorities.
"We call for a million person march under the banner of ‘Martyrs of the Coup' on Tuesday," said the Anti-Coup Alliance of Islamist Groups in a statement issued on Monday.
The groups organizing the pro-Morsi protests demanded that the demonstrators march on security administration buildings throughout Egypt to condemn the "criminal acts and the firing of live ammunition by the interior ministry at peaceful demonstrators."
Meanwhile, Wasat Party Leader Aboul-Ela Madi and deputy leader Essam Sultan were arrested on Monday morning.
Both men were arrested in Moqattam district of Cairo for encouraging people for violence during June 30 protests, and transferred to Tora Prison on the edge of Cairo, where ousted President Hosni Mubarak is also held, sources said.
Sultan and Madi were against coup, dictatorship and police state, they incited violence during the protests.
The call comes as Morsi's supporters continued their march on the military intelligence headquarters in Cairo amid a pending state of emergency by the army.
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Murad Ali said in the early hours of Monday that the demonstrators had set off from Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque in the north of the capital.
The army warned the Morsi supporters "not to come close to military facilities in general, and the headquarters of military intelligence specifically."
On Sunday, interim President Adli Mansour granted new emergency powers to Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi.
Egypt's National Defense council has warned that security forces will take "decisive action" if protesters "exceed their rights to peaceful, responsible expression of their opinions."
On another note, an Egyptian soldier was killed on Monday during a militant attack on an army camp in Sinai.
Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at Egyptian forces near Rafah, killing a soldier, Ma'an news agency reported.
Militants attacked eight other army checkpoints in the el-Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, injuring eight soldiers.
On Sunday, gunmen fired US-made ballistic shells at a security building in north Sinai, Egypt's Ministry of Interior said.
"Terrorists targeted the security directorate of north of Sinai from a long distance," the ministry said. Security sources detained three suspects in Sinai, after clashing with two of them.
Tension has intensified in Egypt since the head of Egypt's armed forces, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, announced on July 3 that Morsi was no longer in office. He also suspended the constitution and dissolved the parliament.
Source: Agencies, translated and edited by website team
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