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Egyptian courts stop work in act of protest
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November 29, 2012, Thursday
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EGYPT'S two highest appeals courts suspended their work yesterday to protest presidential decrees that gave the country's Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi nearly absolute powers, state television reported.
Judges of the Cassation Court decided in an emergency meeting they will not resume work until Morsi rescinds his decrees, said state TV. The country's lower appeals courts also decided yesterday to stop work.
The move followed a defiant statement by the Supreme Constitutional Court that rejected charges made by Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood that it is working to bring down his government.
The developments are likely to stoke the political turmoil triggered by Morsi when he issued a constitutional declaration on November 22 that placed him above oversight of any kind, including by the courts, and extended similar protection to parliament's lower chamber and a 100-member panel drafting a new constitution.
The constitutional court, which was not included in the suspension, is due to rule on Sunday on the legality of the two bodies, which are dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. A ruling, regardless of which way it goes, would constitute a direct challenge to Morsi, who took office in June as Egypt's first freely elected president but has enraged pro-democracy activists who claim he is acting like the authoritarian leader he replaced.
A strike by the appeals courts come a day after at least 200,000 people gathered at Cairo's Tahrir square to protest Morsi's decrees.
Judges of the Cassation Court decided in an emergency meeting they will not resume work until Morsi rescinds his decrees, said state TV. The country's lower appeals courts also decided yesterday to stop work.
The move followed a defiant statement by the Supreme Constitutional Court that rejected charges made by Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood that it is working to bring down his government.
The developments are likely to stoke the political turmoil triggered by Morsi when he issued a constitutional declaration on November 22 that placed him above oversight of any kind, including by the courts, and extended similar protection to parliament's lower chamber and a 100-member panel drafting a new constitution.
The constitutional court, which was not included in the suspension, is due to rule on Sunday on the legality of the two bodies, which are dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. A ruling, regardless of which way it goes, would constitute a direct challenge to Morsi, who took office in June as Egypt's first freely elected president but has enraged pro-democracy activists who claim he is acting like the authoritarian leader he replaced.
A strike by the appeals courts come a day after at least 200,000 people gathered at Cairo's Tahrir square to protest Morsi's decrees.
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