Pressure mounts for release of Morsi as 10 die in Egypt clashes
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July 24, 2013, Wednesday
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PRESSURE grew yesterday on Egypt's new leaders to release Mohammed Morsi from detention as clashes between supporters and opponents of the deposed Islamist president left 10 people dead.
The clashes broke out on Monday and raged through the night, wounding dozens of people, a day after Morsi's family vowed to sue the military over his ousting.
The interior ministry warned yesterday it would deal with any lawlessness "firmly and decisively" while urging "everyone of all affiliations to maintain peaceful expressions of opinion" following the latest bloodshed.
At least six people were killed early yesterday when opponents of Morsi attacked supporters of the ousted president staging a sit-in near Cairo University, state media reported. In the Al-Nahda area near the university, at least 16 cars were torched.
Yesterday 1,000-2,000 pro-Morsi demonstrators remained in the square.
Some had surrounded a pool of blood from the night's clashes with stones, and put up a sign saying it was where a "martyr" fell during the violence.
Morsi's family said on Monday they would take legal action against the military for having "kidnapped" the elected president after he was deposed in a popularly backed coup on July 3.
Egypt's new leadership says Morsi is in a "safe" place for his own good.
Calls for his release have also been issued by the United States, Germany, the United Nations and the European Union.
"It is now of utmost importance that Egypt embarks on a transition, allowing a transfer of power to a civilian-led and democratically elected government," EU foreign ministers said on Monday.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement has vowed to sustain protests until Morsi's reinstatement and refuse to recognize the interim government installed by the military ahead of new elections early next year.
As violence flared, interim president Adly Mansour appealed in a speech delivered late on Monday for a "new page in the book of the history of the nation, without rancour, hatred and confrontation."
But Morsi's daughter Shaimaa Mohamed Morsi told reporters that the family would sue army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and also take legal action outside Egypt.
"We are taking local and international legal measures against Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the leader of the bloody military coup, and his putschist group," she said.
The clashes broke out on Monday and raged through the night, wounding dozens of people, a day after Morsi's family vowed to sue the military over his ousting.
The interior ministry warned yesterday it would deal with any lawlessness "firmly and decisively" while urging "everyone of all affiliations to maintain peaceful expressions of opinion" following the latest bloodshed.
At least six people were killed early yesterday when opponents of Morsi attacked supporters of the ousted president staging a sit-in near Cairo University, state media reported. In the Al-Nahda area near the university, at least 16 cars were torched.
Yesterday 1,000-2,000 pro-Morsi demonstrators remained in the square.
Some had surrounded a pool of blood from the night's clashes with stones, and put up a sign saying it was where a "martyr" fell during the violence.
Morsi's family said on Monday they would take legal action against the military for having "kidnapped" the elected president after he was deposed in a popularly backed coup on July 3.
Egypt's new leadership says Morsi is in a "safe" place for his own good.
Calls for his release have also been issued by the United States, Germany, the United Nations and the European Union.
"It is now of utmost importance that Egypt embarks on a transition, allowing a transfer of power to a civilian-led and democratically elected government," EU foreign ministers said on Monday.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement has vowed to sustain protests until Morsi's reinstatement and refuse to recognize the interim government installed by the military ahead of new elections early next year.
As violence flared, interim president Adly Mansour appealed in a speech delivered late on Monday for a "new page in the book of the history of the nation, without rancour, hatred and confrontation."
But Morsi's daughter Shaimaa Mohamed Morsi told reporters that the family would sue army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and also take legal action outside Egypt.
"We are taking local and international legal measures against Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the leader of the bloody military coup, and his putschist group," she said.
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