CHRISTIANS TO TAKE PART IN MASS ANTI-COUP DEMONSTRATIONS IN EGYPT
In a statement, Jan said: “We, the movement of Christians against the Coup, announce our intention to take part in the demonstrations on 6 October, which are aimed at condemning the military coup.”
The members of the movement will be distributed in several different places in order to cover as many marches as possible.”
The statement concluded with a phrase that shows the Muslim Brotherhood is not the only party affected by the coup; the Egyptian people are also affected.
“The story is not about the Muslim Brotherhood, but a whole nation that was abused,” it added, as Middle East Media reported quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
Hisham el-Batal, a political analyst from the restive Egyptian capital city of Cairo, has joined a Debate program to share his thoughts on the continued clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi protesters in the country.
“People think or see that the Egyptian police have been very wild like it was three years ago or even wilder and the Egyptian authorities or the coup authorities are practicing methodical violence against people, arresting people, even there were rumors yesterday that a very large number of army officers are being detained in the military prison for not supporting the coup”.
“One more thing, I think that those people, the protesters, pro-democracy protesters, are escalating against the coup authorities; in one very strange step yesterday they went into a rally to surround the American embassy in Cairo which I consider an unprecedented step. That will of course lead to escalating things in Egypt because people here in Egypt, a statistic today was issued saying that 63 percent of the Egyptians are against the coup,” he said. (T/P03/P04)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
