• Egypt's cabinet orders police to end pro-Morsi sit-ins
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[img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/panels/13/jul/rabaa_protest/img/graphic_1374146547.jpg[/img] [i]A square near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque has become a protest camp for supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who was removed from office by the military on 3 July.[/i] [quote=BBC][b]Egypt's military-backed government has ordered police to end sit-ins by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the capital Cairo.[/b] "The cabinet has decided to take all measures necessary to confront these risks and put an end to them," an official said in a televised statement. The statement termed the continued rallies "a national security threat". Three top Muslim Brotherhood leaders have also been referred to court on charges of inciting violence. The movement's supporters have been staging sit-ins for several weeks since President Morsi was removed on 3 July, after just one year in office. They have defied previous threats of removal from their sit-in protests, despite deadly clashes with security forces. [b]'No longer acceptable'[/b] The main protest sit-in is at a square near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in the capital's north-east, where clashes erupted on Saturday in which some 70 people were killed, and in Nahda Square near the main campus of Cairo University. "The continuation of the dangerous situation in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, and consequent terrorism and road blockages are no longer acceptable given the threat to national security," Information Minister Dorreya Sharaf el-Din said in the televised statement. She said the police had been tasked to end the demonstrations "within the law and the constitution".[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23522642]Source[/url]
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