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In the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, hundreds of unidentified assailants threw stones and fire bombs at protesters rallying against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful political group. Mursi, who hails from the Brotherhood, was elected after longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in the 2011 popular uprising.
Mursi’s opponents say the elected president has continuously defied legal norms to force through his agenda and trampled on the judiciary’s independence in a bid to consolidate his power.
Separately, protesters and riot police clashed in the president’s home province of Sharqiya in the Nile River Delta. Police fired tear gas and exchanged stones with demonstrators tried to torch a Brotherhood office in the city of Zagazig, 50 miles north of the capital, Cairo.
In Cairo, hundreds of Egyptian protesters rallied in front of the office of the nation’s embattled Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah, part of a nationwide call to hold demonstrations against actions that Mursi has taken against the opposition.
The protesters, clapping and beating drums, sealed off Abdullah’s office with locks and chains and displayed a sign that read: “Leave. Enough.”
“We are here to say that we are not fearful, we are not hiding,” said Wageh Abdel-Salam, one of the demonstrators. “The revolution must continue.”
On Monday, Egypt’s prosecutor general issued arrest warrants for five of Egypt’s most prominent democracy advocates and activists over allegations that they instigated violence last week near the Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo. Nearly 200 people were injured in those violent clashes, which were among the worst in three months between anti-government protesters and supporters of the Brotherhood.
The violence was rooted in an incident a week earlier when members of the Brotherhood slapped a woman to the ground and beat up other activists who were spray-painting graffiti against the group outside its headquarters in an eastern district of Cairo.
Earlier this week, Morsi responded with speeches harshly criticizing his opponents and calling them thugs paid to derail democracy.
“No one in our neighborhood wants this nation to stand on its feet. I will cut off any finger that meddles in Egypt,” Mursi said, alluding to foreign interference in Egypt from other nations he did not identify. “I can see two or three fingers that are meddling inside.”
“There is an enemy outside Egypt and there is a devil inside that is maliciously messing with people’s minds,” Mursi told Egyptian expatriates in Qatar on Tuesday where he was attending an Arab League summit.
Among the protesters’ demands is the removal of Abdullah, the prosecutor general, whom they perceive as loyal to Mursi. A court has ruled that his appointment by Mursi in November was void.
Egypt’s leading pro-democracy advocate and top opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei lamented the state of affairs in the country in a message posted on Friday on his official Twitter account. “The circus of the constitutional declarations, constitutions and laws continues until the regime understands the meaning of law,” he wrote.
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