Egyptian police mounted a huge show of force in central Cairo and closed off ent...
CAIRO - Egyptian police mounted a huge show of force in central Cairo and closed off entrances to Tahrir Square on Friday after calls for protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following opposition accusations of corruption, which he denies.
Sisi, who was in New York this week attending the U.N. General Assembly, returned to Cairo on Friday morning, where he was greeted off his plane by senior ministers and later stopped to speak to a crowd of supporters on the roadside. “This is an image being painted as was done before, comprised of lies and defamation and some media working to present an image that isn’t true. We’re really strong, the country is really strong with you,” he said in a video posted on his official Facebook page.
In a Friday sermon broadcast on national TV, Egypt’s minister of religious endowments accused “paid agents” of undermining the nation. At Cairo’s Al-Fateh mosque, a starting point for protests in 2011, dozens of police, some in uniform and others in plain clothes with masks and large guns, stood near the exit as prayers finished.Sisi came to power after leading the overthrow of Islamist former President Mohamed Mursi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, in 2013 after mass protests against Mursi’s rule.
The International Commission of Jurists, a Geneva-based group that works to uphold the rule of law worldwide, called for the release of those “detained for exercising their fundamental freedoms”.Under Sisi, Egypt has undertaken a series of economic reforms backed by the International Monetary Fund which have won praise from economists but also increased pressure on many ordinary Egyptians, denting the president’s popularity.
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