Morsi Supporters Protest At US Consulate In Alexandria

Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi staged a demonstration in front of the US consulate in Alexandria late on Monday, a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman said.

“Our protest in front of the US consulate is aimed against the real leaders of the coup d’etat,” Anas El-Qadi, spokesman for the Brotherhood in Alexandria, told the Islamist group’s official website in the early hours of Tuesday.

The Brotherhood, the group from which Morsi hails, has rejected the popularly-backed military overthrow of the elected president on 3 July and has since been staging protests – while maintaining a mass sit-in in Cairo – to demand his reinstatement.

“We demand the expulsion of the US charge’ d’affairs in Alexandria and the US ambassador Ann Patterson after it has come clear to the Egyptian people that the US administration took part in plotting the coup,” El-Qadi added.

The protest comes on the same Under Secretary of State Willian Burns visited Cairo and praised the army for “responding to Egyptians’ will” during a meeting with Egypt’s defence minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi earlier on Monday.

El-Sisi announced the removal of Morsi and a transitional phase of at least six months  on 3 July following nationwide protests demanding the resignation of the Islamist president. Morsi’s whereabouts remain unknown but the army had said in an earlier statement that he was held “for his own safety.”

Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies have staged several mass marches around Cairo and a number of governorates to press for Morsi’s reinstatement. Violent clashes erupted during pro-Morsi demonstrations in the districts of Giza and Ramsis and continued into the early hours of Tuesday.

Source : Ahram