Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi is seeking near absolute powers thatcould potentially leadto a civil war, Egyptian Nobel PeacePrize winner Mohamed ElBaradei told Der Spiegel magazine Sunday. “Morsi’s power grab is even stronger thanpharaohs had, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak”, ElBaradei said.
“Morsi’s power grab is even stronger thanpharaohs had, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak”, ElBaradei said.
Egypt's Morsi confronted by National Rescue Front
Egyptian liberal parties and groups announced on Saturday the creationof a National Salvation Front uniting the opposition to president Morsi and coordinating its further actions. The Front’s major goal is to defeat the new constitutional declaration announced by Mr Morsi and granting him broader powers.
The new Front includes the Former Arab League head Amr Moussa and his Egyptian Conference Party, a popular Nasserist figure and founder of Al-KaramaParty, Hamdeen Sabahi, as well as former IAEA-chief Mohammed El Baradei.
The Front may also be joined by one of the former leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.
Egypt judges call for nationwide strike
Egypt's judges have called for a nationwide strike in protest against a decree by President Mohammed Morsi granting himself extensive new powers.After an emergency meeting, the supreme judicial council urged the President to retract the decree they see as an ‘unprecedentedattack’ on the judiciary.
The announcement by the top judges came after thousandsof Egyptians took to the streets on Friday to protest against Morsi's decree, whichgives the president near-absolute power and immunity from appeals in courts for any decisions or laws he declares until a new constitution andparliament is in place.
In Cairo there were violent clashes between supporters of the judges and riotpolice.
Egypt's top judges suspend courts
In Egypt, the supreme judicial council has suspended all court offices until the constitutional decree passed by President Mohamed Morsi earlier this week wasreversed.
The Council condemned the president’s decision granting him sweeping new powers as an ‘unprecedented assault’ on the independence of the judiciary.
The announcement by the top judges came after thousandsof Egyptians took to the streets on Friday to protest against Morsi's decree, whichgives the president near-absolute power and immunity from appeals in courts for any decisions or laws he declares until a new constitution andparliament is in place.
Alexandria judges strike over Egyptian president's decree
Judges in the Egyptian city of Alexandria decided to go on strike on Saturday in protest at a decree issued by President Mohamed Morsi which shields his decisions from judicial review, the state news agency reported.
The judges' club in Alexandria said work would be suspended in all courts and prosecution offices until the decree was reversed, the agency reported.
Egypt's judicial authority condemns sweeping powers for Morsi
Egypt's highest judicial authority said a decree granting President Mohamed Morsi sweeping new powers marked an ‘unprecedented attack’ on the independence of the judiciary.
At an emergency meeting called to discuss the decree issued by Morsi on Thursday, the Supreme Judicial Council urged ‘the president of the republic to distance this decree from everything that violates the judicial authority’.
The new constitutional declaration is ‘an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings’, the SupremeJudicial Council said in a statement after an emergency meeting.
Egypt unrest: anti-Morsi protesters flee 'tear gas'
Crowds of anti-government protesters dispersed from Cairo's Tahrir square overnight after apparently being targeted with tear gas.
Hundreds of people had launched a sit-in late on Friday and vowed to stay for a week - by morning few remained, though fresh protestsare planned.
More than 100 people have been injured in clashes across Egypt after President Mohammed Morsi passed a decree giving himself almostunchecked power.
Morsi’s advisers resign to protest his constitutional declaration
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi’s advisers are tendering their resignations to protest against his constitutional declaration.
One of them is Morsi’s assistant for democratic transitionSamir Morcos.
President Morsi madepublic Thursday his constitutional declaration wherein he granted himself sweeping legislative powers, while depriving the judiciary of their supervisory functionswith regard to the upper house of parliament and the commission drafting Egypt’s new constitution.
The country’s democratic forces have flatly rejected the declaration, describing it as a coup. Morsi’s opponents have launched an indefinite protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Egypt's Morsi defendsnew powers as protesters storm HQ
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi defended his move to give himself sweeping new powers. He spoke after thousands of anti-government protesters have clashed with his supporters in cities across the country, burning several offices of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei has accusedMr Morsi of acting like a ‘new pharaoh’.