CAIRO, Egypt, July 08, 2013 (AFP)
CAIRO, Egypt, July 08, 2013 (AFP)
Key developments in Egypt since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
Wednesday July 3:
– Defence minister and army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousts Morsi and appoints a caretaker president.
– Sisi freezes the Islamist-drafted constitution and calls elections, without setting a date.
– Military police round up Morsi aides and Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
– Tens of thousands of Morsi opponents celebrate, while his supporters attack security buildings in the north. Seven people killed.
– “I am Egypt’s elected president,” Morsi says in a prerecorded speech, and asks Egyptians to defend his legitimacy.
– Morsi and his team put under house arrest.
– US President Barack Obama urges a quick return to elected civilian rule.
Thursday July 4:
– The son of a top Morsi aide says the deposed president has been detained at the defence ministry.
– State media reports arrest warrants issued for 300 Muslim Brotherhood officials.
– Chief justice Adly Mansour sworn in as interim president.
Friday July 5:
– Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie tells a pro-Morsi rally “millions” of protesters will stay mobilised until his return.
– Clashes nationwide, mostly in Cairo and Alexandria, kill 37 and injure more than 1,400.
– The African Union suspends Egypt, in line with its rules against unconstitutional government changes.
– Mansour orders the dissolution of the Islamist-led parliament, and names a new intelligence chief.
– In the Sinai, five police officers are shot dead in El-Arish and armed Islamists kill a soldier.
Saturday July 6:
– Gunmen kill a Coptic priest in the northern Sinai.
– Thousands of Brotherhood supporters rally in Cairo as the movement’s arrested leaders are interrogated.
– State media says Mansour has nominated Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as interim premier, but Mansour’s office later denies a final decision has been taken.
Sunday July 7:
– Hundreds of thousands rally across Egypt in support of Morsi’s ouster, with Islamists staging rival protests.
– Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the stand-off threatens to degenerate into civil war.
– Lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin reportedly named as possible premier after opposition to ElBaradei from the conservative Islamist Al-Nur Party which backed Morsi’s overthrow.
Monday July 7:
– Fifty-one Morsi loyalists killed and 435 wounded outside the Republican Guard headquarters.
– The Brotherhood says soldiers and police “massacred” its supporters during dawn prayers, and its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) calls for “an uprising” against the military.
– Al-Nur pulls out of talks on a new government in response.
– Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb of the Cairo-based Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s highest seat of learning, says he will “remain in seclusion” until the bloodshed ends.
– Prosecutors order the closure of the FJP headquarters, after police discover weapons they allege were to be used to attack Morsi opponents.
