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Activists call for new protest at Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam

Activists called for protest Friday in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam to demand President Mohamed Morsy step down.

The campaign, known as Ikhwan Kazeboun or The Lying Brothers, made an open call to supporters on Thursday in a Facebook post. 
 
The statement added protesters plan to march to the headquarters holding Egyptian flags and chant anti-Brotherhood slogans after Friday prayers.
 
In response, Brotherhood spokesperson Ahmed Aref criticized the campaign, saying it has wrongly targeted the organization.
 
"There is an administration that runs the country and a Cabinet that are responsible for the country's situation," he said.
 
"We are not objecting to anyone's right to protest peacefully, on the condition they do not vandalize public and private facilities," Aref said. “We will not ask youth members to secure our headquarters in order to avoid clashes with opponents. The Interior Ministry is the body responsible for securing public and private facilities," he added.
 
Unnamed sources close to the The Freedom and Justice Party and Brotherhood said group leaders have ordered personnel to vacate headquarter premises as well as the removal of valuables after numerous recent attempts to break into their offices. 
 
The sources added that most of the party's headquarters that have been targeted are now empty after a recent attack on the group's Guidance Bureau in the capital Tuesday.
 
In related news, six other political movements called for a protest outside the prosecutor general’s office in downtown Cairo on Friday.
 
In a joint statement, they demanded the interior minister be dismissed due to his Brotherhood sympathies and for allowing citzens arrests, saying, "The Brotherhood seeks repressive rule through militias that substitute the Interior Ministry."
 
Meanwhile, several popular coalitions in Damietta prepared for what they dubbed the "Friday to support the army" demonstration as calls for a return to military rule continue to rise. 
 
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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