Egypt

Coordinator for post-Ramadan protest says rally not against Brotherhood

The Facebook page calling for a mass protest on 24 August said it has nothing to do with a protest called for by former MPs Mostafa Bakry and Mohamed Abou Hamed and media figure Tawfiq Okasha to bring down President Mohamed Morsy and disband the Muslim Brotherhood.

The page said the 24 August protest is intended to protest Morsy's sluggish implementation of his election platform.

Ayman Yacoub, the coordinator for the protest and the page's administrator, said he is coordinating with a number of revolutionary movements to explain that their protest is different from the one called for by Okasha, Abou Hamed and Bakry.

He added that the revolution's activists will stage their protest in Tahrir and a number of Egypt's squares while the other protest will be staged before of the Unknown Soldier Monument in Nasr City.

Yacoub added that the revolutionary youth are opposed to sabotaging the Brotherhood's headquarters and that their protest will be a peaceful one.

"We were not opposed to the president from the outset. We understand that he cannot solve all crises in that short period, but the problem is that he has not undertaken any positive procedures until now and the country is moving from bad to worse."

On Tuesday, 13 revolutionary and youth movements announced their rejection of the protest called for by Okasha, Bakry and Abou Hamed. They said Morsy has to be given 100 days to begin the implementation of his platform.

Kefaya, the Union of Revolutionary Youth and the Ahmed Maher, of the April 6 Youth Movement, have all said they will not take part in the protest.

Mohamed Fayyad, coordinator of the I am Egyptian Front, said: “It is impossible for us to participate in that protest because it has enemies of the revolution.  Most revolutionary movements, if not all of them, reject participation in that protest.”

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