Egypt - Call for fully civilian government that respects basic freedoms

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After six days of demonstrations, President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the armed forces last night in what was a military coup with civilian trappings. In a televised address after the coup, armed forces chief of staff Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was flanked by opposition leader Mohamed El-Baradei and Egypt's two leading clerics, Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb of Al-Azhar, the country's leading Sunni authority, and the head of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II. President for a year and four (...)

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