Egypt - Call for fully civilian government that respects basic freedoms

Reporters without borders

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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