Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists, pillar of the protest alliance that brought down Morsi, now issue a statement opposing the military and its massacre of Morsi supporters.
Muslim Brotherhood supporters unleashed their rage on Coptic Christians, with several churches, homes, and Copt-owned businesses attacked throughout the country.
Two days before the bloody repression against Musilm Brotherhood protesters in Cairo, Egyptian army troops attacked striking steel workers in Suez governorate.
Egyptian militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed that a strike that killed four of its fighters in the Sinai peninsula was carried out by an Israeli drone.
Egypt banned Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman from entering the country for “security reasons”—to protest from the Muslim Brotherhood.
With Rabaa al-Adawia square occupied by Morsi supporters and Tahrir Square held by army supporters, dissident protesters launched a “Third Square” camp in Giza’s Sphinx Square.
Panama detained but quickly released an ex-CIA agent wanted for kidnapping in Italy. Cuban sources link him to the Contragate scandal; since 2005 he's been living in Honduras.
Egyptian authorities ordered the arrest of Mohammed Badie, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as nine other leading Islamists, in an escalation of the crackdown.
Egyptian blogger Ahmed Douma, who had been sentenced to six months in prison for insulting ousted president Mohammed Morsi, was ordered released by a Cairo court.
Troops fired on protesters in the Sinai, and militants retaliated with armed attacks on police. A new Salafist network, Ansar al-Sharia in Egypt, pledges to resist the new regime.
A new dictatorship could position the Muslim Brotherhood to recoup its losses—allowing it to pose once again as champion of the oppressed rather than oppressor.
Egyptian authorities shut down four Islamist-run TV stations viewed as sympathetic to ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The military also raided the offices of Al Jazeera.
