{"id":180,"date":"2014-12-25T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=180"},"modified":"2022-09-26T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T22:26:33","slug":"supporters-of-ousted-egyptian-president-morsi-held-anti-government-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/supporters-of-ousted-egyptian-president-morsi-held-anti-government-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Morsi held anti-government rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement have once again held anti-government demonstrations in Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The demonstrators gathered on Wednesday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and the city of Fayoum, calling&nbsp;for an end to the country\u2019s military rule.<\/p>\n<p>They also demanded that the government release all political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>University students have also been holding similar demonstrations across the country in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an Egyptian criminal court in the city of Asyut sentenced 40 of Morsi\u2019s supporters to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Morsi himself and tens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders are standing trial for what the military-backed court calls the destabilization of Egypt through collaborating with such groups as Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Lebanese movement Hezbollah and leaking confidential information to foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has witnessed regular protest rallies since the July 2013 ouster of Morsi, who was the country\u2019s first president democratically elected after the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The army has launched a crackdown on the supporters of Morsi, which has left over 1,400 people dead and 22,000 arrested. Some 200 people have also been sentenced to death in mass trials.<\/p>\n<p>SZH\/HJL\/KA&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2014\/12\/25\/391739\/egyptians-rally-in-support-of-morsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement have once again held anti-government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[355,78,356,5,29],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-egypt","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Egypt-Morsi.jpg?fit=626%2C389&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}