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Police disperse anti-Sisi rally at Azhar dorm

June 6, 2014 at 2:48 pm

Egyptian security forces used teargas to disperse a rally held by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi inside the Al-Azhar University dormitory in eastern Cairo today.

“Police forces stormed the dormitory and used teargas and buckshot to disperse the students protesting against the inauguration of [former army chief] Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi as Egypt’s president,” an eyewitness told the Anadolu news agency.

Moaz Mohamed, a member of the Students against the Coup group, confirmed that security forces had stormed the dormitory to disperse the student rally.

The rally was part of protests called by the pro-Morsi National Alliance for the Defence of Legitimacy against the inauguration of Al-Sisi, who led the army to oust democratically elected Morsi last July.

Al-Sisi was declared the winner of last week’s Egyptian presidential election in which he clinched almost 97 per cent of the vote, according to Egypt’s election commission.

Egypt’s army-installed interim presidency invited 22 countries, 16 of whom have already confirmed their attendance, to Sunday’s inauguration ceremony in Cairo, according to a well-placed source.

While supporters describe Morsi’s ouster as a “military coup”, opponents term it a “military-backed revolution”.