Egyptians protest removal of army oversight rules

ABOUT 50,000 mainly Islamist protesters flocked to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to press Egypt’s military rulers to transfer power to elected civilians after the cabinet launched a move to exempt the army from parliamentary oversight.

Egyptians protest removal of army oversight rules

The protesters chanted Islamic songs before Friday prayers while others handed out flyers demanding the constitutional proposal be withdrawn and that presidential elections be held no later than April 2012, instead of at year end or in 2013.

“Does the government want to humiliate the people? The people revolted against Mubarak and they will revolt against the constitution they want to impose on us!” a member of an orthodox Islamic Salafi group cried out.

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