{"id":2592,"date":"2014-06-14T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2014-06-14T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:44:43","slug":"egyptian-policeman-killed-in-islamist-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egyptian-policeman-killed-in-islamist-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian policeman killed in Islamist protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; A policeman was killed in one of several small Islamist protests that erupted across Egypt on Friday, days after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after demonstrations, was sworn in as president.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist protests, a daily occurrence in the immediate aftermath of Morsi&#8217;s fall last July, have become rare after a massive security crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested.<\/p>\n<p>One policeman in Cairo&#8217;s Maadi district was shot in the chest from atop a nearby building while he broke up a pro-Brotherhood protest of about 50 people, the interior ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook. He later died, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 Morsi supporters demonstrated in Cairo&#8217;s Haram district where security forces used tear gas to disperse them, security sources said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/egyptian-cop-killed-in-islamist-protest-1.1703433#.U5uvG7HpBSQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; A policeman was killed in one of several small Islamist protests that erupted across Egypt on Friday, days after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after demonstrations, was sworn in as president. Islamist protests, a daily occurrence in the immediate aftermath of Morsi&#8217;s fall last July, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,299],"tags":[489,258,256,341,4697,415,637,632,635,633,345,257,4694,636,631,340,254,634],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-north-africa","tag-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-haram-district","tag-islamist-protests","tag-maadi-district","tag-mohamed-morsi","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-pro-brotherhood-protest","tag-several-small-islamist-protests","tag-sisi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supporters-of-the-muslim-brotherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}