{"id":5127,"date":"2014-09-06T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2014-09-06T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:57:48","slug":"police-disperse-pro-brotherhood-protests-in-alexandria-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/police-disperse-pro-brotherhood-protests-in-alexandria-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Police disperse pro-Brotherhood protests in Alexandria, Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo, Egypt &#8211; Police forces dispersed pro-Muslim Brotherhood rallies in Alexandria and arrested 16 protesters after Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of Brotherhood supporters have organised six rallies east and west of Alexandria under the banner of &#8220;Revolution of the Poor&#8221;, originally scheduled for September 9, Aswat Masriya&#8217;s eyewitness said.<\/p>\n<p>The police arrested 16 protesters in possession of inciting publications and fireworks, state-run MENA agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy (NCSL) has called on its supporters to rally earlier on Friday under the banner of &#8220;Revolution until Victory&#8221; to demand retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Marches kicked off from Borg al-Arab city, followed by three others in Raml and Hadra of east Alexandria, Wardian and Minya al-Basal in the western region. The protesters chanted against the deteriorating economic situation and frequent power outages.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces secured vital institutions in Alexandria, and increased patrols in the streets to prevent the return of demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.aswatmasriya.com\/news\/view.aspx?id=abf9d4f7-5c46-4184-bee9-f71f080382bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo, Egypt &#8211; Police forces dispersed pro-Muslim Brotherhood rallies in Alexandria and arrested 16 protesters after Friday prayers. Tens of Brotherhood supporters have organised six rallies east and west of Alexandria under the banner of &#8220;Revolution of the Poor&#8221;, originally scheduled for September 9, Aswat Masriya&#8217;s eyewitness said. The police arrested 16 protesters in possession [&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],"tags":[258,256,2102,3900,3895,341,4697,415,3902,3897,3903,345,3894,3898,3899,257,4694,3901,3896,254],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alexandria","tag-borg-al-arab","tag-brotherhood-supporters","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hadra","tag-mena-agency","tag-minya-al-basal","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-muslim-brotherhood-rallies-in-alexandria","tag-national-coalition-for-supporting-legitimacy","tag-ncsl","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-raml","tag-revolution-of-the-poor","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/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=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}