Anti-coup alliance calls for protests Friday

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy called for mass protests on Friday, saying it will launch a civil disobedience campaign on the same day to put an end to what they describe as a military coup and to achieve the revolution’s goals.

The alliance is expected to announce further developments in a press conference on Thursday, it said in a statement.

“The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy calls on the Egyptian people to rally on August 30 to retrieve its stolen revolution and restore its freedom in the biggest protests Egypt’s squares and streets have witnessed,” the statement read.

The Egyptian people refuse to be “enslaved” once again , the statement further read, despite the massacres committed against peaceful protesters. 

The alliance has vowed to continue peacefully protesting the forced dispersal of their sit-ins, the detention of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and the ouster of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

On August 16, mass protests organized by the alliance resulted in the deaths of over 130 people as clashes raged between protesters and security forces across the country. Twenty-eight marches called for by the alliance on Friday 23 saw a low turnout.