Security, armed forces brace themselves for Brotherhood marches

Security and armed forces cordoned off Ettehadiya Presidential Palace as well as the Constitutional Court in anticipation of marches by Muslim Brotherhood supporters headed there Sunday afternoon.

In what it dubbed the “Week of Departure,” the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy announced that marches will depart from different mosques across Cairo after afternoon prayers, heading to the Constitutional Court where the alliance will hold a press conference.

The alliance also announced in its statement that marches that will head to Roxy in Heliopolis.

Armored police vehicles as well as APCs have been deployed across Heliopolis and Maadi where the marches are expected to arrive.

Last Friday, clashes raged between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and security forces across the country, as protests were organized under the name of "the Friday of Wrath," two days following the forcible dispersal of sit-ins calling for the reinstatement of former President Mohamed Morsi.

The Cabinet placed the death toll from Friday’s nationwide clashes at 137, 95 of whom were killed in Cairo, and said that 1330 people were also injured across Egypt. Previously death tolls and injury rates were released by the Ministry of Health.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for week-long protests across the country, maintaining that its protests have been peaceful.