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\"jamait\"<\/a>A coalition of South African advocacy and social groups plan to demonstrate against the military coup in Egypt at the Egyptian Embassy in Pretoria on Friday.<\/p>\n

The group calling itself the Coalition for Egyptian Democracy is made up of the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa, ANC Youth League, South African Municipal Workers Union\u00a0 , Muslim Youth Movement (MYM), Coalition For a Free Palestine (South Africa), MSA Union , Awqaf SA, and Media Review Network – South Africa.<\/p>\n

The coalitions, Minhaj Jeenah says that they “joins democrats around the world in calling for a return to democracy in Egypt.”<\/p>\n

They also demanding the de facto rulers of Egypt, the military, to end the crackdown on its people and a transparent international judicial investigate to prosecute those responsible for the killing of civilians since 30th June.<\/p>\n

Jeenah says they condemn the 3rd July military coup which saw President Mohamed Morsi ousted and detained.<\/p>\n

An Egyptian court has ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak. Security sources say he will leave prison later in the day as there are no longer any legal grounds for his detention.<\/p>\n

The 85-year old Mubarak was being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall. Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators.<\/p>\n

Last week, hundreds of Cape Townians handed over a memorandum to a member of the Committee for International Relations, condemning what they called “illegitimate military rulers who are trying to silence the voices of peaceful protesters in Egypt”.<\/p>\n

Jeenah says they are also calling on the military to open the Rafah border post with Gaza and to cease its destruction of the tunnels that connect Egypt to Gaza. The tunnels are a vital lifeline for the people of Gaza who are under an Israeli-imposed siege since 2007.<\/p>\n

The coalition also commended South African government on their position taken towards the coup. However Jeenah says, they calling on government to follow the actions of Venezuela, Ecuador and Turkey and withdraw the ambassador from Cairo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coalition of South African advocacy and social groups plan to demonstrate against the military coup in Egypt at the Egyptian Embassy in Pretoria on Friday. The group calling itself the Coalition for Egyptian Democracy is made up of the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa, ANC Youth League, South African Municipal Workers Union\u00a0 , Muslim Youth … Continue reading “Broad coalition demand democracy in Egypt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[432,5590,5589,5587,5583,190,5584,5588,5586,5585],"class_list":["post-9716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc-youth-league","tag-and-media-review-network-south-africa","tag-awqaf-sa","tag-coalition-for-a-free-palestine-south-africa","tag-coalition-for-egyptian-democracy","tag-egypt","tag-jamiatul-ulama-south-africa","tag-msa-union","tag-muslim-youth-movement-mym","tag-south-african-municipal-workers-union"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jamait.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}