{"id":5950,"date":"2013-07-04T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/egypt-army-detains-president-morsi-aides\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:24:55","slug":"egypt-army-detains-president-morsi-aides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/egypt-army-detains-president-morsi-aides\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Army detains President Morsi, aides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Egypt’s army is “preventively” holding ousted president Mohamed Morsi after his ouster by an army decree, a senior army official told AFP Thursday.<\/p>\n

“He is being held preventively for final preparations,” the official said, suggesting Morsi might face formal charges over accusations made by his opponents.<\/p>\n

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Morsi was detained along with senior aides after issuing a defiant call for supporters to protect his elected “legitimacy”, in a recorded speech hours after the military announced he had been ousted Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We had to confront it at some point, this threatening rhetoric,” the military official said.<\/p>\n

“He succeeded in creating enmity between Egyptians,” the official said.<\/p>\n

At least 50 people were killed in clashes in the days leading to massive protests on June 30 calling for his departure.<\/p>\n

That prompted the army to issue the president a 48-hour ultimatum to find an agreement with the protesters.<\/p>\n

Morsi has been summoned for questioning by a court over his escape, along with other inmates, from prison during the revolt that overthrew his predecessor Hosni Mubarak in 2011.<\/p>\n

The military official suggested he may now be charged by prosecutors in the case.<\/p>\n

A senior member of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has earlier told AFP Morsi and senior aides had been detained in a military facility.<\/p>\n

“Morsi and the entire presidential team are under house arrest in the Presidential Republican Guards Club,” Gehad El-Haddad, the son of a top Morsi aide, told AFP.<\/p>\n

Haddad’s father, Essam El-Haddad, widely seen as Morsi’s right-hand man, was among those held, he added.<\/p>\n

The military official did not specify where Morsi is being held. Haddad said the ousted president was separated from his aides and detained at the defence ministry.<\/p>\n

Morsi’s top aides have switched off their phones. Other presidential aides who were separated from Morsi earlier in the day say they have lost communication with their leader.<\/p>\n

Morsi had earlier been at his office in the Republican Guard’s headquarters, before he was moved.<\/p>\n

A police general told AFP that security forces were seeking to arrest leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood movement.<\/p>\n

Police have already arrested Saad al-Katatni, head of Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party, and Rashad Bayoumi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy supreme guide, the general said.<\/p>\n

Hours after the military announced it had cancelled the constitution and would appoint the head of Egypt’s top court as interim president, Morsi issued a defiant call to arms in a prerecorded speech aired on Al-Jazeera television.<\/p>\n

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