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Egyptian ousted Islamist set three demands in meeting El Sisi

 
Salfist preacher Mohamed Hassan



Cairo: Egypt's Commander in Chief, El-Sisi meets with ousted Islamist parties delegation to discuss possible solution to the current political situation.

While meeting with the delegation, El-Sisi demanded that all parties should reject violence and abstain from occupying the places of public use, Ahram Online quoted the spokesman of El-Sisi.

While, Salafist preacher Mohamed Hassan confirmed the meeting with El-Sisi and his members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to bring forward demands of the forces protesting the military's removal of Morsi. 

The violence has claimed more than two hundred lives
The Sheikh said that El-Sisi promised not to forcibly disperse the sit-ins and to help set the scene for national reconciliation. Hassan claimed that in exchange El-Sisi demanded that leaders at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda sit-ins tone down their speech and that the sit-ins remain peaceful and not spill out onto the streets . 

The meeting delegations made three demands from military on the behalf of alliance, Firstly, (a) "an end to bloodshed," (b) the sit-ins in Cairo not to be "forcibly dispersed." (c) they demanded that all those arrested since Morsi's ouster on 3 July be released and all charges against them dropped. 

The group also called for serious national reconciliation that would start with tackling media "that is propagating hate speech and deepening divides in society. 

 (Source : Ahram Online)

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