{"id":43214,"date":"2019-09-21T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43214"},"modified":"2019-09-21T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:20:16","slug":"in-rare-protests-egyptians-demand-president-sisis-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43214","title":{"rendered":"In Rare Protests, Egyptians Demand President Sisi&#8217;s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAIRO, Sept 21 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have marched in cities across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/egypt.html\">Egypt,<\/a> to demand the resignation of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi.html\">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a>.                                                                                           <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting: &#8220;rise up, fear not, Sisi must go&#8221; and &#8220;the people demand the regime&#8217;s fall&#8221; late on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests were reported in the capital Cairo, the second-biggest city of Alexandria, and Suez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers in civilian clothes confronted the demonstrators, who tried to approach the Tahrir Square in Cairo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were several reports&nbsp;of arrests made in the capital, and tear gas being used on demonstrators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations came after self-exiled Egyptian businessman and actor, Mohamed Ali, accused President el-Sisi of corruption and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/egyptian-businessman-calls-president-el-sisi-step-190919091741745.html\">called on people<\/a> to take to the streets and demand the leader be removed. Sisi dismissed the allegations as &#8220;lies.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If el-Sisi does not announce his resignation by Thursday, then the Egyptian people will come out to the square on Friday in protest,&#8221; Ali said.&#8211; NNN-MENA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Sept 21 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have marched in cities across Egypt, to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting: &#8220;rise up, fear not, Sisi must go&#8221; and &#8220;the people demand the regime&#8217;s fall&#8221; late on Friday. Protests were reported in the capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,291,194,316],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}