{"id":1255,"date":"2012-11-26T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/26\/egyptian-president-morsi-mourns-activists-slain-in-latest-clashes\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:12:08","slug":"egyptian-president-morsi-mourns-activists-slain-in-latest-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/egyptian-president-morsi-mourns-activists-slain-in-latest-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian President Morsi mourns activists slain in latest clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi expressed his condolences on Monday for the death of Mohamed Mahmoud Street protester Gaber Salah and Islam Massoud. The latter was reportedly a Muslim Brotherhood member who was killed Sunday night in the Nile Delta governorate of Damanhour.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">&#8220;The presidency mourns two of the nation&#8217;s finest young men \u2013 Gaber Salah and Islam Massoud \u2013 who were martyred during the latest events,&#8221; the presidency said in a Monday statement.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">President Morsi, according to the statement, has ordered Egypt&#8217;s prosecutor-general to present results of ongoing investigations into clashes seen in Egypt over the past week.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Salah, a member of the 6 April Youth Movement, was shot in the head and chest on 20 November during police-protester clashes on Cairo&#8217;s Mohamed Mahmoud Street. He succumbed to his injuries on Sunday. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Anti-Morsi protesters in Tahrir Square have set up a stage in his honour, while a funeral was held for him at Omar Makram Mosque adjacent to the square.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Islam Massoud, a 15-year-old high school student, was also killed late Sunday night in Damanhour, where anti-Brotherhood activists \u2013 who oppose the president&#8217;s constitutional decrees, by which he has expanded his powers \u2013 attacked the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s Freedom and Justice Party.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Opposition forces denounced the killing of Massoud and Salah, holding the country&#8217;s rulers responsible for their deaths.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi expressed his condolences on Monday for the death of Mohamed Mahmoud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,56],"tags":[1489,1492,506,68,1491,1487,1488,1420,1490],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ynews1","category-news","tag-activists","tag-clashes","tag-egyptian","tag-in","tag-latest","tag-morsi","tag-mourns","tag-president","tag-slain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}