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Machtkampf in Ägypten # 03.12.2012 13 Uhr # kairo11a # Journal

December 3, 2012

In Egypt -the power struggle between the President Mohammed Mursi and the judiciary has deepened - with top judges suspending their work indefinitely. They made the move after Mursi's Islamist supporters swarmed the high court building to halt their work. The court was expected to dissolve the committee writing the new constitution which enshrines Islamic Sharia law as the nation's legal foundation. A referendum on the document is set for mid-December.

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