GD thread, photo on the current occupation of Tahrir Square, Egypt (Update)

Last edited Mon Dec 3, 2012, 03:27 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021895667

An amazing picture. An amazing people!


Egypt's top court shuts down, blames protesters

http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-top-court-shuts-down-blames-protesters-051812098.html

CAIRO (Reuters) - Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Mursi forced Egypt's highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely on Sunday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country's top judges and the head of state.

The Supreme Constitutional Court said it would not convene until its judges could operate without "psychological and material pressure", saying protesters had stopped the judges from reaching the building.

Several hundred Mursi supporters had protested outside the court through the night ahead of a session expected to examine the legality of parliament's upper house and the assembly that drafted a new constitution, both of them Islamist-controlled.

(More at the link.)