DHAKA: The Muslim Brotherhood supported calls for continued protests and strongly condemned violence used by security forces, saying it demonstrated the regime’s weakness.

The group, in a statement issued on Sunday, accused the ‘putschists’ of the terrorism that it claimed to fight, adding that the use of brutality demonstrated the government’s weakness, reports dailynewsegypt.com.

The Anti-Coup Alliance, a group supported by the Brotherhood and other groups calling for the return of ousted president Mohamed Mursi called for ‘short’ protests this coming Friday that end in vigils ‘in which we make supplication to God’.

The group last Friday had called for marches to avoid major squares in Cairo in an effort to avert bloodshed and further violence with police.

BDST: 1946 HRS, OCT 13, 2013
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