AFP, Cairo :Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for a ‘day of anger’ Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi, which unleashed a violent crackdown that all but crushed the Islamists.Police closed off several main squares in Cairo and beefed up security ahead of the anticipated protests.Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement was listed as a terrorist group after his overthrow and many of its leaders, including Morsi, jailed.The ex-army chief who toppled him, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has since replaced him as president.The protests on Thursday will be seen as a test of the Islamists’ strength, with the Brotherhood-led Anti Coup Alliance having issued an aggressive rallying cry on Wednesday demanding a “day of anger” to mark Morsi’s ouster.Despite the crackdown, the Islamists, joined by some allies, have insisted on continuing their protests in the hope, they say, of making the country ungovernable for Sisi.Since Morsi’s ouster on July 3 after a turbulent year in power, at least 1,400 people have been killed in street clashes, and more than 15,000 thousand have been imprisoned.
