Egypt's Brotherhood will not take up arms - senior leader


  • World
  • Thursday, 04 Jul 2013

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will not take up arms after the military overthrew its member Mohamed Mursi as president but it will not accept a military coup, a senior leader said on Thursday.

"This is a military coup. We will remain and deprive it of legitimacy until it is corrected," Mohamed El-Beltagy told reporters at a pro-Mursi sit-in outside a mosque in Cairo.

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