At least one person has been killed after clashes erupted between supporters of Egypt’s deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, and riot police during an anti-government protest in a northern province.
According to an Egyptian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, the protest rally turned violent after Egyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse “dozens of members of the Muslim Brotherhood” in the Nile Delta Province of Kafr el-Sheikh on Friday.
The source further said the violence left “one Brotherhood man dead and another wounded.”
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, was ousted in July 2013 in a military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the country’s current president and then army commander.
Since then, Egypt has been the scene of massive anti-government protests, with continuous clashes between security forces and the supporters of the ousted leader.
The new rulers in Egypt have come under pressure from human rights groups over their harsh crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters. The movement has been also blacklisted as a terrorist organization by the military-backed government in Cairo.
Rights groups say the army’s crackdown on pro-Morsi demonstrations has led to the death of over 1,400 people and the arrest of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.
Morsi and his aides are currently on trial in several cases and could face the death penalty if convicted.
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