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Police fire teargas at pro-Morsi march to media complex Police attempt to disperse march approaching the Media Production City complex protesting 'media bias'
Police fired teargas at a march by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi which was approaching the Media Production City complex outside Cairo on Friday. The rally headed to the media complex, where most privately-owned Egyptian channels are based, to protest what they described as media bias. The protesters chanted against media figures as well as against the police and army. Several sit-ins organised by Islamist groups have been held at the media complex, located in the satellite city of 6 October, over the last year. Prior to the 30 June anti-Morsi protests the site was one of the first venues to be secured. The longest sit-in besieging the complex started in December and lasted several weeks after Islamists condemned the non-Islamist media for "inciting violence" and "misleading the public." The December sit-in followed a call by popular Salafist preacher Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail for a “purge” of Egyptian media. Islamists protested at the Media Production City site again in March, assaulting several media personalities while demonstrating against perceived "anti-Islamist bias" in Egypt's media. The March protests were again supported by Abu-Ismail. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood distanced itself from the protests, although some supporters reportedly attended. Abu-Ismail is currently under arrest, along with senior Muslim Brotherhood figures, while being investigating charges of inciting violence against opposition protesters. The march which headed to the complex on Friday is one of a number of protests taking place in Cairo and Alexandria organised by the Muslim Brotherhood to protest Morsi's ouster and threats by the interior ministry to disperse ongoing pro-Morsi sit-ins. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/78146.aspx
