Coptic Christian demonstrators outside Maspiro, the state television headquarters, cooperated with the Egyptian Prime Minister's request that they open a side road to allow traffic to pass. The demonstrators, who are staging a sit-in now in its seventh day, moved their tents to open the road. Priest Metias told Youm7 that the demonstrators' response was a result of Sharaf's “non-discriminatory and historic statement” in which he promised to issue a unified law for building places of worship. The Coptic Priest said opening the road was aimed at satisfying the interest of the Egyptians. He confirmed, however, that the strike will not end until all those who incited the deadly sectarian clashes in Cairo's poverty-stricken Imbaba neighborhood last week are arrested. He called for the arrest of Ashraf Abu-Anas, who threatened to burn all churches in Imbaba, as well as twelve others who were involved in inciting sectarian tension between Muslims and Christians, including as Hafez Salama, Al-Zoghbi and Abu-Yehia. Metias announced that a conference will be held today to clarify that the strike is not an objective but a means to restore the right of all Egyptians.
