Morsi's backers said they would hold a "march of the millions" on Friday, and denounced the orders given to police by the interim cabinet to end their Cairo sit-ins.Diplomatic efforts picked up pace, with EU Middle East envoy Bernardino Leon and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle both arriving in Cairo to urge the rival camps to avoid bloodshed and find common ground.
"The national alliance supporting legitimacy and defying the coup calls upon all the free people of the world to demonstrate peacefully in (an) 'Egypt against the coup' march of the millions," a coalition of Morsi loyalists said in a statement.
It denounced the government's call for its protests to be broken up and urged "all honourable military and police forces not to direct their bullets at their brothers and sisters of the Egyptian people."
The order from the government came on Wednesday afternoon, and raised fears of new violence, less than a week after 82 people were killed in clashes at a pro-Morsi rally in Cairo.
"The continuation of the dangerous situation in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, and consequent terrorism and road blockages, are no longer acceptable given the threat to national security," the cabinet said in a statement.
"The government has decided to take all necessary measures to confront and end these dangers, and tasks the interior minister to do all that is necessary in this regard, in accordance with the constitution and law."
The international community, which has expressed mounting concern over the violence since Morsi's July 3 ouster, warned against further bloodshed. (AFP)
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