穆爾西的支持者堅守抗議營地

Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi are defiantly remaining at their protest camps in Cairo, despite days of warnings that the government would soon move on the sites.

Large crowds of pro-Morsi protesters were at the camps Monday night, chanting, waving flags and holding up signs of the man they say should be reinstated as president.

Saba Mahmood, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, told VOA ((English to Africa)) the interim government has not broken up the camps because the resulting bloodshed would be a "very serious political cost."

But she says Mr. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is facing bigger stakes than getting him back in office, after the arrests of other key members of the group and moves to freeze assets it uses for political work and providing services to the community.儘管埃及政府數天來警告說將很快採取清場行動，被罷免的前埃及總統穆爾西的支持者繼續大膽地堅守在開羅的抗議營地。

星期一晚上，大批支持穆爾西的抗議者揮舞旗幟，並高舉寫有穆爾西名字的標語牌，要求恢復他的總統職位。

美國加州大學伯克利分校的人類學副教授馬赫穆德對美國之音說，由於清場帶來的流血將導致非常嚴重的政治後果，埃及臨時政府還沒有采取行動。

但馬赫穆德說，穆爾西的穆斯林兄弟會面臨着比爭取他官復原職更大的挑戰，此前穆兄會的主要成員被逮捕，而且當局凍結了該組織用於政治活動及社區服務的資產。