JUDGES in Egypt's second city of Alexandria have announced a strike to reject a decree by President Mohamed Morsi which grants him sweeping powers immune from judicial oversight.
The Judges Club of Alexandria on Saturday announced "the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations in the provinces of Alexandria and Beheira ... until the end of the crisis caused by this declaration," club chief Mohammed Ezzat al-Agwa said in a statement.
Meanwhile Egypt's highest judicial authority on Saturday slammed Morsi's decree, which makes his decisions immune from judicial oversight as an "unprecedented attack".
The new constitutional declaration is "an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings," it said in a statement after an emergency meeting.
Morsi's constitutional declaration replaced the country's chief prosecutor, appointed under ousted president Hosny Mubarak.
Thursday's announcement also made Morsi's decrees immune to judicial review and barred any court from dissolving the constituent assembly, which is drawing up a new constitution.
Around 100 people were injured around Egypt on Friday when thousands of protesters clashed with Morsi's supporters in several cities, where offices of the president's Muslim Brotherhood party were burned.
On Friday, the president spoke before a crowd of his supporters massed in front of his palace and said his edicts were necessary to stop a "minority" that was trying to block the goals of the revolution.
"There are weevils eating away at the nation of Egypt," he said, pointing to old regime loyalists he accused of using money to fuel instability and to members of the judiciary who work under the "umbrella" of the courts to "harm the country."
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