Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi extended his battle against Egyptian institutions, attempting to oust Egypt’s Prosecutor General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud. The prosecutor general, who is refusing to resign, is under fire for acquittals in a case of brutality linked to the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled the Mubarak regime. Morsi’s actions are widely percieved as one of a series of institutional power grabs, which have triggered concerns among Western analysts that the Muslim Brotherhood-linked figure intends to govern autocratically.

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