CAIRO
By Hazem Badr
T-shirts emblazoned with the image of ousted President Mohamed Morsi are becoming a source of joy for his supporters camped out in the Rabaa al-Adawiya square in eastern Cairo.
"I have three children and they all will wear this shirt," Yehia Abdel-Moneim, an engineer, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
T-shirts bearing the image of the deposed leader and masks of his face are being sold in the tent-city sit-in by Morsi supporters in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in eastern Cairo.
"A great injustice has been done to this man (Morsi) and I know how the problem of power outage has been created for him," said Abdel-Moneim who works at a power plant.
Under Morsi, Egypt had seen severe fuel and gas shortages, prolonged electricity cuts, security vacuum and sharp depreciation of the local currency which sent commodity prices sky high, promoting thousands of disgruntled Egyptians to take to the streets on June 30 against the elected leader.
"Having my children wear shirts bearing President Morsi's image is a message to all that we stand by legitimacy," Abdel-Moneim said.
Adawy, a pro-Morsi demonstrator, was happy to pick a shirt bearing Morsi's image for his son.
"His opponents do not want to see President Morsi, but his image will be emblazoned on our children's clothes in Eid," he told AA.
Morsi supporters have been staging round-the-clock sit-ins in Rabaa Square and Giza's Nahda Square since the former president's July 3 ouster by the military following mass protests against him.
They demand the reinstatement of the ousted leader, the dissolved Shura Council (the upper house of Egypt's parliament) and the suspended constitution.
The government has described the two sit-ins as a "threat" to national security and mandated the interior minister to take "all necessary measures" to disperse them.
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