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Showdown Set for Tuesday Over Morsi Declaration

Clashes continued in Egypt with further confrontations expected, Mohannad Sabry reports from Cairo for Al-Monitor.
General view of tents in Tahrir square as protesters and activists continue with their sit-in, in Cairo, November 25, 2012. More than 500 people have been injured in protests since Friday, when Egyptians awoke to news Mursi had issued a decree temporarily widening his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

CAIRO — One protester was killed Sunday and more than 60 were injured in clashes that erupted in Damanhour between members of the Muslim Brotherhood and others opposing President Mohammed Morsi’s constitutional declaration that grants him full immunity from all state bodies including the judiciary.

Islam Masoud, a 15-year-old student died after allegedly being brutally beaten by armed men during violent confrontations in front of the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Damanhour, some 150 miles northeast of the capital Cairo. The Freedom and Justice Party claimed that Masoud is one of its members.

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