Egypt's Islamists to Rally for Morsi on Saturday

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists will rally on Saturday to support President Mohamed Morsi in the wake of mass protests against his decree to assume broad powers, a Brotherhood official said.

Mahmoud Ghozlan, a senior Brotherhood member and spokesman, told Agence France Presse the rally would be held in Cairo, after the movement had canceled a mass demonstration that would have coincided with Tuesday's huge opposition protest.

"Al-Nour party will organize a million man march next Saturday to support the constitutional declaration," a spokesman for the Salafist party, Nader Bakkar, wrote on his Twitter account.

On Tuesday, tens of thousands of Morsi's opponents rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square and across the country demanding he rescind the decree which gave him unprecedented presidential powers and placed his decisions beyond judicial review.