As confrontation intensified between oppositon and Mursi after the latter assumed absolute power through decrees last month, three private channels today announced to leave their screens blank tomorrow.
Eleven independent newspapers protested against a disputed new constitution declaring they will not bring out editions tomorrow, denouncing the moves by Mursi to go ahead with the proclamation of the new constitution without the participation of the liberals and Christian members, local media reports said.
Three of them carried the same cartoon on their front pages today depicting a mock up of a man made up from newspapers imprisoned in a solitary cell with chains around his feet. The accompanying headline read "No to constitution that limits freedoms, no to dictatorship".
Protests by the media comes on the heels of judicial rebellion against Mursi, where the country's Supreme Constitutional Court has declared an open-ended strike on the day it is supposed to rule on the legitimacy of two key assemblies controlled by the Islamist leader.
The strike announced by the court yesterday coincides with Opposition plans to march to the Presidential palace to take the political crisis in the country to a new level. (MORE)
