Summary Military vehicles have been stationed at entrances to the square, a symbol for supporters of Morsi.
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian troops sealed off roads leading to Cairo s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square ahead of Islamist marches Tuesday, weeks after hundreds died in a police crackdown on a protest camp there, state media reported.
The official MENA news agency reported that military vehicles were stationed at entrances to the northern Cairo square, a symbol for supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after the August 14 crackdown.
The measure comes ahead of a call by Morsi s supporters for nationwide demonstrations to mark two months since his July 3 ouster by the military.
The military also blocked entrances to Cairo s iconic Tahrir Square, MENA reported.
On Monday, the Anti-Coup Alliance which is led by Morsi s Muslim Brotherhood, said the demonstrations would be held under the slogan: "The coup is terrorism."
"These demonstrations and other activities" are "aimed at achieving the return of Morsi," it said.
But the alliance s ability to mobilise supporters has greatly waned because of sweeping arrests of the Brotherhood s top leaders among at least 2,000 Islamists detained since mid-August.
On Tuesday, a military court sentenced 11 Brotherhood members to life in prison for attacks on soldiers in the city of Suez.
Forty-five Brotherhood members were handed five-year prison sentences and eight were acquitted.
The military cracked down on sit-in protests by Morsi s supporters on August 14, and hundreds died in clashes there as well as in violence in the rest of the country in what became the bloodiest day in Egypt s recent history.
Morsi, Egypt s first democratically elected president, served for only a year before the military ousted him in the popularly-backed coup.
