CAIRO: Supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi manned makeshift barriers as they braced for a crackdown as early as Monday on their Cairo protest camps following the expiry of a government ultimatum.

Morsi loyalists, led by his Muslim Brotherhood movement, have kept in place two huge protest camps in the capital and have also staged almost daily demonstrations around Egypt against the Islamist leader’s July 3 ouster by the military.

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