# Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi Date: 2013 ## The fact On 3 July 2013 then-Defence Minister [Abdel Fattah el-Sisi](/people/abdel-fattah-el-sisi) announced on television the removal of President [Mohamed Morsi](/people/mohamed-morsi) and the suspension of the constitution. ## Context He was defence minister and spoke for the armed forces. Morsi had been elected in 2012. Morsi is named in prose and is not minted. 30 June protests; 3 July army statement; 14 August Rab’a. Stored as one 3 July 2013 Fact. Keep Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi on 2013-07-03 separate from neighbouring coup, Rab’a, referendum, and 2023-return instruments. The president of Egypt is head of state and supreme commander. In 2013 he was defence minister and deputy prime minister for security. He can announce an ouster, command a dispersal, and accept an NEA return. He does not write an HRW investigation, an IMF board minute, or a unique Rab’a integer invented here. ## Evidence and sources BBC News carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned military-presidency driver: a completed army removal of an elected president. ## What is established and what is not Established: Sisi announced Morsi’s removal on 3 July 2013 as defence minister. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The army executed. Sharing execution is not a reason to drop 3 July 2013.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi, not a later speech about Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi on 2013-07-03 is not a licence to treat every later BBC News communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Defence Minister Sisi announces the removal of President Mohamed Morsi into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He announced the ouster as defence minister. The army executed. Sharing execution is not a reason to drop 3 July 2013. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: https://factrail.ai/people/abdel-fattah-el-sisi ## Drivers - Sisi post-2013 military presidency: https://factrail.ai/drivers/sisi-post-2013-military-presidency - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130703/ - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-23173794 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eg-sisi-coup-2013