The Anti-Coup, Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance of Egypt called upon all Egyptians to join a week-long peaceful protest campaign under the slogan ‘The People Lead the Revolution’, affirming that arrest of its leaders will not discourage the Alliance “but increase its determination to stand for its demands.” A statement issued by the coalition on 22 August said: “The Alliance deeply appreciates and values the historical role of the Egyptian people who dazzled the whole world, and proved they are free and patriotic people who defend their will in every legitimate peaceful way available, despite all the arbitrary arrest operations, the killings, the brutal massacres and merciless genocide committed by the military against pro-legitimacy, pro-democracy opponents of the military coup and putschists who are doing their worst to dissuade people from demanding their freedom and their free will.
The statement noted that the forms of protests “varied in creative new ways – marches and vigils, human chains and rallies on scooters, in addition to a new pot-clanking campaign at nine in the evening – to break the curfew”.