Reuters news agency reported on Sunday 13 February that "an Egyptian army source" has said that a ban on strikes and union meetings would be decreed on Monday 14th.
Egypt's new military rulers will issue a warning against anyone who creates "chaos and disorder," an army source said Sunday.
The source said the military statement was now expected to appear Monday, not Sunday as the source had said earlier.
The Higher Military Council will also ban meetings by labour unions or professional syndicates, effectively forbidding strikes, and tell all Egyptians to get back to work after the unrest that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The army will also say it acknowledges and protects the right of people to protest, the source said.
Click here for Reuters update, 07:19, 14 January.
Reuters also reported that on Sunday 13 February troops were trying to clear demonstrators out of Tahrir Square.
Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers shoved pro-democracy protesters aside to force a path for traffic to start flowing through central Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday for the first time in more than two weeks.
Protesters chanted "peacefully, peacefully" as the soldiers and military police in red berets moved in to disperse them. Scuffles broke out and some soldiers lashed out with sticks.
The military police chief told protesters to clear tents from the square and not to disrupt traffic.
"We do not want any protesters to sit in the square after today," Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa Ali, the head of military police, told protesters and reporters as soldiers removed tents from the square.
The army has said it respects the demands of protesters, whose mass action drove Hosni Mubarak from power. It has also called on them to go home and let normal life resume... Protesters said soldiers had detained about 50 people since Saturday night.
Reuters quoted "a 38-year-old industrial worker who gave his name only as Mohamed, [who] said he had changed his mind about going home.
"I was going to leave today, but after what the military has done, the millions will be back again. The corrupt system still stands. It has gone back to using the only thing it understands -- force. If we leave, they won't respond to our demands."
Egypt is not free yet! The top command of the army are Mubarak's cronies. Their promises are not to be trusted any more than his.
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