Jordan's opposition Islamists on Tuesday denounced an Egyptian court's decision to ban all Muslim Brotherhood activities, saying the ruling sought to "reestablish oppression and tyranny."

"Egypt's military coupists took this decision against people's will after they failed to win their confidence," Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of Jordan's Brotherhood, said on Facebook.

An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow to the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohammed Morsi.

The court also banned "any institution branching out from or belonging to the Brotherhood," the official MENA news agency reported, possibly restricting the movement's political arm the Freedom and Justice Party.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Sunday assured his American counterpart John Kerry that civilians arrested during recent protests across Egypt would not face military trials, a U.S. official said.

Several Egyptian human rights organizations have condemned military trials of civilians, saying that about 60 convictions have been passed by army tribunals since July 3.

A new Egyptian constitution replacing the one suspended on president Mohammed Morsi's ouster will be put to a referendum by November's end, a spokesman for the panel drafting the charter said Sunday.

The new charter would lead to parliamentary and then presidential elections by mid-2014 according to a timetable set by military-installed president Adly Mansour after Morsi's overthrow in July.

An Egyptian farmer has been arrested for putting the name of the country's military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and an army cap on his donkey, state media said Saturday.

Omar Abu al-Magd Ali al-Saghir, 31, was arrested late on Friday in the central province of Qena for allegedly insulting the general, state news agency MENA reported.

Sporadic clashes erupted after Friday prayers as supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi demonstrated in several cities, leaving some people wounded, state media and a witness said.

In the capital's Dokki district, two people were wounded when a pro-Morsi march came under attack, witness Hussein al-Gindi said.

Police on Friday hunted down militants in a village near Cairo as hundreds attended the funeral of a police general killed a day earlier when security forces overran the Islamist bastion.

A security official said 87 wanted men, some armed, had been arrested in Kerdassah, a village near the Giza pyramids, since the start of the operation on Thursday morning.

Visiting EU special envoy Bernardino Leon said Thursday a political reconciliation in Egypt was necessary even if "extremely difficult" following Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's ouster.

Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was deposed on July 3 by the powerful army which installed a government that has launched a massive crackdown on his supporters and his Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt is to shorten a night-time curfew imposed on Cairo and 13 provinces starting Saturday, the cabinet said on Thursday.

The curfew will be from midnight to 5:00am (0300 GMT), except on Fridays when it will begin at 07:00 pm (1700 GMT), according to a cabinet statement.

A police general was killed when Egyptian security forces stormed a village on the outskirts of Cairo on Thursday in the latest crackdown on Islamist militants, security officials said.

Military and police vehicles surrounded Kerdassah in the shadow of the Giza pyramids after dawn, as police special forces deployed to confront "terrorists" in the village, the interior ministry said.