01‏/02‏/2013

Violence flares in Cairo as thousands protest Morsi regime throughout Egypt


Protests turn violent in key Egyptian cities again on Friday, as thousands take to the streets to demand the end of Morsi’s government.
Protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at the British Embassy in Cairo and clashed with the security guards, Al-Arabiya reported.
Cairo footage also showed angry crowds pushed back from the presidential palace by the police.
Al-Arabiya said there were sporadic clashes with the police in Cairo earlier, and several protesters were injured by rubber bullets.
Several thousand people have gathered in Tahrir square on Friday, RT’s Bel Trew said.
“We came here to get rid of Morsi. He's only a president for the Brotherhood,” a protester told Reuters from amid the angry crowd that filled Tahrir square.
“I am here because I want my rights, the ones the revolution called for and which were never achieved,” another protester said.
Protesters dressed in black marched through the streets of Port Said, Alexandria and Ismailia chanting anti-Morsi slogans and proclaiming their anger over the nearly 60 victims of the recent civil unrest.
The Suez Canal city of Port Said saw crowds of protesters shouting, shaking their fists and carrying portraits of those shot in fierce clashes with police last weekend.
“We will die like they did, to get justice!” the protesters chanted according to Reuters. Recent unrest in the Suez Canal area has prompted the Egyptian government to deploy the army and impose a curfew, as the head of the armed forces warned the state was on the verge of “collapse.”
For the people protesting in Port Said, Friday also meant a year since the football stadium riot that left 74 people dead and hundreds injured.
In Alexandria hundreds of marching protesters blocked a major traffic intersection, Reuters said.
The last spike of violence in Egypt marked the second anniversary of the January 25 revolution. Last week’s deadly clashes proved the protesters demanding Morsi's government overthrow are not giving in. The Egyptian opposition has also persisted in its demands to form a unity government and have the controversial constitution amended.










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