Egypt Police Clash With Protesters

Egyptian police swiftly quashed protests marking the anniversary Thursday of the military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, firing tear gas and arresting dozens of demonstrators.

One Muslim Brotherhood member was shot dead and at least 11 people wounded in Egypt on Tuesday, security sources said, with the Islamist group accusing plain clothes police of firing on their march.

Islamist backers of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi staged defiant rallies yesterday and clashed with police in Cairo, after the government ordered their protest camps to be broken up.

Seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded when supporters of Mohamed Morsi clashed with the deposed president's opponents and security forces through the night as violence returned to Egypt's streets.

After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage.

Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

Riot police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo on Monday, a day after Egypt's president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence and vowed to deal "firmly and forcefully" with the unrest roiling the country.

Protesters attacked police stations and set tyres alight and relatives of those who were sentenced clashed with security forces as they tried to storm the prison in Port Said where the defendants are being held.

Police used tear gas as they clashed on Thursday with a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy in Cairo at a film mocking Islam, witnesses and the interior ministry said.

Police are clashing for a third day in Cairo's central Tahrir Square with stone-throwing protesters demanding the country's military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. About 3,000 protesters are on the square, facing off with hundreds of black-clad riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Several hundred Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, with sporadic clashes between protesters and the police following a night of deadly violence, an AFP correspondent said.

A demonstrator was killed and hundreds of people injured as Egyptian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a sit-in organised by some of the driving forces behind the Arab Spring revolt. The dead man sustained a bullet wound to the chest, a doctor on the scene said.

Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time.The punishing tactics by authorities appeared to foil plans for a mass gathering in Bahrain's capital Manama, but it underscored the sh...

Egyptian police swiftly quashed protests marking the anniversary Thursday of the military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, firing tear gas and arresting dozens of demonstrators.

One Muslim Brotherhood member was shot dead and at least 11 people wounded in Egypt on Tuesday, security sources said, with the Islamist group accusing plain clothes police of firing on their march.

Islamist backers of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi staged defiant rallies yesterday and clashed with police in Cairo, after the government ordered their protest camps to be broken up.

Seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded when supporters of Mohamed Morsi clashed with the deposed president's opponents and security forces through the night as violence returned to Egypt's streets.

After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage.

Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

Riot police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo on Monday, a day after Egypt's president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence and vowed to deal "firmly and forcefully" with the unrest roiling the country.

Protesters attacked police stations and set tyres alight and relatives of those who were sentenced clashed with security forces as they tried to storm the prison in Port Said where the defendants are being held.

Police used tear gas as they clashed on Thursday with a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy in Cairo at a film mocking Islam, witnesses and the interior ministry said.

Police are clashing for a third day in Cairo's central Tahrir Square with stone-throwing protesters demanding the country's military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. About 3,000 protesters are on the square, facing off with hundreds of black-clad riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Several hundred Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, with sporadic clashes between protesters and the police following a night of deadly violence, an AFP correspondent said.

A demonstrator was killed and hundreds of people injured as Egyptian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a sit-in organised by some of the driving forces behind the Arab Spring revolt. The dead man sustained a bullet wound to the chest, a doctor on the scene said.

Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time.The punishing tactics by authorities appeared to foil plans for a mass gathering in Bahrain's capital Manama, but it underscored the sh...