Egyptian police fire tear gas on protesters as tension mounts

AFP

Police fired tear gas on Saturday CAIRO Bullet resistant to spread demonstrators camped in Cairo of Tahrir Square if Western Governments voiced growing concern about Islamic President Mohammed Morsi assumption powers in the field.

A hard core of opposition activists had spent the night in the iconic protest hub — epicenter of the uprising that veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak overthrown last year — establishment of some 30 tents, an AFP correspondent reported.

But when more demonstrators attempt to join them in the morning, police responded with salvos of tear gas forcing them to retreat into the surrounding streets.

By afternoon, small groups of protesters continued to occupy the square, where trade in the normally busy thoroughfare was brought almost to a standstill.

Under the leadership of the opposition protests were held in most major cities of Egypt on Friday, sparking violent clashes in the city of Suez Canal and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where the offices of the Islamic freedom and Justice Party, which supported Morsi for the Presidency, were put into fire.

The mainly secular liberal activists expressed to ensure that Morsi the momentum of their protests against Decree on Thursday placed his decisions outside the judicial control, to add to his enormous power.

They called a new mass protest in Tahrir for Tuesday.

"Egypt is at the beginning of a new revolution because it is never our intention to a dictator replaced by another," activist Mohammed al-Gamal told AFP, show that his broken glasses and hand in a plaster than he said were the result of the action of the police.

Washington, which only had praise for the role Wednesday expressed Morsi in the creation of a truce between Israel and Gaza Hamas rulers against eight days of deadly violence, international criticism of the president of the Islamic movement.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups were also in strength on Friday in a show of support for the President in his movement to prevent the dissolution of the constituent Assembly and the upper House of Parliament Islamistdominated as they already have the lower courts.

Clashes broke out between the rival supporters in different cities, AFP correspondents and State television reported.

In an address to supporters outside the Presidential Palace, Morsi insisted that Egypt remained on the road to "freedom and democracy", despite his to the judiciary are undermined.

"Political stability, social stability and economic stability are what I want and that's what I work for," he said.

The President has already held both Executive and legislative power and decision Thursday and put him to a new Constitution through an extrajudicial monitoring referendum is ratified.

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