Friday, February 1, 2013

Live Updates: Teargas, Molotov cocktails are being thrown into Morsi's palace gardens on Egypt's 'Friday of Deliverance'.


Live Updates: Teargas, Molotov cocktails are being thrown into Morsi's palace gardens on Egypt's 'Friday of Deliverance'.(AO).19:10 Security forces remove protesters’ tents that were erected outside the Presidential Palace before torching them.
19:15 Thousands of protesters remain assembled near the Presidential Palace but remain at a safe distance due to the continuous use of teargas by security forces. Protesters, for their part, continue to shoot fireworks at security personnel, Osman El-Sharnoubi reports.
“An armoured vehicle is now moving closer, firing volleys of teargas at protesters,” added Osman.

19:18 According to President Morsi’s official facebook page, a statement will soon be released by the president’s office. No further information is given.

19:05 According to the Freedom and Justice Party’s official Facebook page, four bullet-proof armoured vehicles were deployed by security forces near the presidential palace as clashes intensified.

19:00 Thousands are gathered at Ahly club stadium to commemorate the 72 Ahly football fans who were killed in last year’s Port Said football massacre. Present at the commemoration were families of the slain.

18:55 The April 6 Youth Movement has announced on its official Twitter account that it withdrew from the presidential palace when the clashes started and has nothing to do with what is going on there.
The April 6 Democratic Front also withdrew in protest at the use of violence.
“The protests started peacefully, the security even withdrew inside the palace; however, we were surprised to see the use of violence by some people,” Mohamed Youssef, spokesman of the 6 April Democratic Front told CBC channel, condemning the violence and stressing that the revolution had always been a peaceful one.

18:50 Hundreds of protesters are heading from Tahrir Square to the Shura Council in a rally . There are reports that the protesters will start a sit-in.
In the Delta city of Kafr El-Sheikh, 18 protesters and CSF soldiers were injured during clashes between protesters and police forces, reports Al-Ahram Arabic website. Clashes reportedly intensifed when police forces fired a heavy round of teargas at protesters, who hurled rocks at security forces during the protest in front of the governorate headquarters.
Five protesters were reportedly arrested during the clashes.

18:45 It seems as though the situation at the presidential palace is getting more tense, with lots of teargas being fired and protesters lighting flares and throwing Molotov cocktails.
Ahram Online’s Bel Trew reports that two or three hundred people are in front of the palace, and they have been pushed back to where the security baricade used to be in front of the Heliopolis Club. Three or four Central Security Forces armoured vehicles are facing the protesters, and police behind them are intermittendly firing teargas at the protesters. Ten ambulances are stationed nearby, with no confirmation of any injuries so far. Protesters are defiantly chanting “Leave means go” according to Trew. 

18:30 Ahram Online’s Osman El-Sharnoubi says protesters are starting to move away from the palace en masse as more tear gas is fired and armoured security vehicles are moving in the direction of protesters.

18:20 Teargas is being fired close to the presidential palace's main gate, reports Ahram Online's Osman El-Sharnoubi.

18:00 Some minor clashes have started at the presidential palace in Heliopolis between protesters and security forces. According to Ahram Online’s Salma Shukrallah, Molotov cocktails are being thrown into the palace gardens, causing a minor fire, while security forces are using water cannons against the protesters. Some protesters are starting to leave, apparently scared off by these incidents.Read the events as they take place here.

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