Morsi supporters protested in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday for the first time since the army forced him from office in July, risking the wrath of security forces who had been keeping a close eye on the area.
About 100 protesters gathered in the square, chanting, “Down with the military government!”
“We are a country not a military camp,” the Morsi supporters shouted in Tahrir, which was the rallying point in 2011 for hundreds of thousands of people against former President Hosni Mubarak. “We want freedom!” they said.
Shortly after arriving in Tahrir, passersby attacked them with rocks. Riot police then moved in and dispersed the crowd.
