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More than 500 protesters were arrested by security forces as the government vowed to crackdown on them.
On Wednesday evening, thousands of demonstrators were spread throughout downtown Cairo after being dispersed by security forces. Many had gathered on Gelaa Street, near central Tahrir Square - the site of a violent early morning confrontation between security forces and protesters who had been planning to sleep the night in defiance of the government.
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But the group said that it would not officially participate in the January 25 protests and denied the accusation.
With just eight months to go before a presidential election that could see the ailing Mubarak run for re-election or attempt to hand power to a successor, protesters in Egypt demanded a solution to the country's grinding poverty and called for "the tyrant" to leave.
"Down with Hosni Mubarak, down with the tyrant," chanted the crowds. "We don't want you!"
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Al Jazeera's Rageh said state-run newspapers downplayed the events in their Wednesday editions, but that opposition and independent papers ran comparatively unbiased headlines.
The independent Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt Today) newspaper ran a blunt headline: "A Warning."
The interior ministry, which controls the security forces, said authorities wanted to let the protesters express their opinions and accused the crowds of "insisting on provocation."
This post has been edited by UkhwAh: 27 January 2011 - 02:44 AM

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