Cairo (daily news from New York) – Raging clashes between police and protesters in Egypt Saturday killing two people and injured 750, the Ministry of Health, said, prompting a call from an important group of citizens to resist directed by the military government.

The April 6 Movement as a place in the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in the year issued a statement encouraging members to descend on Tahrir Square in Cairo “immediately, because the resistance is the only solution.”

“Down with the military regime,” said the movement.

Fighting broke out early in the day when the police worked to clear the area of ??people who remained in the square after mass demonstrations on Friday Tahrir. Tens of thousands of Egyptians were Friday to protest against plans for a constitution that protects the military from public scrutiny.

In the evening, on Saturday, police covered the tear gas and shot square. Security forces quickly retreated and stood at the interior minister. Warning shots were heard during the day.

Thousands of demonstrators remained at the scene. They shouted against the Council of the Armed Forces, which rules in Egypt, and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chief of the Council, which is effective interim leader of Egypt.

Protesters threw Molotov cocktails and stones and set fire to a police van. The fighting erupted in the side streets and clouds of smoke rose from burning tires, witnesses said.

Clashes between protesters and police have also erupted in the cities of Suez and Alexandria.

Two people were shot – one in Cairo, one in Alexandria – said Adel al-Dawi, a spokesman for the Department of Health. The state media reported that 750 people were injured, citing the Ministry of Health. The Interior Ministry also said 20 policemen were injured and eight people were arrested.

“We have sent hundreds of police in the central securities depository, and forced to leave the remaining several hundred protesters, who refused to go home. We have arrested four thieves and thugs, who act aggressively and has increased security around the square, and in one night, “Interior Ministry spokesman in this area, Mahmoud said Saturday.

The government held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent clashes and warned they might have a dangerous effect on Egypt, state media said.

Friday rush, dominated by Islamic parties, but also lay the protesters, too, proved to be the next parliamentary elections scheduled to begin Nov. 28.

Mahmoud said the “Islamic revolutionary left as they had promised not to have a sit-in”. However, remained behind, and he said many people remained in the place where the families of those injured in the riots earlier this year, which led to the departure of Mubarak and the opening of the Supreme Council as Acting Chief.

Yousri Hamad, the official spokesman of Al Noor Salafi Muslim party politics, said he believes that violence can affect election plans.

“The protesters are a group of children, who attacked the security forces, which is a red line, and could delay the elections,” Hamad said.

The army says it wants to transfer power to a civilian parliament and president, but many citizens are dissatisfied with the pace of transition and the will of the military junta.

But the protesters have disrupted Friday on the proposed principles for the constitution, where the military budget will not be considered by the civil authorities. They fear that the army would be formed as a state within a state.

Reflects the outpouring of the power of Islamist forces in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood in particular, freedom and justice for the party. Head of the group called for restraint in the wake of the clashes on Saturday, state media said.

The protest took place the next day, when hundreds of Coptic Christians marched in Cairo, was attacked by unknown assailants. At least 32 people, including two policemen, were injured.

They were heading to Tahrir Square in Cairo to commemorate the death of pro-Coptic demonstrators died in clashes in Cairo last month.

Problems between the Muslim majority of Egypt and the Copts have increased in recent months, with a series of violent clashes reported between the two groups.

The protests are also stretched in the United States on Saturday, when demonstrators gathered in the capital to oppose the military coup in Egypt.

Demonstrator, Mahmoud Amin, a member of a group called “Egyptian Organization for change in the United States,” said the Egyptian army, “the taking of civilians before military courts, and we oppose.

“They’re torturing a lot of young revolutionaries who are accused of treason, and this is not true,” he said.

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