CAIRO - Sporadic clashes broke out overnight between protesters demanding the ouster of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and security forces outside the presidential palace.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the confrontations, which follow violent clashes on Friday outside the presidential palace that left one person dead.
The 23-year-old was shot dead and 91 people were injured, and the interior ministry said 15 of its men were wounded.
Late on Saturday several hundred mostly young protesters again gathered outside the compound and threw stones and petrol bombs at its walls.
One protester said they were there to pay homage to the young man killed the day before, and they chanted "Leave!" and "The people want the regime to fall!" - slogans used two years earlier to oust former president Hosni Mubarak.
Security forces deployed outside the palace grounds fired teargas when a group of protesters tried to storm one of the gates, witnesses said, but republican guards inside the compound did notintervene.
"We no longer respond to provocation from certain protesters outside the palace," the commander of the guards, General Mohammed Ahmad Zaki, was quoted as saying.
The main opposition National Salvation Front (NSF), meanwhile, called for the resignation of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim after a video showing a naked man being beaten by police went viral on the Internet.
The beating was "an inhumane spectacle ... no less ugly than the killings of martyrs, which is considered a continuation of the security force's programme of excessive force," the opposition bloc said.
Ibrahim has ordered a probe to "hold accountable" those responsible and will resign if "that's what the people want", his office said.
The presidency also scrambled to contain fallout from the footage.
A statement said thepresidency was "pained by the shocking footage of some policemen treating a protester in a manner that does not accord with human dignity and human rights" but described the incident as an "isolated act". Sapa-AFP
Clashes outside president's palace
CAIRO - Sporadic clashes broke out overnight between protesters demanding the ouster of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and security forces outside the presidential palace.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the confrontations, which follow violent clashes on Friday outside the presidential palace that left one person dead.
The 23-year-old was shot dead and 91 people were injured, and the interior ministry said 15 of its men were wounded.
Late on Saturday several hundred mostly young protesters again gathered outside the compound and threw stones and petrol bombs at its walls.
One protester said they were there to pay homage to the young man killed the day before, and they chanted "Leave!" and "The people want the regime to fall!" - slogans used two years earlier to oust former president Hosni Mubarak.
Security forces deployed outside the palace grounds fired teargas when a group of protesters tried to storm one of the gates, witnesses said, but republican guards inside the compound did notintervene.
"We no longer respond to provocation from certain protesters outside the palace," the commander of the guards, General Mohammed Ahmad Zaki, was quoted as saying.
The main opposition National Salvation Front (NSF), meanwhile, called for the resignation of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim after a video showing a naked man being beaten by police went viral on the Internet.
The beating was "an inhumane spectacle ... no less ugly than the killings of martyrs, which is considered a continuation of the security force's programme of excessive force," the opposition bloc said.
Ibrahim has ordered a probe to "hold accountable" those responsible and will resign if "that's what the people want", his office said.
The presidency also scrambled to contain fallout from the footage.
A statement said thepresidency was "pained by the shocking footage of some policemen treating a protester in a manner that does not accord with human dignity and human rights" but described the incident as an "isolated act". Sapa-AFP
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