Egypt: Morsi supporters fightback as thousands take to the streets

Thousands of supporters of Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi have taken to the streets in the largest protests in recent weeks. Clashes between police and Muslim Brotherhood supporters have broken out in several cities, and at least six people are reported to have been killed. The Muslim Brotherhood is demanding the reinstatement of Mohammed Morsi as Egypt's President, after he was overthrown in a military coup and his cabinet was replaced by an army-backed interim government. Since his removal from power, Mr Morsi has been held at an undisclosed location by the army and on Thursday, police detained the secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party Mohammed al-Beltagi. He is just one of dozens of Brotherhood officials who have been arrested in recent weeks. On Friday Morning, just after prayers, around 500 protesters left Cairo's central Sahib Rumi mosque, chanting "The interior ministry are thugs" and "Egypt is Islamic, not secular" and, by mid-afternoon, thousands people had joined the march as it headed through several Cairo districts. The interior ministry had warned that security forces had the right to use live ammunition against protesters if they attacked public institutions. However, its reported that the protest was generally peaceful in comparison to recent unrest when  violence broke out after the army killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters at a protest camp near Cairo.