Egyptian Protesters Tear Down Cement Wall Built To Block Them From Reaching Parliament

Egyptian protesters gather near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2012. Egypt’s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters on Thursday when they tried to tear down a cement wall built to prevent demonstrators from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building. The violence which was soothed hours later in central Cairo comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2012. <AP Photo/Hussein Tallal>

People walk past buildings of Zagazig University, where Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi used to work, in Zagazig, Egypt, Jan. 23, 2013. Zagazig, located in the east part of the Nile Delta, is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia. On the occasion of the second anniversary of the massive demonstration toppling former President Hosni Mubarak, many governorates are planning new protests, aiming to show their anger toward Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood whose electoral muscle put Morsi into office. But people in Zagazig, mostly members of the Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, launched a nationwide campaign dubbed “Revolution of Construction”, calling on Egyptians to unite behind Morsi for a better Egypt. <Xinhua/Li Muzi>